The Drikung Samtenling Acharya Nuns Leadership Program provides fellowships
to Tibetan Nuns in India for a year long residency the US to acquire
education and skills for the development of Drikung Samtenling Nunnery and
its 90 nuns. Each fellow will design a project based on her areas of
interest and the current and future needs of the nuns of Samtenling. A team
of experts will create training modules for her to reach her goals, which
she will implement upon her return to India.
The overarching goal of the program is to empower nuns at Samteling and
other monasteries in India. Like their brothers, the monks who serve
internationally, they are essential as future leaders in the Drikung Kagyu
lineage.

As the first Fellow in the Acharya Nuns Leadership program beginning in
August 2018, Ani Yeshe, a graduate of the Samtenling 12 year philosophy
program, will spend 4 to 6 months at Vajra Dakini Nunnery (an affiliate of
Samtenling Nunnery) in Portland, Maine. There she will be immersed in
English language education, assist in Dharma classes and interfaith
activities and visit other nunneries as she refines her individual
Fellowship project. Her goals include teaching Tibetan grammar, translation
and spreading the Dharma.

Following the Vajra Dakini residency, she will attend month long training
modules which will include: web and graphic computer skills, women’s health
care education skills, translation skills, and childhood educational
skills. Individual experts and our centers in various cities will
coordinate these modules during her visit. Acharya Ani Yeshe then returns
to the nunnery in India with expanded skills to share with her community as
they take their seat as Dharma leaders.

Funds are needed in August 2018 to support Acharya Ani Yeshe's housing,
travel, and educational expenses, as well as the visa application of next
year’s Fellow. You will be able to follow her Fellowship activities on
Vajra Dakini's facebook page!

Thank you for your interest and support of Ani Yeshe to attend the
leadership program. This program would not be possible without your kind
and generous support. We are very grateful!

For more information on the leadership program, please visit our website @
http://vajradakininunnery.org/bbb/
History of the Drikung Nuns
http://vajradakininunnery.org/empowerment-of-tibetan-and-himalayan-buddhist-nuns/

GOFUNDME Donation:
https://www.gofundme.com/acharya-nuns-leadership-program