Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Jamyang at Sera Mey Food Fund, Sera Mey Monastic University in Mysore, South India, wishes to convey his heartfelt gratitude to all the Buddhist practitioners and benefactors who, by their donations to the Sera Mey Food Fund during the past years, have made it possible for the 1500 Sangha members to continue their learning and practice of Buddhist Dharma.  

Ever since Sera Mey Monastic University resettled in India, they have sadly lost most of their grass root support from the Tibetan people and have then turned to the solidarity of Buddhist practitioners in the world for their survival.  Sera Mey has been indebted to innumerable Buddhist friends and benefactors who have responded wholeheartedly to Khensur Rinpoche’s appeals for help when Sera Mey went through their most severe food crises (see the list of benefactors of Sera Mey Food Fund at HYPERLINK "http://serameyfund.org"http://serameyfund.org). From Canada, USA, Europe and Asia, the support was tangible with every individual gesture speaking of a common spirit of love and compassion and a strong spiritual commitment to safeguard the monastic institution that has for so long been a place of Buddhist study and transmission of Buddha’s teachings.

                   The food shortage should have been resolved or at least temporarily held at bay and KR would have hoped to bring good news from Sera Mey of progress being made, of food supply becoming more stable and secure for the future. Unfortunately against all hopes Sera Mey has not been granted any reprieve. The economic and political difficulties in India have given rise to severely inflated food prices directly affecting Sera Mey food supply. The effects have been momentously devastating on the frugal budget of the monastery, which from the onset could hardly allocate one dollar of food a day per monk.  Sera Mey is unable to buy enough food as the food prizes of all major staples in their basic diet have doubled and in some cases tripled. A bowl of rice now has become half its size and the same goes for a can of lentils and every other staple like oil, vegetables, etc. The hardships that the Sangha are living through are visible in the sadness of their eyes and their future now seems even more clouded with uncertainty.

                  Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Jamyang at Sera Mey Food Fund on behalf of the 1500 Sangha members at Sera Mey Monastic University would like to appeal to the solidarity of all Buddhist practitioners and benefactors so together we can help Sera Mey through this unending crisis. Your support, however small, would bring the assurance that Sera Mey will be able to continue to subsist and to contribute to the continuation and flourishing of Buddhist Dharma now and in the future for all sentient beings in the world.

                    Please dear Buddhist brothers and sisters do accept our most profound gratitude and may Buddha’s blessings of good health happiness and peace be with you and all sentient beings.

Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Jamyang

Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Jamyang