Skydiving for Tibetan Monks

The woman who leads our Dalai Lama India Meditation tours, Lisa Tully, told me that she must be crazy. In about a month from now, she is going to jump out of an airplane. She has a good reason to do this — to help her friends at a Tibetan Buddhist temple in Delhi, India.

The temple serves hundreds of monks who stay there when they are on their way to Dharamsala, to attend teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. But the temple is in a sad state of disrepair, so Lisa has established a campaign to help fix it up.

In order to raise donations, Lisa has made arrangements to go skydiving for charity. Even though she is so afraid of heights that she does not like to look out windows of tall buildings, she is determined to help repair Tara Temple.

The repair work will be managed by the temple’s monks, who will hire local people to do the work. Any funds which may be left over will be donated to lhasocialwork.org, a charity that also works to help Tibetan refugees living in Dharamsala.

Lisa has made a short video that shows the conditions at the Tara Temple now, and illustrate why it needs repairs. You can view it at: http://youtu.be/EU3MHfjrwqo

To get more information about Lisa’s campaign and to make a donation, please visit: http://www.gofundme.com/freetibet

And finally, to see the itinerary of the Dalai Lama Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Tour that Lisa leads along with two monks, please click here.