Registration and Contact

Application

Applications for admission to the second subject onwards must be submitted at least one month prior to the start of that particular subject. (See Schedule)

Applications for admission must include the following:

A completed application form (which can be obtained from the email address below) A purpose statement (half page stating your motivation for wishing to enroll in the Basic Program and study at Nalanda Monastery) Two letters of recommendation (at least one of which should be from a recognised and qualified Dharma teacher)

Please send your completed application to the Basic Program Coordinator at basic-program@nalanda-monastery.eu.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email us. We are very happy to help.

"In general, we can say that, for example, a place like Bodhgaya is regarded as a very holy place, and Nalanda Monastery in India is regarded as a very holy place. Why? Because there are a lot of blessings in these places, there were a lot of practices done at these places, and it is the same with our Nalanda Monastery here. If we are practising well, then Lama Zopa Rinpoche will come here and [as a result of] Rinpoche coming here, there will be many blessings here, and this will also help us with changing our minds. It has been said that a place becomes very blessed by the blessings of high lamas having come to that place.

Therefore, we should try to make this a place where excellent study occurs and whether this becomes a place for excellent study depends on the individual person’s motivation; one’s objective should be to engage in serious study as intensively as possible. If someone is not able to study intensively, then his objective should be to study as much as is possible for him and also reflect on what he has studied, and maybe meditate on what he has studied, becoming familiar with the material he has studied. And then there may be someone who is not even able to do this, maybe because of some sickness. This person, instead of studying, works for the monastery, taking on different tasks. Then, there might even be someone who has such an acute sickness or difficulties that he cannot even work for the monastery; this kind of person could say mantras, recite mantras, accumulate mantras, do prayers and, in a way, take it easy within the monastery."
 Geshe Lobsang Jamphal