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		<title>LUIGINA DE BIASI PREMIATA IN ITALIA</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Il premio Civilitas al prefetto Manganelli
Riconoscimento alla polizia, ecco gli altri dodici vincitori
di Salima Barzanti
Il premio Civilitas al prefetto Manganelli
Riconoscimento alla polizia, ecco gli altri dodici vincitori
di Salima Barzanti

CONEGLIANO. Il premio Civilitas 2011 va alla Polizia di Stato, nella mani del suo capo, Antonio Manganelli. La cerimonia si terrà sabato 29 ottobre alle 10.30 al [...]]]></description>
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<h2>Il premio Civilitas al prefetto Manganelli</h2>
<h3>Riconoscimento alla polizia, ecco gli altri dodici vincitori</h3>
<p>di Salima Barzanti</p>
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<div id="attachment_2047" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 265px"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Antonio-Manganelli.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-2047" title="Antonio Manganelli" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Antonio-Manganelli.jpg" alt="Antonio Manganelli" width="255" height="381" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Antonio Manganelli</p></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;">CONEGLIANO. Il premio Civilitas 2011 va alla Polizia di Stato, nella mani del suo capo, Antonio Manganelli. La cerimonia si terrà sabato 29 ottobre alle 10.30 al Teatro Accademia. «Mai come in un momento di crisi profonda di un paese &#8211; spiega il priore Sara Meneguz &#8211; non possiamo leggere il tessuto sociale della nostra comunità ignorando la sua dimensione istituzionale. Per questo abbiamo voluto premiare la Polizia di Stato, istituzione che cerca un contatto diretto con il cittadino ed è attiva nella difesa della sicurezza». L&#8217;edizione 2011 è stata presentata ieri mattina in municipio, alla presenza del sindaco Alberto Maniero e della presidente della Dama Castellana, Anna Maria Gasparini, oltre che dai collaboratori dell&#8217;associazione. Per la sezione «Alla memoria» il riconoscimento riconoscimentova a Arturo Bernardi, ex sindaco di Santa Lucia e presenza attiva del Rotary Club Conegliano; Luigi Gallina, coneglianese antesignano organizzatore ed esecutore di numerosi viaggi umanitari a favore delle popolazioni dell&#8217;Ex Jugoslavia e attivo volontario a San Pio X e nell&#8217;Auser; Pietrantonio Mariani, preside della scuola Media Brustolon per vent&#8217;anni e promotore dello sport come fondamentale nella formazione dei ragazzi; conte Marco Marcello Del Majno di Fontanelle, tra pionieri dell&#8217;agricoltura trevigiana sempre nel rispetto dell&#8217;ambiente, presidente del Consorzio Maiscoltori del Piave e dell&#8217;Istituto Sperimentale Viticoltura di Conegliano, benefattore in silenzio per il completamento degli studi dei figli di molti compaesani. Per la sezione Giovani Emergenti, il premio va a Francesco Vidotto, già brillante manager del settore contabile, oggi eclettico scrittore (con il suo terzo romanzo, Siro, ha vinto il Premio Una Montagna di Libri di Cortina d&#8217;Ampezzo). Ecco infine i premiati di Civiltà nella comunità: Luigina De Biasi, 61enne di Miane, insegnante elementare per oltre 20 anni nella scuola, volontaria in India dove ha costruito tre scuole e con il collega Valentino Giacomin ha inventato il metodo didattico dell&#8217;educazione integrata «progetto Alice»; Adriano De Stefano, 60enne santalucese, presidente dell&#8217;Enpa provinciale; Ivan Gerotto, 66enne fabbro coneglianese, presidente per diversi mandati dell&#8217;Associazione Artigianato Trevigiano e membro della sezione locale del Cuamm, Medici per l&#8217;Africa; Giuseppe Renato Rigo, 67enne coneglianese, attivo in parrocchia, nella San Vincenzo e tra gli organizzatori della Conegliano Pedala con gli Amici Sportivi S.Martino; Marcello Roiter, 72enne di Godega, attivo nel sociale e nella cura dell&#8217;inserimento degli stranieri nella comunità locale; Maria Grazia Santolin, marenese di 52anni, presidente dell&#8217;associazione italiana persone Down-sezione della Marca Trevigiana; Giuseppe Zago, 66enne di Merlengo di Ponzano Veneto, che durante la guerra in Serbia e Kosovo ha allestito centri di aiuto e con la comunità di Merlengo ha ricostruito la casa di una famiglia sfortunata con 2 figli disabili.</p>
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		<title>PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD WRITE ABOUT ALICE PROJECT</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOH President Called to High Level Meeting at UN HQ


Friends of Humanity President and Founder, Graziella Zanoletti received an urgent call to attend a high-level meeting on behalf of FOH partner Alice Project. The meeting &#8220;Happiness &#38; Wellbeing: Defining a New Economic Paradigm&#8221; was called by Jigmi Y. Thinley, Prime Minister of the Royal Government [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/photo-1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2037" title="photo 1" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/photo-1-300x203.jpg" alt="photo 1" width="300" height="203" /></a></p>
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<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Friends of Humanity President and Founder, Graziella Zanoletti received an urgent call to attend a high-level meeting on behalf of FOH partner Alice Project. The meeting &#8220;Happiness &amp; Wellbeing: Defining a New Economic Paradigm&#8221; was called by Jigmi Y. Thinley, Prime Minister of the Royal Government of Bhutan, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on April 2nd, 2012. Graziella Zanoletti was asked to attend and represent the Alice Project because the founders of the project, Valentino Giacomin and Luigina de Biasi, could not attend.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">The meeting organizers hope &#8220;that the high-level meeting will call for the world’s best experts, based on the best available knowledge to work together over the next year to hammer out the details of the measures, accounts, and financial mechanisms required for a happiness-based economic model for the consideration of the international community. Such a model, or aspects of it would then be available for incorporation into national policies on a voluntary basis.&#8221; These policies were called in response to the UN General Assembly resolution A/65/L.86, introduced by Bhutan with support from 68 Member States, and unanimously adopted by the UN, calling for for a “holistic approach to development” aimed at promoting sustainable happiness and wellbeing.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Read more about Bhutan&#8217;s Input for the Draft Outcome for Rio +20 here.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Read more about Prime Minister Thinely&#8217;s statements here.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">Friends of Humanity President and Founder, Graziella Zanoletti received an urgent call to attend a high-level meeting on behalf of FOH partner Alice Project. The meeting &#8220;Happiness &amp; Wellbeing: Defining a New Economic Paradigm&#8221; was called by Jigmi Y. Thinley, Prime Minister of the Royal Government of Bhutan, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on April 2nd, 2012. Graziella Zanoletti was asked to attend and represent the Alice Project because the founders of the project, Valentino Giacomin and Luigina de Biasi, could not attend.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">The meeting organizers hope &#8220;that the high-level meeting will call for the world’s best experts, based on the best available knowledge to work together over the next year to hammer out the details of the measures, accounts, and financial mechanisms required for a happiness-based economic model for the consideration of the international community. Such a model, or aspects of it would then be available for incorporation into national policies on a voluntary basis.&#8221; These policies were called in response to the UN General Assembly resolution A/65/L.86, introduced by Bhutan with support from 68 Member States, and unanimously adopted by the UN, calling for for a “holistic approach to development” aimed at promoting sustainable happiness and wellbeing.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #800000;">Read more about Bhutan&#8217;s Input for the Draft Outcome for Rio +20 here.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #800000;">Read more about Prime Minister Thinely&#8217;s statements here.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Graziella Zanoletti will attend the meeting to report on the unique, sustainable aspects of the Alice Project schools and to provide a solution to address global issues. Alice Project leader Valentino Giacomin wrote a report outlining the information Ms. Zanoletti will present at the meeting: &#8220;Alice Project proposes to offer a holistic education in order to fill the inner void that makes the students unhappy&#8230;the students follow and practice the teachings of Patanjali, automatically they develop linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalistic, and emotional intelligence.&#8221; Their unique education system perfectly matches the harmonious development, based on inner wellness, knowledge and collective happiness, that the Kingdom of Bhutan advocates.</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Valentino Giacomin goes on to indicate that these unique efforts have resulted in Alice Project students showing  &#8221;happiness.&#8221; He states &#8220;This is what everyone who visits the schools can assess (qualitative evaluation). This kind of Education makes the students less prone to dream high and being more realistic about their target in life, choosing works related to Education (teachers, social workers, agriculture…). In other words, our students have a chance that other students do not have: if all their career dreams fail (as it happens in 90 per cent of the cases for all the students, who are not able to get a job that fit with their University degree and specialization) they have an inner resource where to take refuge, avoiding desperation, frustration and depression: the treasure of their Self (or Soul for religious people). This inner security makes them more flexible and creative, helping them to find, anyhow, a way to survive.&#8221;</div>
<div>By attending the meeting, Graziella Zanoletti proves that Friends of Humanity supports projects that stand on the cutting edge of development and offer holistic solutions to global issues. Furthermore the call from the Royal Government of Bhutan indicates that non-profit organizations, such as FOH, are playing a key role  creating a sustainable future for all people.</div>
<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #33cccc;"><em><span style="color: #3366ff;">The Alice Report: An Indian Revelation </span></em></span></h1>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #33cccc;"><em><a style="color: #33cccc; font-style: italic;" href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/photo-4.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2042" title="photo 4" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/photo-4.jpg" alt="photo 4" width="628" height="144" /></a></em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000000;">The Alice Report:  An Indian Revelation</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Maurice-Gibbons </strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"> What a surprise! My wife, Leslie, and I were on the last day of our trip to India that took us from Varanasi on the Ganges River to Sarnath where Buddha gave his first sermon to his disciples. The agenda in Sarnath called for a temple visit, but we asked our guide to take us to the village instead. We were templed-out and wanted to get a feeling for the day-to-day life of village people. As we walked through the narrow streets, we suddenly saw a sign that said, “The Alice Project: Universal Education.” Following the arrows, we came upon the school and were soon welcomed into a vibrant classroom of children in light blue uniforms. A few minutes later we were joined by the school’s Italian co-founder, Luigina de Biasi. Everywhere we looked there were large posters with statements that said in effect, “Your mind creates the reality you experience. Know your mind and direct your life.” It was clearly, in my mind, an SDL school. And that is the surprise: how could we, on our last day, seemingly by pure accident, stumble upon a school with so much to teach us about my major commitment in education? As we talked to Luigina, that wonder grew.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"><a style="color: #000000;" href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/photo-5.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2043" title="photo 5" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/photo-5.jpg" alt="photo 5" width="174" height="243" /></a>We had many questions and little time, but here are the highlights of what we found out. The school is one of three schools established in India by Valentino Giacomin, an innovative Italian educator who was challenged by the Dalai Lama to become involved. The school has 900 students from kindergarten to grade twelve. Students follow a unique program designed to develop their inner awareness and self-management until they reach grade nine, when they switch to regular courses in preparation for state board exams, which Giacomin calls “a necessary compromise”.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The name, the Alice Project, refers to Alice in Wonderland as a metaphor for the inner journey of self-understanding and direction that the school guides its students through. Giacomin says “We all need to do what Alice did, but in a protected way; we need to know ourselves.” They had few materials for teaching this program, so Giacomin wrote them or had them written, books and teaching materials that they could use to “cultivate their wisdom and kindness.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Their approach is spiritual, they say, but not religious. They teach thinking about yourself, your feelings, and your actions. They do it through such practices as stories to discuss, meditation, and yoga; and what they call integrated universal learning which includes dance, drama, mythology, ethics, farming and philosophy.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I worried about the idea of spirituality, but Luigina said,”We use whatever methods work for us, but as you look at our pupils you will see Sikh sitting next to Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Christian.” Learning to live at peace with yourself is the key to peace, understanding and tolerance in the world.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As we were preparing to leave, Luigina said, “It’s too bad you can’t come to our daily assembly tomorrow. Sitting in the courtyard with 900 students meditating is an overwhelming experience.” We may have to go back for that.</p>
<p>You can learn more about this program at their website  www.aliceproject.org</p>
<p>This site offers two scholarships of 5000 rupees each to students of this school.</p>
<p>http://www.selfdirectedlearning.com/</p></div>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our Alice: (Glimpse from the students’ hearts)
Compositions of our students from class 10th and 12th.
Compositions of our students from class 10th and 12th.
 
Name- Lakshmi Kumari- (Class 12th)
I am studying in this school form LKG. Whatever I have now all these are form this school, whether it is knowledge or the teachings about our life. [...]]]></description>
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<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Compositions of our students from class 10th and 12th.</div>
<h2><span style="color: #3366ff;">Compositions of our students from class 10th and 12th.</span></h2>
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<div id="attachment_1623" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 109px"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Laxmi-Kumari.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1623   " title="Laxmi Kumari" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Laxmi-Kumari.jpg" alt="Laxmi Kumari" width="99" height="151" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Laxmi Kumari</p></div>
<p>Name- Lakshmi Kumari- (Class 12th)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">I am studying in this school form LKG. Whatever I have now all these are form this school, whether it is knowledge or the teachings about our life. I am very lucky to get all these. I will never forget the teachers and their teachings whole my life. Here I never felt that I am in a so called school, this place was always as a family for me. It seemed to me as if was my own family. People here like our principal, he director and the teachers they all were always with us as our own parents. I am very happy with all them. I got a full developed education here. I can say that it was a complete education. I do not want to go from the school .It seems that I am going to lose something which was very important. There is no doubt that the teachings which we got form here have given a new turn to our lives. We feel our selves more happy than all the other students form other schools.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">I pray that may this school get success day by day. I will miss this school very much. Here it is more focused about the spiritual wisdom than the bookish knowledge. I will follow all these teachings which we received here in my life. Not only this I will teach and share these teachings with others too. There are so many feelings and expressing all them on a paper is not that easy.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">I want to thank all the teachers and who ever have taught to us in some may years. They have made our lives so happy and peaceful that I am feeling very sad we will leave this school. May be in future I will not get any other chance to get this kind of wisdom any other place. I am very lucky that I was a student of this school for so many years……</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Thank you to all the teachers, principal and the director.</p>
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<div id="attachment_1625" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 116px"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Shyam.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1625  " title="Shyam" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Shyam-216x300.jpg" alt="Shyamashrey Patel" width="106" height="147" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Shyamashrey Patel</p></div>
<p>Name- Shyamashrey Patel- (Class 12th)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">At first homage to everyone who is going to read my experience. I start with a deep thank form the bottom of my heart. I have been studying here from 14 years. Today is my last day here.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Here I learned many things related to the subjects but the most important was the teachings which I received about how to live our lives. I learned about Yoga, meditation, awareness all they are the real teachings for one’s life. Not the bookish knowledge which will last for a very short period of time.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The director Mr. Valntino although he is not an Indian, is trying his best to preserve our culture and traditions, he is doing a great job and we thank him for giving us such opportunities to study in his shelter and we could achieve some knowledge with him. May blessings be always be with us.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">I also thank to all the teachers also who loved us and guided as our own parents and helped us in our very step. I request to them that they forgive us for all our mistakes which knowingly or unknowingly we did in these days.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">All the teachers, students our director and all those who are here will always be in the core of my heart.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><strong>Name- Jyoti Kumari- (Class 12th)</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">I have been studying in this school from Seven years. This is my last year here. The education which we got form here is very precious. Our director Mr. Valentino Ji, whatever he is doing for us, for we children is a very great work.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">What do I write about the education here, it is so deep that it is a very hard thing to express? I cannot express it in my words. Ad they will be always very less. In a student’s life all the things which are required for a good student all we got here. He we just not got only the knowledge but I learned about the spiritualism. The seeds which are sown in our heart. I will always keep these seeds in the garden of my heart so that in future it can grow up and be a tree which shares its fruits to others. May this tree of wisdom give joy and happiness to me and all the other beings? May everyone who is burnt of ignorance come to the shelter of this wisdom tree and feel its joy and bliss.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">What our teachers have given us it is so precious that it only can be felt expressing them in words is very hard. What I say more for me it is like I got a new birth, it’s a new life for me after being here. I learned an art how to live our lives socially, spiritually and in a better way….. what more  I say it seems that whatever have now everything  I got from here. I am not getting words to express myself.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Just  I pray to the almighty that in my life whenever ups and downs come  oh Lord give me such strength that I can get courage to  face all these  problems .</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In the life there will be many obstacles,</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">If it truly say the teachers as you will be very rare</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Whenever we will be hope less</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Only your wisdom will be useful……..</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><strong>Name- Aneeta Patel- (Class 12th)</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">I am very impressed by the teaching method of this school and the teachers are doing really a great job of teaching to the students. Teachers here take care of the students and always inspire the students.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">They prepare students to be a real man, a better citizen who can be a bright future for humanity. The teachings of Valentino sir is really a treasure which he gave to us.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Thank you for everything.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><strong>Name- Nisha Rai &#8211; (Class 12th)</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">I have been studying in this school from class 1.I remember the day when I came here to take admission. I was very afraid and worried. But our principal made me very comfortable. Then he tested me. I passed the test and was admitted in class 1.I was very impress by the school that the school was running also in the evening.  I used to come for studying.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As year by year I passed the classes, I understood the teaching method of our school. In this school the teaching method is very special. Anyone can easily be impressed and want to study here. My school is not like other schools. It’s like my home and I got a lot of love from here. Not only bookies knowledge but real true wisdom was also given to us who are very important for the life. It teaches us how to spend our life .</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Beside this we learned many other important things. I will be really thankful to everyone.</p>
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<div><strong>Name- Rashmi &#8211; (Class 1oth)</strong></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">Introduction:-My name is Rashmi Kumari. I’m a student of class X.I live in Beraipur,Sarnath ,Varanasi.I have been studying in this school for 10 years. I would like to express my feelings and experience in</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">this auspicious farewell occasion.Explanation:-I was about 4-5 years of age, when I was admitted to</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">study. At first I went to the school which is near the Shiv mandir,which was a branch of Universal Education School. I had done my LKG and class I there. Then we were shifted to the main school. At first</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">when I set my foot here, I felt very nervous and scared from the inside off my heart. I used to think that I have come to such a big school. God knows if I could study here or not. But afterward I started feeling comfortable and gradually I became an acquaintance with many faces and thus became friends of many students. I was never beaten up in this school. I have been always punctual with the school</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">activities. The behavior of the teachers:-The behavior of the teachers are worth to praise. They have always taught and care us as their own children. If we commit any mistake they scold us but afterward they make us realize the truth. The teachers always mingle with the student and spent the school hour together happily. My Experience:- My experience being here was always positive. I have</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">never felt far-off from my home being here, least I felt that I was at my home. I have got mental peace and from the special programme and different types of meditation, i have learnt how to concentrate and focus my mind and it helps me a lot. Through concentration we can acquire and achieve success. we can explore into the inner world that exist within our self through meditation. Bhual sir has always me and my class mate in the path of spirituality that had also help me a lot. The director and founder of the school Mr.Valentino Giacomin has taught us innumerous knowledge and wisdom through his special</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">programme. I’m impressed about the priceless charts which recently has been stick in all the class which are  immeasurable knowledge and wisdom are inscribe. The teachers are not allowed to beat any students. This school is fully different from the other schools. Today we are leaving taking a sweet memories, I will miss the school, teachers ..staffs..everything. Conclusion:-My experience being here was always positive .I have received lots of love, care ,knowledge and respect as a student .I pray to all the sentient being residing in all the realms to bless the school and may this school progress in all field.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">Thank you from the core my heart.</div>
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		<title>Spiritual Intelligence: The Unifying force</title>
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Spiritual Intelligence: The Unifying force
