Our Benefactors

Drepung Gomang Monastery thanks its many benefactors for their contributions and service to the monastery.  We are naming on this page some of our very special friends and showing their pictures.  If you have been a benefactor to our monastery and you are not recognized here, or if you know of anyone who has been omitted, we apologize for our error and ask that you contact us at once.  Thank you.  
(Kindly note that After the Rinpoches, names are listed in alphabetical order.)

Andreas Kurz with the senior monks of this monastery.  He founded Friends of Drepung Gomang, the first non-for-profit Gomang organization in the America.  In addition, he coordinated the First Tour Group which started the successive tours.

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Bruce Groner and his son (in pic), Wilson Products has helped this monastery by sending donation regularly for last couple of years, the donation that we received from him and other kind sponsors greatly help us in taking care of ever increasing monk population.

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Curtis is a generous person and a close friend of Gomang.  He also hosted the tour group whenever they visit his area.  He has visited the monastery several times and has always given genuine guidance to the monastery. 
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Everyone calls Chela Kunasz and Louise (Shanti) Badriah "Ama La" ("mother" in Tibetan). Disciples of great spiritual master of Sutra and Tantra, late Khensur Rinpoche Tempa Tenzin.   Everyone in this settlement knows them for their kindness, love, and compassionate help to the needy.

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DREPUNG GOMANG INSTITUTE, LOUISVILLE, KY, USA.

Drepung Gomang Institute, Louisville, KY is a sister organization of Drepung Gomang Monastery, South India.  The Center is a  501 ( c ) ( 3 ) non profit organizatin, legal status and having tax exempted status in United States. Board of directors as of 2010 September are Geshe Sangay, Geshe Rabgyal, Keith Schmidt, Jason Holland,  Anne Walter, Michel Siefring, Steve and Beth Beam, Anne Schmidt. The center is the main office of Drepung Gomang Monastery in United States.

Drepung Gomang Datsan Center, Cultural Foundation, Moscow

Drepung Gomang Datsan Center, Cultural Foundation, Moscow, Russia founded in 2011, the cultural foundation will be the official representative of Drepung Gomang Monastery in the territory of the Russian Federation.

Dr. Subhuti Dharmananda is the Director of the Institute for Traditional Medicine.  He is one of the main and oldest benefactors of Drepung Gomang Monastery. Due to his kindness, many projects of the monastery was success.

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Greg Schultz and his family have been very supportive towards the tour and the monastery. He selflessly helped the monastery as the USA National Tour Coordinator for the 3rd Tour group and also assisted every tour group that has come to the USA, acting as the local coordinator (Philadelphia). Upon request from the monastery, leaving aside everything, he flew to Delhi from the USA in 2002 to assist the monks in successfully getting USA visas and also came to India to assist the monks in their visa reappeal in 2008. More than being a tour coordinator, he is above all a friend of everyone at the monastery and a great disciple of Geshe Kalsang Monlam.
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Drepung Gomang Buddhist Center, Philadelphia, USA

Mr. Greg Schultz (Gomang Samdup), a dedicated student of Geshe Kalsang Monlam and as requested by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to dedicate his life to serve and help Gomang, Mr. Greg Schultz with kind guidance from Geshe Kalsang Monlam has set up this new organization in Philadelphia in 2011. This new organization will focus on coordinating the raising of funds for the projects at the monastery.

Janaki is popularly known here as "Ama Janakai."  Besides coordinating the very successful Second Tour, she was a good friend of the First Tour Group.

Jennifer has hosted all three tour groups and recent one in 2011.  She is a tireless worker for the monastery and is always willing to lend a helping hand.

Lee Gingsen and Lee Yishiung.

              Geshe Mepham,    Lee Gingsen              Late Lee Yishiung.

A devoted Buddhist, the couple have pledged to support the monastery, they are disciple of Geshe Mepham and have visited this monastery several times. They have also arranged short visits of our monks to Taiwan which was very successful and lots of funds was able to raised for food foundation and also for emergency medical fund. They have been sending donations to the monastery and have also encouraged other donors in Taiwan to donate for the monastery.

Geshe Kalsang Monlam is a senior monk of this monastery.  His guidance and support are immeasurable. Long Nguyen is a Vietnamese friend known for his dedication towards Drepung Gomang Monastery

Sue Simone (left) with Geshe Lobsang Samdup and Anne Dolma (DGI member)

Sue Simone, US National Tour coordinator . She greatly helped the tour group by coordinating the tour schedules after Carol. She has kindly accepted to help the monastery in future tours. 

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Ama Mary, coordinator for the Fourth Tour Group and dear friend of Drepung Gomang Monastery.  She is a volunteer at the Tibetan Cultural Center and has been finding new sponsors for our monks and collecting sponsorship funds to send the monastery.  She has been very supportive towards our monks and also to this monastery.

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Shojiro Nomura interpreting for His Holiness the Dalai Lama during one of the visits.

Shojiro Nomura, a devoted and dedicated disciple of Khensur Rinpoche Geshe Tenpa Gyaltsen. Nomura has been extending his wonderful support to this monastery for many years. He founded Drepung Gomang Mmba, A Japanese Tibetan Buddhist Association which is an official affiliation of Drepung Gomang Monastery.

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Pam Hamilton and her children Kayla, Cody, Dylan, Sawyer with the tour members that visited her place every year. She has been supporting this monastery for many years and is the local tour coordinator for many years.
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Jennifer White and Students for a Free Tibet have been supporting this monastery for many years and coordinating the tour group of the monastery whenever they visit their area

Please do inform us for any inclusion or omission.

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