This beautiful Institute in Manduwala, is about an hour's drive to Dehra Dun. It is near the Ngor-Ewam Monastery, where H.E. Luding Khenchen Rinpoche resides.

 

It used to be a Retreat Centre and is now converted to a training Institute for the nuns under the auspice of Venerable Khenpo Gyatso, principal of Sakya College, Mussorie, India.

The first batch of 35 nuns from Sakya Nunnery who were handpicked will have the historic opportunity to study under Khenpo Gyatso when the educational funds are finalised. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"We have long been thinking of establishing such an institute where the nuns particularly from Sakya tradition can get the opportunity to study advanced Buddhist studies like their compatriot monks. And we believe, if successful in our mission within the next decade or so, we will be able to produce at least a handful of erudite nuns capable of taking the responsibility of abbess. In this way they become self-reliant without seeking any academic help from male abbots, as is the case now. Except for Sakya, all the other Tibetan Buddhist traditions had already made this possible for their respective nuns."