Q. Briefly, could you explain the main differences betweenn your school and other schools?
In brief, the traditional schools &#8211; let&#8217;s us call them in this way &#8211; have as their main target an academic success (high marks, high scoring) based on the knowledge of the school subjects (Math, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">Alice Project in brief</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">Spiritual Intelligence: The Unifying force</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">Q. Briefly, could you explain the main differences betweenn your school and other schools?</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">In brief, the traditional schools &#8211; let&#8217;s us call them in this way &#8211; have as their main target an academic success (high marks, high scoring) based on the knowledge of the school subjects (Math, Science, and so on). To achieve this goal, among the ten types (1) of Intelligence  (1. Linguistic  2. Logical-Mathematical  3. Bodily-Kinesthetic  4. Spatial  5. Musical Musical  6. Interpersonal  7. Intrapersonal  8. Naturalistic 9. Existential 10. Emotional) only few are developed (mainly linguistic and logical-mathematical). This uncompleted and partial learning – according to Alice Projects researchers – is the main cause of the crisis of the education all over the world. The students feel that something very important is missed in their education and often react with violence (bullying), depression, indiscipline, and antisocial behavior. Alice Project proposes to offer a holistic education in order to fill the inner void that makes the students unhappy. We have found that in the Howard Gardner’s  list is missed a kind of Intelligence that the yogis in India have developed for centuries: Spiritual Intelligence. In Alice Project Schools we offer the traditional knowledge (using an innovative didactic for several subjects) but integrated with Spiritual Wisdom (the missed subject in other schools). We reached a revolutionary conclusion (after thirty years of researches): Spiritual Wisdom can unify all kinds of Intelligence. In other words, when, for instance, the students follow and practice the teachings of Patanjali, automatically they develop linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalistic, and emotional intelligence.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">For this reason, Alice Project is working in India and Bhutan, because these are the countries where still is possible to find the rare Teachers for an Integrate Education.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">(1) Nota</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">1. Linguistic Children with this kind of intelligence enjoy writing, reading, telling stories or doing crossword puzzles.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">2. Logical-Mathematical Children with lots of logical intelligence are interested in patterns, categories and relationships. They are drawn to arithmetic problems, strategy games and experiments.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">3. Bodily-Kinesthetic These kids process knowledge through bodily sensations. They are often athletic, dancers or good at crafts such as sewing or woodworking.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">4. Spatial These children think in images and pictures. They may be fascinated with mazes or jigsaw puzzles, or spend free time drawing, building with Leggos or daydreaming.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">5. Musical Musical children are always singing or drumming to themselves. They are usually quite aware of sounds others may miss. These kids are often discriminating listeners.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">6. Interpersonal Children who are leaders among their peers, who are good at communicating and who seem to understand others&#8217; feelings and motives possess interpersonal intelligence.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">7. Intrapersonal These children may be shy. They are very aware of their own feelings and are self-motivated.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">8. Naturalistic</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">9. Existential</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">10.Emotional</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">Q. When the students leave the school, what do they bring with them that the other students do not have?</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">The final results of our method have been assessed several times by researchers and psychologists.  For sure, in spite dedicating several hours a week developing introspection, inner growth, self knowledge, mindfulness and awareness, our students are not showing any signs of alienation or inferiority complex (comparing to other students) beside brilliant academic performance. Alice Project students show happiness. This is what everyone who visits the schools can assess (qualitative evaluation). This kind of Education makes the students less prone to dream high and being more realistic about their target in life, choosing works related to Education (teachers, social workers, agriculture…). In other words, our students have a chance that other students do not have: if all their career dreams fail (as it happens in 90 per cent of the cases for all the students, who are not able to get a job that fit with their University degree and specialization) they have an inner resource where to take refuge, avoiding desperation, frustration and depression: the treasure of their Self (or Soul for religious people). This inner security makes them more flexible and creative, helping them to find, anyhow, a way to survive.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">URGENT CALL FOR HIGH-LEVEL MEETING ON</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">“HAPPINESS &amp; WELLBEING: DEFINING A NEW ECONOMIC PARADIGM”</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">AT THE UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">ON 2nd APRIL, 2012</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">The world is at a crossroads. The future of mankind and the planet is at stake. On 9 November the International Energy Agency warned: “Rising fossil-fuel energy use will lead to irreversible and potentially catastrophic climate change.” Despite Rio, despite Kyoto, despite Copenhagen, CO2 emissions rose by 5.3% last year. Humanity is using up natural resources 35% faster than they can regenerate. And in Bhutan and Nepal, we can no longer stave off glacial melting that threatens devastating glacial lake outburst flooding, and shrinking sources of water for hundreds of millions downstream. There is no time to waste. Without immediate action, warns the IEA, by 2017 all CO2 emissions will be “locked in” by existing power plants, factories, buildings and other infrastructure.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">Our global economic system is in rapid melt-down, starting with the financial collapse of 2008 and now manifesting in Europe’s severe and spreading debt crisis. That economic system, based on the totally unsustainable premise of limitless growth on a finite planet, is the direct cause of the very policies that the IEA says are leading us to a calamitous end as evident in the growing frequency and magnitude of man made and natural disasters. And that economic system has produced ever widening inequities, with 20% of the world’s people now consuming 86% of its goods, 84% of its paper, and 87% of its cars, while the poorest 20% consume 1% or less of each and emit only 2% of the world’s greenhouse gases. That gap, coupled with the deep economic crisis, led the International Labour Organization to warn on 30 October that the world faces years of social unrest as economies falter.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">The OECD warned that &#8220;without decisive action the outlook is gloomy.&#8221; But the “decisive action” now required goes far beyond tinkering with the fundamentally flawed GDP-based economic system, which mistakenly counts resource depletion as economic gain. It was instituted at a time when economists did not know the limits of nature’s capacity to support human economic activity, or that human activity could change the climate of the planet to produce what the UNDP calls “the greatest challenge facing humanity.”</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">And yet, this moment presents an opportunity. The world is in need of an international consensus for the creation of a sustainability-based economic paradigm, with wellbeing indicators, national accounting systems that count natural and social capital values to assess the true costs and gains of economic activity, regulatory institutions, and systems of trade and incentives for sustainable production. There is the urgent need for measures to reduce pollution and drastically slow resource degradation while protecting and supporting the world’s most vulnerable peoples.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">The UN General Assembly resolution A/65/L.86, introduced by Bhutan with support from 68 Member States, and unanimously adopted by the UN, called for a “holistic approach to development” aimed at promoting sustainable happiness and wellbeing. It thrust on my small country the responsibility of initiating steps for the furtherance of this resolution. It is therefore planned that key representative leaders from developed and developing nations, along with leading economists, scientists, and civil society and spiritual leaders, come together to issue a clarion call at the UN on 2nd April for a sustainability-based economic development paradigm to replace the current system. To this end, it is hoped that the high-level meeting will call for the world’s best experts, based on the best available knowledge to work together over the next year to hammer out the details of the measures, accounts, and financial mechanisms required for a happiness-based economic model for the consideration of the international community. Such a model, or aspects of it would then be available for incorporation into national policies on a voluntary basis.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">Jigmi Y. Thinley, Prime Minister, Royal Government of Bhutan</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">Alice Project in brief</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; "><strong><br />
</strong></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; "><strong>Q. Briefly, could you explain the main differences betweenn your school and other schools? </strong></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; "></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">In brief, the traditional schools &#8211; let&#8217;s us call them in this way &#8211; have as their main target an academic success (high marks, high scoring) based on the knowledge of the school subjects (Math, Science, and so on). To achieve this goal, among the ten types (1) of Intelligence  (1. Linguistic  2. Logical-Mathematical  3. Bodily-Kinesthetic  4. Spatial  5. Musical Musical  6. Interpersonal  7. Intrapersonal  8. Naturalistic 9. Existential 10. Emotional) only few are developed (mainly linguistic and logical-mathematical). This uncompleted and partial learning – according to Alice Projects researchers – is the main cause of the crisis of the education all over the world. The students feel that something very important is missed in their education and often react with violence (bullying), depression, indiscipline, and antisocial behavior. Alice Project proposes to offer a holistic education in order to fill the inner void that makes the students unhappy. We have found that in the Howard Gardner’s  list is missed a kind of Intelligence that the yogis in India have developed for centuries: Spiritual Intelligence. In Alice Project Schools we offer the traditional knowledge (using an innovative didactic for several subjects) but integrated with Spiritual Wisdom (the missed subject in other schools). We reached a revolutionary conclusion (after thirty years of researches): Spiritual Wisdom can unify all kinds of Intelligence. In other words, when, for instance, the students follow and practice the teachings of Patanjali, automatically they develop linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalistic, and emotional intelligence.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; "></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">For this reason, Alice Project is working in India and Bhutan, because these are the countries where still is possible to find the rare Teachers for an Integrate Education.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; "></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; "></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">(1) Nota</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; "></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">1. Linguistic Children with this kind of intelligence enjoy writing, reading, telling stories or doing crossword puzzles.