From the Teachers

If the mind is still or if the mind is thinking, what is it that's not changing?
~ Lama John Makransky

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Buddhist Social Service

These Buddhist Social Service Organizations, which have relationships with the Foundation for Active Compasssion, have dedicated themselves to helping other beings in different ways.

Click on any of the website images to learn more about these groups and to offer your help or to participate in their work.

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List of Organizations

  • Karuna-Shechen - karuna-shechen.org - medical, social & education services to disadvantaged in Himalayan Region (Nepal, India, Tibet)
  • Buddhist Global Relief - buddhistglobalrelief.org - working towards a world in which poverty has been banished, where everyone can achieve a satisfactory level of education, and where all people dwell in peace and harmony with one another and with the natural environment
  • Pundarika Foundation - pundarika.org - Providing spiritual and material support for a large number of buddhist nunneries in Eastern Tibet and Nepal
  • Project Clear Light - projectclearlight.org - Working to bring peaceful dharma teaching to participating offenders within the Texas Department of Corrections (Texas, USA)
  • Rangjung Yeshe Shenpen - shenpennepal.org - access to healthcare facilities, education, shelter and employment opportunities and improved treatment of animals (Nepal, India)
  • Street Dog Care - streetdogcare.org - medical, nutritional and adoption services for stray dogs (Nepal)