Karma Drubgyu Thargay Ling Nunnery (K.D.T.L.)
Where Tilokpur, India
Founder and Spiritual Lead Freda Bedi / His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje
Lineage Kagyu
Contact
Phone 91-1893-236361
Phone 91-1893-203992
Mobile 91-94593-92724
Mobile 91-94597-52627
E-mail [email protected] / [email protected]
Website http://tilokpurnunnery.com/
About
Built near the cave of the great Indian yogi Tilopa, Tilokpur Nunnery (Karma Drubgyu Thargay Ling) overlooks a small town 40 kilometers from Dharamsala.
It is the oldest Kagyu nunnery outside of Tibet, supporting 90 nuns from Tibet and the Himalayan border regions of India and the Mustang region of Nepal. Tilokpur was founded in 1966 by Mrs. Freda Bedi, a British nun who was ordained by the previous Karmapa.
Tilokpur is a small nunnery and in the past, the nuns had been hampered in their abilities to develop and sustain themselves by the general lack of education.
The Tibetan Nuns Project has helped them start regular classes in Tibetan, Buddhist philosophy, and English. We helped them purchase new books, including Buddhist philosophy and math textbooks. The nuns have also formed a management committee that is administering the internal activities of the nunnery. The office is also better equipped technically with a new computer, fax, and printer, and two nuns have completed a month-long computer training course.