Major Activities

Religious conference: The department organizes Religious Conference of four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism and Bon Tradition in every bi-yearly. This conference was first initiated by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 1961 with spiritual heads of Tibetan Buddhism, Kalon, Khenpo and Geshe at His Holiness residence for the purpose of reviving Tibetan Buddhism in exile. Later this department took the responsibility of organizing this conference in order to carry out the works and implementing the resolutions passed in the conference. So far 12 religious conferences have been successfully organized by this department.

Religious Seminar: The Religious Seminar of four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism and Bon Tradition is the follow up works of resolution passed in the meeting of preservation of Tibetan Buddhism held in 2013. The main aims of the seminar are to share the knowledge and experiences and understand the common goal of Buddhism and Bon as a one among them. The third Religious Seminar will be going to hold soon with speakers and participants from various monasteries and nunneries.

Religious Services: The DRC yearly organizes Chotrul Monlam Chenmo and Guru Bumtsok, conducts “long life prayers” to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and leaders of four major Tibetan Buddhist schools and Bon religion on timely basis, and coordinates other religious services required to be done by Tibetan community for the security of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and for welfare of Tibetan nation. Apart from that, Department also organized special prayer services for Tibetans in Tibet who self-immolated themselves on fire to protest against Chinese government for freedom in Tibet and returns of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet.

Modern Science Workshop: Knowing the significance of modern science workshop to the monks and nuns as well as growing the influence of science in Buddhism, the department conducted Introduction of Modern Science Workshop to the monks and nuns from various monastic institutions in yearly. In the workshop, we hired the science teachers from Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala and teach the participants for two weeks about the concepts of modern science and using scientific tools for experiment.

Intensive Course on Tibetan Language and Buddhist Philosophy: As giving importance of Tibetan youths, coming out from college, to understand the basic knowledge on Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, the DRC initiated the workshop called “Intensive Course on Tibetan Language and Buddhist Philosophy” for the period of six months in collaboration with Snowland School of Tibetan Studies at Gyumed Monastery, Hunsur. As of now, the department has successfully organized four workshop and 112 Tibetan youths received benefit from it.

Tibetan Arts and Culture Fund: Through this project, we facilitate financial support to the individuals and organizations whose works are relating with preservation and promotion of contemporary Tibetan arts and distinct culture of Tibet. The core purpose of this project is to encourage Tibetan artists to continue carry out their works for keeping alive and strengthening Tibetan culture.