མོན་མོ། MonmoProject

13/01/2025

Lama Tshering - who oversees Choechongtse Temple inspects the renovation work with Monmo Project's Tshering Choden.

The local building team has made great progress on the renovations!

12/01/2025

Hard work continues at Choechongtse Temple and rapid progress is made on the retreat cabin renovation. All thanks to the generous support of all who donated and shared this campaign!

20/12/2024

Work has started!

We transfered funds when we got halfway through our funding drive and Lama Tshering put the kind donations of our supporters to work straight away!

Now we have hit our fundraising goal we will transfer the funds as soon as they clear and the Retreat Cabin Renovation will be able to be completed fully.

We are so happy and grateful for the generosity of our supporters on this project and will post updates as they come in.

21/11/2024

As you can see here the retreat house near Choechongtse Temple in the mountains or Paro needs a lot of work. The conditions have been very rudimentary even for the mountains of Bhutan. However since the 18th Century great yogis and practitioners have used this retreat house to deepen their practice and bring benefit to themselves and others.

Monmo Project wants to raise the funds to provide a much needed renovation and modernisation so that yogis and monks can continue to use the retreat house for years to come.

In celebration of Lhabab Duchen this year, please consider donating to our fundraiser 🙏🙏🙏

10/11/2024

མོན་མོ། Monmo Project are raising funds to renovate and refurbish the retreat cabin at Choechongtse Temple in Paro Bhutan.

Choechongtse Temple is a small 400 year old temple in the mountains of Paro in Bhutan found on the trail to the Sacred Place of Bumdrak. It is overseen by Lama Tshering and hosts sincere dharma practitioners for special retreats, including the famous three year retreat.

Last year, through the kind and generous donations of our supporters, མོན་མོ། Monmo Project was able to fund the installation of electrical lighting for the first time (since it was built 400 years ago) to this remote but special temple. We also provided generators and rice cookers to support the retreatants of the temple.

This year we are hoping to raise 6000 US dollars to provide much needed renovation and refurbishment to a small retreat house near the temple. The retreat house was first built in the 18th century by Drukthop Jempa Gyeltshen and since then many Drukthop (Saint/Yogi) have lived there in deep retreat.

མོན་མོ། Monmo Project seeks to raise funds to ensure that yogis can continue to deepen their practice in this retreat house for many more decades to come by funding extensive and essential renovations to the retreat house.

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09/11/2024

Please support our new campaign to rennovate the retreat house at Choechongtse Temple

མོན་མོ། Monmo Project are raising funds to renovate and refurbish t… མོན་མོ། Monmo Project needs your support for Choechongtse Temple Retreat House Renovation

09/11/2024

Who is Monmo Tashi Khyidren?

Monmo Tashi Khyidren (མོན་མོ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྤྱི་འདྲེན། mon mo bkra shis spyi ‘dren), also known as Tashi Chidren, was an 8th century princess of Bumthang in Bhutan. She was born with the name Tashi Khyeudren, whose name was later changed to Tashi Chidren after she became the disciple of Yeshe Tsogyal, a great yogini. At the age of 13, Tashi Khyeudren met Yeshe Tsogyal who was meditating in a cave in Bhutan, and she was so deeply impressed by the yogini's wisdom and spiritual power that she became her lifelong disciple.

Under Yeshe Tsogyal's guidance, Tashi Khyidren developed a strong devotion to the dharma and eventually became one of the five great spiritual consorts of Padmasambhava, the founder of Tibetan Buddhism. Padmasambhava took her as his consort to perfect the Vajrakilaya practices, which ensured the flourishing of the Buddhist teachings in Tibet.

Tashi Khyidren played a crucial role in spreading the teachings of Vajrayana in Bhutan and is famous for her spiritual accomplishments. According to legend, she transformed herself into a flying tigress that Guru Rinpoche rode upon in his manifestation as Dorje Drollo when he flew to the Tigers Nest, also known as Paro Taksang, where they practices the Vajrakilaya practices together.

Monmo Tashi Khyidren's life and wisdom have been an inspiration to many, and her legacy continues to be celebrated in Bhutan and beyond. She is revered as a great female master and a symbol of devotion, spiritual power, and the importance of women's role in the transmission of Buddhist teachings, and is the inspiration behind མོན་མོ། MonmoProject.

10/12/2023

The young monks of Chendebji temple stand in front of of the famous Chendebji Stupa with brand new winter clothing supplies procured by Monmo Project through the donations or our supporters around the world. Each monk has received 2 sets of thermals, a winter jacket, a winter hat, and warm socks in time for the cold Bhutanese winter.
Thank you to all who support our fundraiser!

07/12/2023

Tshering Choden from MonmoProject delivering the winter clothing supplies to Khenpo Tashi Palden.

17/11/2023

Chendebji monks

We are currently in the process of procuring the winter items for the monks using the funds raised in our recent campaign

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10/11/2023

The roof of Choechongtse temple being refurbished due to funding made available through our Choechongtse Temple fundraiser.

The generosity of our donors across the world has provided essential support to the practitioners of this 400 year old temple - that before our campaign did not have electricity for it’s beautiful Shrine room.

04/11/2023

The Lights are on at Choechongtse Temple!

Here is Choechongtse Temple with light. Thanks to all who supported our campaign, the remote Choechongtse Temple has electricity for lighting and more!