Lawudo Trek Sangha Fund

We are delighted to launch the Lawudo Trek Sangha Fund to support ordained members of the Sangha to attend the Lawudo Trek. 

As a sponsor, your name will be presented to Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Ven Robina. 

You can make your secure donation to the LT Sangha Fund by making your offering using the donation portal below. All the donations collected through the portal will be offered to sangha to assist with the cost of the trek. If you would like to donate to the LT Sangha Fund using an alternate method, please email hello@lawudo-trek.org so we can make arrangements.

Monks and nuns are welcome to apply for a special discount as we have funds available. Send an email with your expression of interest to hello@lawudo-trek.org.  

DONATE HERE

In 2019, Ven. Chödrön joined the Lawudo Trek. Here she is with Ven Robina after breakfast at Monjo. She kindly led us in a Mahamudra meditation while we were at Lawudo.
Ven. Katy was working at Kopan during our 2018 and 2019 treks. She led meditation in the morning and evenings while we were at Kopan and shared her invaluable first-hand knowledge of Lawudo with us.

Why is offering to the Sangha is so powerful? 

In the past, there was one man who had nothing, but he offered medicinal food just one time to four fully ordained monks. (These were not monks who were aryas and had wisdom directly perceiving emptiness; these were just ordinary Sangha.) Due to the karma of that offering, after he died, he was born as a most powerful wealthy king in India called King Ashoka. That was the result from offering just one time.

Karma expands, and so from one action of charity, the result that one will experience goes on for many lifetimes, many eons. The karma from making charity one time is not just resultant happiness that is received one time and then is finished. This is maybe what many people think, but that’s not correct. One experiences the resultant happiness for eons. It is amazing. Then, depending on your motivation – especially if it is done with a bodhichitta motivation – this one action of making charity can create the cause for you to go to enlightenment.

According to the Tengyur, Buddha said:

For any sentient being, who during the period of my teachings
Makes charity well (even if the material is the size of hair),
For 80,000 eons will experience the great result of great enjoyment;
No pain, no disease, and enjoyment of happiness.
Like that, one will be enriched with all the desirable things.
At the end you can actually achieve the result – the peerless cessation and completion (enlightenment).
After hearing of this great result, who wouldn’t want to collect merit?

This is advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on The Benefits of Offering to Sangha