Drukpa Australia – Buddha is Your Mind
Drukpa Australia is a Himalayan Buddhist organisation and charity founded by Gyalwa Dokhampa Rinpoche to provide a platform to learn, understand, and share the teachings of Himalayan Buddhism, particularly of the Drukpa Lineage and it's masters. 1. Preserving and promoting Himalayan Buddhism By maintaining our Centre at Yokine and regular presence of Residential Teachers (His Eminence Khamtak Rinpoche, Venerable Nawang Gurmay, Venerable Jigme) in addition to our spiritual master Gyalwa Dokhampa Rinpoche, we are a stable and uninterrupted platform for our regular practitioners, members, and those who seek to continue practicing Buddhism in Australia. We have also successfully completed one set of Buddhist Fasting retreat, the annual Drolma Yudok rimdro (public ritual), and made a big progress in the Nyondro (Preliminary) and Tara Practices. In December 2021, we launched a One Million Tara Recitation goal to recite individual one million Tara mantras. Monthly Tara Practices and Offerings are organised at the Centre and other locations to commemorate and promote this goal and encourage new practitioners to join the goal. To this date, we have more than 50 members doing the recitations and 10 of them have completed 200,000 recitations in the course of one and half year. We have also observed the five auspicious days (Zhabdrung Kuchoe, