“As part of the Chokgyur Lingpa Foundation family, you make it possible! Your compassion and generosity will go a long way and answer many prayers. Please join us in our projects and take part in a meritorious activity.” 
- Phakchok Rinpoche Director of CGLF

Three ways you can help us:

1. Become a Member

H.E. Chokling Rinpoche and Phakchok Rinpoche are extending an invitation to you to become a member of the Chokgyur Lingpa Foundation.

In 2009, Phakchok Rinpoche thought about ways to bring the sangha closer together and how to give people the opportunity to become a more integral part of the projects that have been started by the Foundation. This work is in its early stages and, at this critical time, needs the help of many people to ensure its completion.

By giving $1 per day, members will become essential supporters of the Chokgyur Lingpa Foundation projects, fulfilling the hopes of Rinpoche and giving benefit to other beings. Learn more about membership.

Read more about becoming a member.

2. Donate

The Chokgyur Lingpa Foundation is a registered 501 (c)(3). Your contribution is tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
If you would like to donate money online to The Chokgyur Lingpa Foundation, please use the following link to Paypal:

Make a donation.

All donations are tax-exempt and can be deducted from your taxes.
The email confirmation of your donation from the organization will serve as your receipt for tax purposes. Our EIN Number is 20-8020758.

If you would like to donate to the monks' welfare fund, click here

Alternatively, if you would like to make a donation to CGLF by post, please send your contribution by cheque to:

The Chokgyur Lingpa Foundation
412 Glimmerglen Road
Cooperstown, NY 13326

If you would like to make a wire transfer or discuss planned giving, please contact: office@cglf.org

3. Volunteer

Vajra Varahi Healthcare needs volunteer practitioners NOW!

Vajra Varahi Healthcare is a small charitable health care organisation based in Chapagaon, a village just outside Kathmandu in Nepal. We have a clinic, situated next to Phakchok Rinpoche’s monastery, providing treatment from a range of alternative healthcare traditions. We would like to add more!

We have a Tibetan doctor, and an homeopathic practitioner who visit once a week: both are locally employed Nepalis. We have also been providing very low cost community acupuncture treatments to a full appointment book of local people since November 2008, with each practitioner seeing about 20 patients a day for 6 days a week

Acupuncture is not common in Nepal and all our acupuncture and TCM practitioners are overseas volunteers. There is no local osteopath, chiropractor or massage therapist.

We would really like to keep the acupuncture going – and so would the villagers! We would like to add other treatments too. Are you a qualified acupuncturist, chiropractor, osteopath, or massage therapist who would like to volunteer to work with us?

We pay our Nepali interpreting and administrative staff, and along with running costs, that takes all our current income; sadly we can't afford to pay overseas staff. In fact, we ask you to contribute 500 Nepali rupees per day towards food and interpretation (about $7) and contribute needles and herbs (if you use them). But we can provide a congenial and very pretty rural environment, a clean comfortable bedroom with a bed and a sink, decent plumbing, hot water, a healthy hot lunch every working day, a modern kitchen for your own cooking, dining room and a pleasant roof terrace. We have needles, some TCM herbs, clean modern practice rooms with chairs and a massage table, and the chance to practice in a way unlike the way we can in the West.

Here you are often the first and only practitioner from whom the patient has sought help. As a result they are frequently taking no other medication. We see problems unknown to us back home. Patients can afford to come for a full course of treatment, as frequently as required, and are willing to do so. There is massive scope for invaluable health education with patients who have little understanding about their condition, its treatment or prevention. You will work across language and culture with a professional interpreter, learning a host of new skills. Personal satisfaction for the practitioner and appreciation from patients are enormous.

To counter the pleasures, electricity is infrequent, internet access ditto, the phone only enables incoming international calls and dhal bhat is our daily lunch. It takes an hour into Kathmandu by 2 microbuses – but they do stop just outside the clinic! And we are only a hour from the airport......

Most volunteers stay for 4-12 weeks, an ideal time for seeing new patients through to fruition.

If you are up for a challenge please get in touch!

We are happy to answer any questions at all you may have. We are on Skype and can talk also by phone as well as email. Write to me with your number!

Treat yourself and your practice to the trip of the decade!

Nicky Glegg, Director Vajra Varahi Healthcare

Email: vajravarahihealthcare@cglf.org

Skype ID: nickyglegg@hotmail.com