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The trip will be about 2 weeks to southern India, which will cover Delhi as well as the Dzogchen monasteries of Bangladore and hopefully the Ajanta and Ellora caves and even more exploration in Arangabad. Since I am still participating in school I am not eligible to miss too many days. The date of my departure from America should be on the 26th of December, and the trip would end on the 6th of January.
I will need support from the community in order to educate myself and others in the Buddhist and Tibetan Spiritual Culture. This is not just something that I am interested in, this is a area of spirituality that my mind and heart have been very devoted to, and I plan to take deep into study and apply it to whatever door I may chose to open as a career. This will support the community by bringing my experience of a spirituality on the other side of the planet to my own district and will give them another idea of what others beliefs may be.
I have been a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism for about three years (I started when I was 14 and now am 17). A large portion of my experience motivation as well as teachings that have been given to me have been through a meditation I have been attending this entire period of time. The meditation is held at a residence in Clinton known as the Yeshe Long House and is led by Kilung Jigme Rinpoche, who is also known as Kyabje Jigme Tenzin Chodrak. He is the head of the Kilung Monestary.
The opportunity placed before me is a spiritual as well as educational, and it is also the first time I will have left this country, so no matter what happens the experience will be unforgettable. It's also a spiritual journey because I will be visiting areas of the planet that are not only sacred to the natives but to others outside of their world. This will be a educational experience because the areas I will be visiting have had strong affects and impacts on the history of the religion and its traditions, which are part of what makes Tibetan Buddhism what it is today.
As I said, this is a journey, but it is also a project, and I will bring back what I have experienced as well as what I have learned and endured. Everything that happens during this trip will be recorded through me so what you will hear from me will be my experience and what I have observed. This trip will eventually be reformatted into my senior project and will be presented to my classmates. When displayed elements will be from my journal notes and photographs, video and audio recordings.
I am trying to raise $4,000 before the 20th of December for this project but donations will be accepted until january 10th. Whatever you may contribute, help and/or support, will be used to its full extent in this project.
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