2018 participants in the annual Gelug Examination.
Every year the best scholars from the main Gelug monasteries come together for the annual Gelug Examination. Every year the Lama Tsongkhapa Teachers Fund offers a grant for daily food, travel expenses, and for teacher stipends for the main teachers of the Lama Tsongkhapa tradition. This year 518 monks participated at Gaden Lachi Monastery, India and the grant offered by FPMT was US$21,169.
Participants of the 2019 Gelug Exam at Gaden Lachi Monastery
Stipends were offered to the 139 current abbots, past abbots, and main teachers of the Lama Tsongkhapa tradition. This small offering of money supports these teachers’ basic needs and allows them to be able to focus more of their time on transmitting Dharma to their students at the monasteries and strengthening their own practices.
Participants of the 2019 Gelug Examination enjoying lunch sponsored by the Lama Tsongkhapa Teachers Fund.
These scholars are the future of the Lama Tsongkhapa tradition and it is a high priority for FPMT to support them at this level of their education. Congratulations to all who participated and successfully completed this rigorous exam.
Tremendous thanks to all the donors who have made these offerings possible, every year, for twenty-one years. Please rejoice in this ongoing support to past, present, and future teachers of the Gelug tradition. You are welcome to offer any amount to the Lama Tsongkhapa Teachers Fund to help ensure that these grants continue for into the future.
Since its inception, the Lama Tsongkhapa Teachers Fund, an extension of the Supporting Ordained Sangha Fund, has supported senior teachers each year of the main Gelug monasteries, plus hundreds of monks attending the traditional winter debate and annual Gelug exam.