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; "></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">2. Logical-Mathematical Children with lots of logical intelligence are interested in patterns, categories and relationships. They are drawn to arithmetic problems, strategy games and experiments.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; "></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">3. Bodily-Kinesthetic These kids process knowledge through bodily sensations. They are often athletic, dancers or good at crafts such as sewing or woodworking.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; "></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">4. Spatial These children think in images and pictures. They may be fascinated with mazes or jigsaw puzzles, or spend free time drawing, building with Leggos or daydreaming.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; "></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">5. Musical Musical children are always singing or drumming to themselves. They are usually quite aware of sounds others may miss. These kids are often discriminating listeners.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; "></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">6. Interpersonal Children who are leaders among their peers, who are good at communicating and who seem to understand others&#8217; feelings and motives possess interpersonal intelligence.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; "></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">7. Intrapersonal These children may be shy. They are very aware of their own feelings and are self-motivated.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; "></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">8. Naturalistic</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; "></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">9. Existential</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; "></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">10.Emotional</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; "></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; "></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; "><strong>Q. When the students leave the school, what do they bring with them that the other students do not have? </strong></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; "></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">The final results of our method have been assessed several times by researchers and psychologists.  For sure, in spite dedicating several hours a week developing introspection, inner growth, self knowledge, mindfulness and awareness, our students are not showing any signs of alienation or inferiority complex (comparing to other students) beside brilliant academic performance. Alice Project students show happiness. This is what everyone who visits the schools can assess (qualitative evaluation). This kind of Education makes the students less prone to dream high and being more realistic about their target in life, choosing works related to Education (teachers, social workers, agriculture…). In other words, our students have a chance that other students do not have: if all their career dreams fail (as it happens in 90 per cent of the cases for all the students, who are not able to get a job that fit with their University degree and specialization) they have an inner resource where to take refuge, avoiding desperation, frustration and depression: the treasure of their Self (or Soul for religious people). This inner security makes them more flexible and creative, helping them to find, anyhow, a way to survive.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; "></div>
<div style="text-align: center; ">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</div>
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<div style="text-align: center; "><strong>URGENT CALL FOR HIGH-LEVEL MEETING ON</strong></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; "><strong><br />
</strong></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><strong>“HAPPINESS &amp; WELLBEING: DEFINING A NEW ECONOMIC PARADIGM”</strong></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; "><strong><br />
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<div style="text-align: center; "><strong>AT THE UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK</strong></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; "><strong><br />
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<div style="text-align: center; "><strong>ON 2nd APRIL, 2012</strong><span style="text-align: justify; "> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; "></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">The world is at a crossroads. The future of mankind and the planet is at stake. On 9 November the International Energy Agency warned: “Rising fossil-fuel energy use will lead to irreversible and potentially catastrophic climate change.” Despite Rio, despite Kyoto, despite Copenhagen, CO2 emissions rose by 5.3% last year. Humanity is using up natural resources 35% faster than they can regenerate. And in Bhutan and Nepal, we can no longer stave off glacial melting that threatens devastating glacial lake outburst flooding, and shrinking sources of water for hundreds of millions downstream. There is no time to waste. Without immediate action, warns the IEA, by 2017 all CO2 emissions will be “locked in” by existing power plants, factories, buildings and other infrastructure.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; "></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">Our global economic system is in rapid melt-down, starting with the financial collapse of 2008 and now manifesting in Europe’s severe and spreading debt crisis. That economic system, based on the totally unsustainable premise of limitless growth on a finite planet, is the direct cause of the very policies that the IEA says are leading us to a calamitous end as evident in the growing frequency and magnitude of man made and natural disasters. And that economic system has produced ever widening inequities, with 20% of the world’s people now consuming 86% of its goods, 84% of its paper, and 87% of its cars, while the poorest 20% consume 1% or less of each and emit only 2% of the world’s greenhouse gases. That gap, coupled with the deep economic crisis, led the International Labour Organization to warn on 30 October that the world faces years of social unrest as economies falter.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; "></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">The OECD warned that &#8220;without decisive action the outlook is gloomy.&#8221; But the “decisive action” now required goes far beyond tinkering with the fundamentally flawed GDP-based economic system, which mistakenly counts resource depletion as economic gain. It was instituted at a time when economists did not know the limits of nature’s capacity to support human economic activity, or that human activity could change the climate of the planet to produce what the UNDP calls “the greatest challenge facing humanity.”</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; "></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">And yet, this moment presents an opportunity. The world is in need of an international consensus for the creation of a sustainability-based economic paradigm, with wellbeing indicators, national accounting systems that count natural and social capital values to assess the true costs and gains of economic activity, regulatory institutions, and systems of trade and incentives for sustainable production. There is the urgent need for measures to reduce pollution and drastically slow resource degradation while protecting and supporting the world’s most vulnerable peoples.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; "></div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">The UN General Assembly resolution A/65/L.86, introduced by Bhutan with support from 68 Member States, and unanimously adopted by the UN, called for a “holistic approach to development” aimed at promoting sustainable happiness and wellbeing. It thrust on my small country the responsibility of initiating steps for the furtherance of this resolution. It is therefore planned that key representative leaders from developed and developing nations, along with leading economists, scientists, and civil society and spiritual leaders, come together to issue a clarion call at the UN on 2nd April for a sustainability-based economic development paradigm to replace the current system. To this end, it is hoped that the high-level meeting will call for the world’s best experts, based on the best available knowledge to work together over the next year to hammer out the details of the measures, accounts, and financial mechanisms required for a happiness-based economic model for the consideration of the international community. Such a model, or aspects of it would then be available for incorporation into national policies on a voluntary basis.</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify; ">Jigmi Y. Thinley, Prime Minister, Royal Government of Bhutan</div>
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Dear friends,
I realized that many of you did not know that we have opened the school for local children in  Bodhgaya (Barbatta, Dandawa villages). As you know, we were compelled to shut down the school due to economic problems (our main sponsor from Germany was a victim of the economical [...]]]></description>
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<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">Dear friends,</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">I realized that many of you did not know that we have opened the school for local children in  Bodhgaya (Barbatta, Dandawa villages). As you know, we were compelled to shut down the school due to economic problems (our main sponsor from Germany was a victim of the economical crisis on 2008). We then closed the school when the senior students were ready for class X exams. We got very positive results: all the students brilliantly passed the exams (60% First Division). One student was first among all the students of the District.  For one year we kept the school closed. Then, we decided to open the hostel part of the school for Chakma students. Our Bodhgaya school is recognized by Indian Government (Sanskrit Board) from class IX to class XII and B.A. (University).  Now it is the Exam Centre for Sanskrit students from several Indian States.  So, we decided to accept only students for Senior High School and Degree College. The first batch of 25 Chakma students (class IX) arrived in 2009, from Arunachal Pradesh. Now we have 52 resident Chakma students studying in class IX, X and XI. (We will write a new newsletter about Chakmas and their sponsors). At this time there were no local children in our school. Before Kalachakra Initiation, our President, Tenzin Tsewang, met His Holiness The Dalai Lama (who is the Patron of Alice Project) in South India and talked about our Educational Project and our successful results. When His Holiness came to know that there was not an Alice Project school for local children in Bodhgaya, He asked our President to open again the school and He promised to support it.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">Without delay, we opened the admission for primary school children. The response from the villagers was enthusiastic. To avoid the previous mistakes (almost free of cost education), we are charging 50 rupees monthly, as fees. We realized that it is totally wrong to give something to the kids or their families as charity. They will grow with “beggar mentality” and, of course, they will not respect the “donors”. Nothing should be “free of cost”. What if the families cannot afford to pay 50 Rs.?  In these cases, we offer to the parents jobs in our construction project.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">We inaugurated the new school, for 220 children, two months ago. Ten teachers have been employed.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">During the Kalachakra Initiation, on a special auspicious day, His Holiness’s Secretary called our President informing him to collect H.H. donation for the new school.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">Needless to say we are delighted not only with the donation, but mainly for the direct interest H.H. has for our school.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">Now we have found more friends who have promised to support the new Bodhgaya School. Amongst these are our friends Camilla and Lorenzo, from the Italian Onlus Associazione Anjali who are currently working as volunteers at the Aghor Foundation, in Varanasi. They have kindly offered the smart board and also a contribution for printing new books for the Bodhgaya children, beside teaching religious anthropoly at Sarnath School.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: justify;">Your advice and contribution of any kind are welcome so that this  new “His Holiness Bodhgaya School” becomes a pilot Centre for Spiritual Education integrated with traditional instruction.</div>
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<div id="attachment_1611" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 445px"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Bodhgaya-School-ALice-Project.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1611 " title="Bodhgaya School ALice Project" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Bodhgaya-School-ALice-Project.jpg" alt="Alice Project Bodhgaya" width="435" height="325" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Alice Project Bodhgaya</p></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify; ">Dear friends,</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">I realized that many of you did not know that we have opened the school for local children in  Bodhgaya (Barbatta, Dandawa villages). As you know, we were compelled to shut down the school due to economic problems (our main sponsor from Germany was a victim of the economical crisis on 2008). We then closed the school when the senior students were ready for class X exams. We got very positive results: all the students brilliantly passed the exams (60% First Division). One student was first among all the students of the District.  For one year we kept the school closed. Then, we decided to open the hostel part of the school for Chakma students. Our Bodhgaya school is recognized by Indian Government (Sanskrit Board) from class IX to class XII and B.A. (University).  Now it is the Exam Centre for Sanskrit students from several Indian States.  So, we decided to accept only students for Senior High School and Degree College. The first batch of 25 Chakma students (class IX) arrived in 2009, from Arunachal Pradesh. Now we have 52 resident Chakma students studying in class IX, X and XI. (We will write a new newsletter about Chakmas and their sponsors). At this time there were no local children in our school. Before Kalachakra Initiation, our President, Tenzin Tsewang, met His Holiness The Dalai Lama (who is the Patron of Alice Project) in South India and talked about our Educational Project and our successful results. When His Holiness came to know that there was not an Alice Project school for local children in Bodhgaya, He asked our President to open again the school and He promised to support it.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">Without delay, we opened the admission for primary school children. The response from the villagers was enthusiastic. To avoid the previous mistakes (almost free of cost education), we are charging 50 rupees monthly, as fees. We realized that it is totally wrong to give something to the kids or their families as charity. They will grow with “beggar mentality” and, of course, they will not respect the “donors”. Nothing should be “free of cost”. What if the families cannot afford to pay 50 Rs.?  In these cases, we offer to the parents jobs in our construction project.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">We inaugurated the new school, for 220 children, two months ago. Ten teachers have been employed.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">During the Kalachakra Initiation, on a special auspicious day, His Holiness’s Secretary called our President informing him to collect H.H. donation for the new school.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">Needless to say we are delighted not only with the donation, but mainly for the direct interest H.H. has for our school.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">Now we have found more friends who have promised to support the new Bodhgaya School. Amongst these are our friends Camilla and Lorenzo, from the Italian Onlus Associazione Anjali who are currently working as volunteers at the Aghor Foundation, in Varanasi. They have kindly offered the smart board and also a contribution for printing new books for the Bodhgaya children, beside teaching religious anthropoly at Sarnath School.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">Your advice and contribution of any kind are welcome so that this  new “His Holiness Bodhgaya School” becomes a pilot Centre for Spiritual Education integrated with traditional instruction.</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify; ">valentino</div>
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		<description><![CDATA[A NEW ALICE PROJECT SCHOOL IN BHUTAN
Here the letter we have received from Mauro de Marchi, the secretary of Sogyal Rinpoche,  after returning from Bhutan.
Dear valentino,
this is the school building, they said all the works will be finished to start the teachings by the 1st june, we would need the school or university certificate of [...]]]></description>
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<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Here the letter we have received from Mauro de Marchi, the secretary of Sogyal Rinpoche,  after returning from Bhutan.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Dear valentino,</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">this is the school building, they said all the works will be finished to start the teachings by the 1st june, we would need the school or university certificate of the teacher and a copy of his passport, please can you e-mail me these, i am sending you several photos of this place including the school building the monastery and the house where Ama Damcho (Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche sangyum) live with Nyoshul Khen Yangsi.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">In the first photo behind the school building you will see high up very small in the rocks  the &#8220;tiger nest&#8217; THAKSANG.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">just above the corner of the left side roof you see a small white dot.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">It is a very beautifull place where this school is situated, they will give a room for the teacher and provide food for him as we agreed, the rest computer study books and material travel salary and insurance will be cover by the sponsorship &#8230;.</div>
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<div id="attachment_1608" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 624px"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/IMG_1673.jpeg"><img class="size-large wp-image-1608 " title="IMG_1673" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/IMG_1673-1024x97.jpg" alt="Bhutan " width="614" height="58" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Bhutan </p></div>
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<div>Here the letter we have received from Mauro de Marchi, the secretary of Sogyal Rinpoche,  after returning from Bhutan.</div>
<div>Dear Valentino,</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">this is the school building, they said all the works will be finished to start the teachings by the 1st june, we would need the school or university certificate of the teacher and a copy of his passport, please can you e-mail me these, i am sending you several photos of this place including the school building the monastery and the house where Ama Damcho (Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche sangyum) live with Nyoshul Khen Yangsi.</div>
<div>In the first photo behind the school building you will see high up very small in the rocks  the &#8220;tiger nest&#8217; THAKSANG.</div>
<div>just above the corner of the left side roof you see a small white dot.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">It is a very beautifull place where this school is situated, they will give a room for the teacher and provide food for him as we agreed, the rest computer study books and material travel salary and insurance will be cover by the sponsorship &#8230;.</div>
<div>Mauro</div>
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<div id="attachment_1603" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 440px"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/IMG_1669.jpeg"><img class="size-large wp-image-1603  " title="Bhutan Monastery " src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/IMG_1669-1024x767.jpg" alt="Bhutan Monastery " width="430" height="322" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Bhutan Monastery </p></div>
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		<title>TARA NEWSLETTER SECOND PART</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 04:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yu Lo Koe pa Nunnery
TARA TEMPLE
BUDDHIST EDUCATION CENTER
SINGHPUR, SARNATH, U.P INDIA
Yu Lo Koe pa Nunnery
TARA TEMPLE
BUDDHIST EDUCATION CENTER
SINGHPUR, SARNATH, U.P INDIA
email: yulokoepa2010@gmail.com
Sarnath, Varanasi – Non-stop Tara prayers 24 hours.
HELP THE NUNS OF TARA TEMPLE
 
The nuns of Kopan Monastery in Nepal are in charge of the Tara Temple (Sarnath, Benares) that was donated to Lama [...]]]></description>
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<div style="text-align: center;">Yu Lo Koe pa Nunnery</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">TARA TEMPLE</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">BUDDHIST EDUCATION CENTER</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">SINGHPUR, SARNATH, U.P INDIA</div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: normal; font-size: 7pt; color: #2a2a2a;" lang="EN-GB">email: </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: blue; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB">yulokoepa2010@gmail.com</span></span></div>
<h3><span style="color: #0000ff;">Sarnath, Varanasi – Non-stop Tara prayers 24 hours.</span></h3>
<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">HELP THE NUNS OF TARA TEMPLE</span></h1>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000000;"> </span></p>
<div id="attachment_1588" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 452px"><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/tara.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1588 " title="tara" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/tara.jpg" alt="Tara Temple" width="442" height="234" /></a></span><p class="wp-caption-text">Tara Temple</p></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"><em>The nuns of Kopan Monastery in Nepal are in charge of the Tara Temple (Sarnath, Benares) that was donated to Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Lama Lhundrup &#8211; the Spiritual Fathers of the Project &#8211; by Alice Project School. A successful experience, where dharma is integrated with Education and social engagement.  Sixteen nuns recite day and night Tara’s prayer for Peace in the world and people on need.</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000000;"> </span></p>
<div id="attachment_1589" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 501px"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/guru-ji-a.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-1589 " title="guru ji a" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/guru-ji-a-1024x470.jpg" alt="Lama Zopa Rinpoche blessing the Temple surrounded by the students of Alice Project School.  Right: Lama Lhundrup" width="491" height="226" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Lama Zopa Rinpoche blessing the Temple surrounded by the students of Alice Project School.  Right: Lama Lhundrup</p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><strong><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; color:red" lang="EN-GB">Ways to Help</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;" lang="EN-GB">1) Sponsoring one nun for one day                             <em>Rs50 (Food only</em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;" lang="EN-GB">2) Sponsoring puja for Mandala                                  <em>Rs750 (Torma and Breakfast) (Offering as own will)</em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;" lang="EN-GB">3) sponsoring all the Nunnery for one day                  <em>Rs 850 (Food Only)</em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;" lang="EN-GB">4) Sponsoring 1000 long Tara’s prayer &#8230;.                 <em>17 nuns will recite the prayer and completes</em> <em>in 3 hrs </em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><em><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;" lang="EN-GB"> (                                                                                         Offering money  according to your possibility)</span></em><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 3.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -3.5in; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;" lang="EN-GB">5) Sponsoring one day 24 hrs Tara’s prayer                <em>Rs 1700 (Only food)(Offering money as</em> per <em>own will)</em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 3.25in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -3.25in; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;" lang="EN-GB">6) Sponsoring one month 24 hrs Tara’s Prayer           <em>Rs 51000 (Only food) (offering cash as per</em> own will)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;" lang="EN-GB">7) Sponsoring one nun for month                                <em>Rs 1500 (only food)</em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;" lang="EN-GB"> <img src='http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif' alt='8)' class='wp-smiley' /> Sponsoring one nun for year                                   <em>Rs 18000 (food only)</em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;" lang="EN-GB">9) Sponsoring light offering inside Tara’s Temple     <em>Rs 4 for each lamp</em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;" lang="EN-GB">10) Sponsoring the project of Nunnery in compound of Tara’s land. The estimate cost of the new construction is around 50,000euro (80,000dollars).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;" lang="EN-GB">The donation can be sent in the name of: <strong>Yu Lo Koe Pa  Nunnery, Tara Temple, Buddhist Education Center, Singhpur Sarnath Varanasi (UP) India (<em>Universal Education Alice Society for girls</em></strong>). </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://kopanmonastery.com/"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">http://kopanmonastery.com/</span></a></span><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language:IT" lang="IT">E-mail:- <a href="mailto:v_giacomin@hotmail.com">v_giacomin@hotmail.com</a>, </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:valentino1@rediffmail.com"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-ansi-language:IT" lang="IT">valentino1@rediffmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-ansi-language:IT" lang="IT"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> From foreigner Countries: Awakening Special Universal Education – Bank of India, branch Bodhgaya, Gaya (Bihar)</span></p>
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<h2><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px; "><span style="line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">THE MAP OF THE NEW NUNNERY </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span></span></h2>
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<div id="attachment_1595" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 440px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Map-a.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1595   " title="Map a" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Map-a.jpg" alt="THE MAP OF THE NEW NUNNERY        " width="430" height="286" /></a></span><p class="wp-caption-text">THE MAP OF THE NEW NUNNERY        </p></div>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">New project of constructing the Nunnery in the compound of Tara land has to be started which includes:<span style="white-space: pre; "> </span> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">1)<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Dormitories for 100 to 200 nuns</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">2)<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Guru Apartments for Zopa Rimpoche and Incarnation of Khen Rimpoche.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><span style="line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong>NOTE</strong>: There will be rooms available for   people who would like to make short or long-term retreats. The nuns will attend the guests,  helping also for fire puja. Visitors who just   want to find a peaceful place for a while, meditating, joining the nuns’ puja and prayers are also welcome. The nuns can help practitioners to complete the preliminary practices (prostration, mandala offering, water bowl offering and so on). For the time being, the guests and meditators can find rooms in the compound of Alice Project School for a reasonable price.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong>How to  reach :- </strong></span></span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Yu Lo Koe Pa Nunnery)
A Branch of Khachoe Ghakyil Ling Nunnery
Singhpur, Sarnath,U.P India
email: Taratemple@gmail.com
(Yu Lo Koe Pa Nunnery)
A Branch of Khachoe Ghakyil Ling Nunnery
Singhpur, Sarnath,U.P India
email:-  taratemple@gmail.com
Sarnath,  Varanasi – Non-stop Tara prayers 24 hours.
A DREAM THAT CAME TRUE

The nuns of Kopan Monastery are in charge of the Tara Temple that was donated to Lama Zopa [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">(Yu Lo Koe Pa Nunnery)</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">A Branch of Khachoe Ghakyil Ling Nunnery</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Singhpur, Sarnath,U.P India</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">email: Taratemple@gmail.com</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">(Yu Lo Koe Pa Nunnery)</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">A Branch of Khachoe Ghakyil Ling Nunnery</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">Singhpur, Sarnath,U.P India</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">email:-  <span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">taratemple@gmail.com</span></span></div>
<h3>Sarnath,  Varanasi – Non-stop Tara prayers 24 hours.</h3>
<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">A DREAM THAT CAME TRUE</span></h1>
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<div id="attachment_1533" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 563px"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/11.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-1533   " title="Tara Temple Photo" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/11-1023x540.jpg" alt="Tara Temple" width="553" height="292" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Tara Temple</p></div>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The nuns of Kopan Monastery are in charge of the Tara Temple that was donated to Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Lama Lhundrup &#8211; the Spiritual Father of the Project &#8211; by Alice Project School. A successful experience, where dharma is integrated with Education and social engagement. This is  Valentino’s story of the beginning of the initiative followed by comments from nuns and students.</p>
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<div id="attachment_1538" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 501px"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Lama-Zoma-and-Lundrup-Guru-ji.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-1538  " title="Lama Zoma and Lundrup Guru ji" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Lama-Zoma-and-Lundrup-Guru-ji-1024x542.jpg" alt="Lama Zopa Rinpoche blessing the Temple surrounded by the students of Alice Project.  Right: Lama Lhundrup" width="491" height="260" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Lama Zopa Rinpoche blessing the Temple surrounded by the students of Alice Project.  Right: Lama Lhundrup</p></div>
<h2><span style="color: #ff0000;">The story: Pundits’ Profecy </span></h2>
<div style="text-align: justify;">I still remember the night (it was around midnight)  in 2005 when 9 senior high school students  knocked at my door asking for permission to talk with me. I was surprised by the request at so late an hour of the night. “Must be something very serious” I said to the students. “It is!” they replied. “What’s the matter?”. “Sir” said Brijesh, “we have to inform you that the peaceful atmosphere that there used to be  in our school,  is no longer there.” That was the beginning of a shocking narration of misdeeds, transgressions and wrongdoing from some teachers and people of the administration. The allegations were so serious that I immediately sent an e- mail to Italy, to Geshe Ciampa Ghyatzo for a divination. “Should I close the school?” was my request.</div>
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<dt class="wp-caption-dt"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/School-and-Students.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-1541  " title="School and Students" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/School-and-Students-1024x287.jpg" alt="Alice Project Students" width="574" height="161" /></a></dt>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><em> Left: A glimpse of the  morning assembly area . Right: Students of Alice Project School during the morning meditation session, around the Stupa that was blessed by H.H. the Dalai Lama, who said, “Every time you see this Stupa, remember that it is a symbol of Wisdom and compassion.” The Stupa symbolized the educational vision of Alice Project: integration of knowledge and spirituality.</em></p>
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<h2><em><span style="color: #ff0000;">Pondering a solution</span></em></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I spent the rest of the night going around the Stupa situated in the school compound, reciting Tara’s mantra and pondering a solution. The first decision was to suspend two persons: the school doctor and my secretary. Then the search for truth started. I realized that I was the last chance for the students who tried all the possible ways to change the situation, before knocking at my door. They had already planned the final solution, in case they failed their “mission” even with me. Before leaving my room, one student said, “Sir, if you agree, we can give the unprofessional people in your staff a lesson.” Of course, I told them that it was totally wrong to think to take the law in their hands and their violent reaction could have make things much worse. On the basis of this request, I decided to inspect their classrooms.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Shockingly, I found four baseball bats hidden behind the blackboard. This was a clear sign that the situation was dramatic and on the verge of explosion. Geshe Ciampa Ghyatzo, who always supported our School with his advice and his always perfect divinations, sent his answer, “No need to close the school. Go on!” It was a great relief: there was still hope. It was at that moment that I had an intuition, “May be something was missing in our Educational project! What?” I thought carefully and found the answer.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“We need to put more effort integrating education with academic curriculum and spirituality. It is not enough  practicing yoga, receiving teaching on relative and absolute truth.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Students must put into practice what they learn. How to convince them to be coherent? Religion is the answer. All religions, of course, as Lama Yeshe would say.” It was at that time that we decided to bring the best of all religions inside the school.  As first step we organized: a yaghya for purification, involving all the students, who recited lacks of Gayatri Mantra for several weeks. At the end, we invited about ten pundits for the final fire puja. <em>(Since then and to this day, the students are going on with a daily recitation of Gaytri mantra, guided by a Hindu priest. When they reached the number of one hundred thousand mantra, the priest performs the fire puja).</em> When the puja was completed, I requested the pundits to help me find a right place for a project I had in mind.  “Which project?”.“A Temple dedicated to Mother Tara. I want to do 24 hours on non-stop prayers! We think that only spirituality can help our students to change their behaviour. I believe that very difficult times are coming: global warming, floods, drought, economical crisis, violence&#8230;We need a new way of thinking, beyond our egoistic mind. We have to help our children to find an inner refuge against the external aggression and environmental, social, economical crisis.”</p>
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<div id="attachment_1544" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 378px"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/5.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-1544  " title="5" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/5-1024x575.jpg" alt="We have to help our children to find an inner refuge against the external aggression and environmental, social, economical crisis.”" width="368" height="207" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">We have to help our children to find an inner refuge against the external aggression and environmental, social, economical crisis.”</p></div>
<h2><span style="color: #ff0000;"> Tara: the perfect Deity to save the Earth</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Gayatri-puja-and-Gosel-Lama1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-1547" title="Gayatri puja and Gosel Lama" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Gayatri-puja-and-Gosel-Lama1-1024x495.jpg" alt="Gayatri puja and Gosel Lama" width="491" height="238" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em>Left: fire puja  after Gyatri mantra retreat. . Right:Photo: Gosel Lama, the first President of Alice Project Society. Here the last photo with the students of the school before passing away. Blessing the land where we built the Temple was the last puja performed by Lama.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">“I think Tara is the perfect Deity for this purpose. She is the Great Mother who can help to restore peace in our school and in the mind of people of the villages. Tara is a female energy. She is the Mother who gives life. This is what we desperately need nowadays to save Nature and the world. Beside all this, Tara’s mantra is common among Buddhist and Hindu people. ” I replied.  The pandits checked everywhere around the school and, finally, they stopped at the place where we have a guava garden. They made some mental calculations, then, unanimously they declared: “This is the perfect place for your Temple!”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It was incredible their answer because I had already requested Gosel Lama, our President of the Society, to bless the land. Then, the pundits asked, “Why did you decide 24 hours of non-stop prayers?”. I explained that I was inspired by an article I had read in the Times of India, where the journalist was  narrating the amazing story of a Temple where the saddhus had been reciting mantras day and night, without interruption, for 50 years.  “It was an unbelievable story that inspired me to start as similar project here for the benefit of  my students, their families and all villages around the school” I concluded.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The pundits looked at each other smiling, then they said, “We came from that Temple and we are in charge of that project! Do not worry, [i]you will build the Temple and it will be extremely successful!” they said. That was the miraculous beginning of our Tara’s project! At that time, I had only the dream in my mind and not a single dollar for the construction of the Temple.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Dalai-Lama-with-Valentino-Giacomin.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-1550" title="Dalai Lama with Valentino Giacomin" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Dalai-Lama-with-Valentino-Giacomin-1024x381.jpg" alt="Dalai Lama with Valentino Giacomin" width="614" height="229" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Then, His Holiness the Dalai came to visit and bless the school for the second time&#8230; And we got our miracle, as you can read in the above newsletter, printed in 2008. A  German sponsor offered the total amount of  money necessary for the construction of the Temple, including all the statues and the 108 stupas. ”</p>
<h2><span style="color: #0000ff;">Note about the German sponsor.</span></h2>
<div id="attachment_1552" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 287px"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Board.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1552 " title="Board" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Board.jpg" alt="Tara Temple Board" width="277" height="182" /></a></span><p class="wp-caption-text">Tara Temple Board</p></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I have found her on 2009 just by chance during a H.H. Ayang Rinpoche Powa Course in Bodhgaya. She never allowed me to disclose her name. She was also the main sponsor of our schools at Sarnath and Bodhgaya. “Your Educational vision is unique, &#8211; she said. – I will help you!” Moreover, she helped us discretely, with an incredible generosity. For us she was like Tara. She was continuously helping us until 2008 when international economical crisis seriously hit her that compelled her to stop funding Alice Project and Tara Temple. When we inaugurated the Temple, I have requested her to allow us to mention about the sponsor in our commemorative stone. She said, “Put only the name of my son!” We do not have enough words to thanks the extraordinary woman who is an inspiring example of humility and compassion.</p>
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<h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/10.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-1553" title="10" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/10-761x1024.jpg" alt="10" width="761" height="1024" /></a><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/111.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-1554" title="11" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/111-752x1024.jpg" alt="11" width="752" height="1024" /></a><span style="color: #ff0000;">The beginning of Tara Project</span></h1>
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<div id="attachment_1556" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 501px"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Tara-Students.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-1556  " title="Tara Students" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Tara-Students-1024x699.jpg" alt="Alice project students involved in the project of Tara-Non-Stop-Prayer." width="491" height="335" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Alice project students involved in the project of Tara-Non-Stop-Prayer.</p></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It was a hard task to start the construction of the Temple. The main problem was finding the engineers with suitable knowledge. We were saved by an Italian engineer, a university professor, Massimo Ferraresi, who worked hard for many days making complicated calculations for the main structure, the arches, the pillars, the windows and the veranda. A Nygma Lama, Tenzin Tsoamo was very cooperative and gave us precious advice about the decorations,  good auspicious symbols carved on the stone above the windows and on the arches of the pillars. Monlam Lama, the spiritual adviser of the school, after Gosel Lama passed away, was the main source of inspiration and spiritual help, always encouraging us towards positive thinking, reassuring that Mother Tara would not abandon us.</p>
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<div id="attachment_1558" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 501px"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Lundrup-Guru-ji.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-1558  " title="Lundrup Guru ji" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Lundrup-Guru-ji-1024x377.jpg" alt="Photo: 2010 - Monlam Lama, the spiritual director of Alice Project, with  late Khensur Lundup Rigsel, at Tara Temple." width="491" height="181" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Photo: 2010 - Monlam Lama, the spiritual director of Alice Project, with  late Khensur Lundup Rigsel, at Tara Temple.</p></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Lama made also the drawing of the beautiful big Tara that adorns the altar, and continually gave advise to the Nepalese artist who made the model of the statue. The result is amazing. People say that the statue looks as if it were alive and talking. Lama brought also the remaining 20 small statues from Nepal. The complicated technical problems related to the special window (Romanesque style) have been overcome thanks to the creativity and the hard work of Franco Dal Dosso, an Italian volunteer, who was the director of the carpenter’s team.</p>
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<div id="attachment_1560" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 624px"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Alice-Project-Staff-with-Karmapa-ji.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-1560 " title="Alice Project Staff with Karmapa ji" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Alice-Project-Staff-with-Karmapa-ji-1024x357.jpg" alt="2008 - H.H. Karmapa inaugurated the Temple." width="614" height="214" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">2008 - H.H. Karmapa inaugurated the Temple.</p></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Finally, the Temple was finished. From Nepal we brought also 108 golden stupas  that embellish the walls of the Temple. Thanks to the good office of Ven. Tubten Kelsang, brother of our President, Tenzin Tzewang, special relics have been offered by His Holiness the Dalai Lama Office for all the Tara statues and all the stupas. His Holiness Office also offered the whole collection of Kanghur and Tenghur for the altar. Finally, the Temple was ready.</p>
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<div id="attachment_1561" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 624px"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Guru-ji.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-1561 " title="Guru ji" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Guru-ji-1024x276.jpg" alt="  Some of our visitors. Left: 2009 - Jado Rinpoche, gave Tara’s empowerment and oral transmission of the long Tara’s prayer. 2010 - Minghur Rinpoche taught meditation to the Alice Project students; Thrangu Rinpoche gave oral transmission and brief explanation of Tara’s mantras and several other mantras." width="614" height="166" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">  Some of our visitors. Left: 2009 - Jado Rinpoche, gave Tara’s empowerment and oral transmission of the long Tara’s prayer. 2010 - Minghur Rinpoche taught meditation to the Alice Project students; Thrangu Rinpoche gave oral transmission and brief explanation of Tara’s mantras and several other mantras.</p></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Several Lamas were invited to bless it. The statues have been filled and blessed by Tubten Kelsang and the monks of Gyume Tantric College. What about the prayers? How to start? This was, may be, the most difficult task. Again, Monlam Lama, helped by his niece Tenzin Tsomo, lent a hand suggesting us to bring some Buddhist girls from Arunachal Pradesh.</p>
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<div id="attachment_1562" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 378px"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/four-nuns.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-1562  " title="four nuns" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/four-nuns-1024x674.jpg" alt="Group of volunteer nuns from Arunanchal Pradesh, Tavang reciting Tara Prayer.(17 January 2008)" width="368" height="242" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Group of volunteer nuns from Arunanchal Pradesh, Tavang reciting Tara Prayer.(17 January 2008)</p></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Four volunteer girls arrived with a group of 11 small children from Tawang, in Arunachal Pradesh, under the responsibility of ven. Drukgyal Lama, a student of Tibetan University, in Sarnath. This is how we started. The girls, after one year, received the nuns’ ordination from Monlam Lama.Another nun joined  the core group later.At the beginning, the nuns recited Tara’s prayer for\ few hours a day.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Then, an Italian senior nun, Agata Montevecchi, came as volunteer for several weeks and we decided to take a commitment for 8 hours a day.  That was the real beginning of Tara’s Project Non-stop Prayer. Time passed.</div>
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<div id="attachment_1564" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 501px"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Lama-Zopa-with-Alice-Project.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-1564  " title="Lama Zopa with Alice Project" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Lama-Zopa-with-Alice-Project-1024x357.jpg" alt="Lama Zopa Rinpoche blessing the temple during his visits at Tara temple. (24 Dec 2009)" width="491" height="171" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Lama Zopa Rinpoche blessing the temple during his visits at Tara temple. (24 Dec 2009)</p></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Lama Zopa Rinpoche came to bless the Temple once again on 24 December 2009. The connection started to become stronger and stronger and finally Valentino made a proposal in 2009. The Tara Temple should be offered to Kopan Monastery and Nunnery.  Monlam Lama was the bridge between the Alice Project, Lama Zopa Rinpoche and the main Guru of Kopan Monastery, Lama Lhundrup. An agreement was concluded with the staff of Kopan monastery and the Nunnery, with the supervision of Lama Lhundrup  (see the photo below):</div>
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<div id="attachment_1565" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 403px"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/101.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1565  " title="10" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/101.jpg" alt="31 December 2009- Lama Lhundrup with Monlam Lama, Valentino, the monks of Kopan staff and two of three  nuns of the first group, responsible of Tara’s prayer/" width="393" height="293" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">31 December 2009- Lama Lhundrup with Monlam Lama, Valentino, the monks of Kopan staff and two of three  nuns of the first group, responsible of Tara’s prayer/</p></div>
<p>Tara Temple would be donated with a large piece of land to Kopan Institution, in exchange for the commitment to perform Tara’s prayer continuously for 24 hours for an undetermined period of time. The students of Alice Project School would help the nuns recite the prayers for a few hours a day (6/7 hours). Alice Project offered also to the nuns an old Society, registered a few years before to take care of the bureaucratic problems. Lama Zopa Rinpoche chose the name for the new Society: Tara Pure Land Nunnery (Yu Lo Koe Pa Nunnery), that is a branch of Khachoe Ghakyil Ling Nunnery, in Kopan, Nepal.</p>
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<div id="attachment_1567" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 440px"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/112.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-1567  " title="11" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/112-1024x599.jpg" alt="15 January 2009 - In the photo: the final meeting of Kopan staff and Alice Project representatives, at Alice Project Library. A new Society was offered by Alice Project School to Tara Pure Land Nunnery who became the legal owner of the Temple and a portion of land around the Temple." width="430" height="251" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">15 January 2009 - In the photo: the final meeting of Kopan staff and Alice Project representatives, at Alice Project Library. A new Society was offered by Alice Project School to Tara Pure Land Nunnery who became the legal owner of the Temple and a portion of land around the Temple.</p></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Finally, the big day arrived:  In March 2010 fifteen nuns came from Khachoe Ghakyil Ling Nunnery, Nepal,, guided by a senior nun, Ani Thupten Dekiy, who is a veteran on working for challenging dharma projects.</div>
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<div id="attachment_1568" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 378px"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/12.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-1568  " title="12" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/12-1024x706.jpg" alt="In the photo: the first batch of nuns from Khachoe Ghakyil Ling Nunnery (Nepal) (2010)" width="368" height="254" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">In the photo: the first batch of nuns from Khachoe Ghakyil Ling Nunnery (Nepal) (2010)</p></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">In fact, after completing three years, three months  retreat (the dream of all the dharma practitioners), she was sent to Mongolia for two years (2006/2009) to establish a monastery there. She faced tremendous difficulties. Her enthusiasm and professionalism won the heart of the local community who are still sending messages to convince her to go back to Mongolia.  One year passed.  Unfortunately, our Guru, the father of Tara Project, Lama Lundhrup Rigsel, got sick. After his last visit, on 02 July 2010, when the final agreement  between the Nunnery and the Alice Project was signed, he promised to come back again in December in occasion of His Holiness the Dalai Lama teachings. We never saw him again. He passed away on 7 September 2011, leaving the nuns and the monks in a great  sorrow and distress. Lama had a vision for the nuns at Sarnath Temple. He was thinking of establishing a University for nuns, where dharma, philosophy, English, Tibetan, Hindi and science would be taught.</div>
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<div id="attachment_1570" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 440px"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Lundrup-Guru-Ji-with-Valentino.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-1570  " title="Lundrup Guru Ji with Valentino" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Lundrup-Guru-Ji-with-Valentino-1024x383.jpg" alt="02 July 2010 - Lama Lundhrup with Valentino, inside Tara Temple. Right: Lama meets Alak Rinpoche who did three years retreat in the compound of Tara Temple." width="430" height="161" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">02 July 2010 - Lama Lundhrup with Valentino, inside Tara Temple. Right: Lama meets Alak Rinpoche who did three years retreat in the compound of Tara Temple.</p></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">He was extremely humble and kind but also very practical and down to earth. He was extremely happy with our Educational Project and he requested us to involve also the nuns, teaching them philosophy, meditation and the principles of Alice Project. He gave us his full support and promised to Valentino that all the obstacles he had faced in the past would be over.</div>
<h2><span style="color: #ff0000;">The kindness of Lama Lundhrup</span></h2>
<div style="text-align: justify;">To conclude these notes on the founder of Tara Pure Land Nunnery I’d like to tell  an anecdote as a way to explain the Lama’s the high realisations. When Lama was at our school, we requested him to visit an Ashram (Bal Ashram) in Varanasi whose school is affiliated with our Educational Institution.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Lama accepted. When he was there, one of the 19 boys adopted by the Ashram, was in great pain, because he had been stung by bees. His face and eyes were quickly swelling. Lama asked the boy do go near him and he started reciting prayers.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Then he blew on the face and eyes of the boy, reciting mantras. Miracously, after few minutes, the boy was totally cured! This is what is called “Bodhicitta in action”. This is exactly the role of the Temple: helping people at both levels, material and spiritual.</div>
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<div id="attachment_1571" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 440px"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Making-Puja.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-1571  " title="Making Puja" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Making-Puja-1024x382.jpg" alt="The last batch of the nuns from Kopan Monastery,  making puja at Tara Temple, while  two Alice Project students are reciting Tara’s prayer, in a corner of the Temple.   " width="430" height="160" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The last batch of the nuns from Kopan Monastery,  making puja at Tara Temple, while  two Alice Project students are reciting Tara’s prayer, in a corner of the Temple.   </p></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">In fact, the nuns not only are reciting  prayers for peace in the world, for the long life of the Holy Gurus, for the success of Lama Zopa’s Vision and projects, for the sponsors who helped and are helping the Temple construction and maintenance, the nunnery and the Alice Project Schools (three schools with more than one thousand students), but they are also making special puja for people who are sick or for the dead people of the villages.</div>
<h2><span style="color: #ff0000;">Engagded Buddhism</span></h2>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Recently, on September 2011, a student of primary school passed away. It was a tragedy for the family but also for the school. There is very little that we can do in these cases, apart from offering money for the cremation and mourning. As a school, we chose to mourn our dead without tears, if possible, joyfully, requesting Mother Tara to take care of our children in the difficult time of bardo.</div>
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<div id="attachment_1573" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 440px"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Making-puja-in-tara-temple.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-1573  " title="Making puja in tara temple" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Making-puja-in-tara-temple-1024x387.jpg" alt="31 August 2011. Not only puja in the Temple, but  also active involvement in the life of the villagers. " width="430" height="162" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">31 August 2011. Not only puja in the Temple, but  also active involvement in the life of the villagers. </p></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">So, the nuns are invited to the house of people who passed away to bring the comfort of their prayers, as we can see in the photo above. The body of our little student is lying under a simple bed cover\, surrounded by his neighbours, relatives and classmates.</div>
<div>The nuns put on his head a holy book while reciting the bardo prayers.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">It is a heart-breaking sight! A real example of “Engaged Buddhism”, or “Bodhicitta in action”!</div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/19.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1574" title="19" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/19.jpg" alt="19" width="343" height="208" /></a></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">This is a new chapter for the Kopan’s nuns attempt to integrate dharma practice into the community where they live. Needless to say how deeply grateful for the kindness of the nuns the villagers are. The school and the villagers are very lucky because the nuns have the skill and qualification to performe complicated rituals  for different purposes. As we said, the ani who is in charge of the nunnery, Thupten Dekiy, is highly respected for her intensive dharma practice, her sense of organisation and her determination: the right ingredients for the success. Two years have passed. Now the Tara Project is mature. Day and night 15 nuns and about twenty Alice Project students alternate in the Temple for non-stop-prayer, The first batch of nuns left the Temple and a new one arrived on May 2011.</div>
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<div id="attachment_1575" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 440px"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/groups-nuns.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-1575  " title="groups nuns" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/groups-nuns-1024x766.jpg" alt="                                            Photo: The nuns of the new batch (2011) " width="430" height="322" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">                                            Photo: The nuns of the new batch (2011) </p></div>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"> Comments from nuns and students. </span></h2>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Now, it is time for evaluations and introspection. How do the nuns involved in the project feel? What about the Alice Project students? Here are their comments.</div>
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<div id="attachment_1576" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 311px"><a href="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Dalai-Lama-Sister.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-1576   " title="Dalai Lama Sister" src="http://www.aliceproject.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Dalai-Lama-Sister-1024x685.jpg" alt="                            From left: Tenzin Tzewang, President of Alice Project Society;  Ven. Thupten Dekiy, Jetsun Pema, His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s sister and her husband, Tenpa Tsering.(16 January 2011)" width="301" height="202" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">                            From left: Tenzin Tzewang, President of Alice Project Society;  Ven. Thupten Dekiy, Jetsun Pema, His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s sister and her husband, Tenpa Tsering.(16 January 2011)</p></div>
<div>January 2011. From left: Tenzin Tzewang, president of Alice Project Society;  Ven. Thupten Dekiy, Jetsun Pema, His Holiness the Dalai Lama sister and her husband, Tenpa Tsering.</div>
<div>Writes ven. Thupten Dekiy: It’s been two years now since I was first involved in the Tara Temple. Coming here is very auspicious for me because it was on 20 April, 2010 that we came and on 21 April the responsibility was handed over to me. Somehow, I feel I am lucky because we know that there are 21 forms of Goddess Tara. Though it is very hot in summer yet till today I am living here comfortably by the blessing of our Guru.</div>
<div>I feel fortunate to pay my contribution towards the fulfilment of Lama Zopa Rimpoche, late Khensur Lundup Rigsel and Ven Valentino’s dream. During this interval of time I’ve been through many ups and down but looking at the motivation of all the people working so hard has given me positive attitude towards life. Sometimes when I go to visit the houses in the villages I feel as if we are in a pure land and we have the opportunity to pray to Tara for 24 hrs for world peace. I pay gratitude to my Gurus and Ven Valentino for giving me this opportunity to serve here. I pray and dedicate all accumulated virtues for the happiness of all sentient being and for their peaceful life.</div>
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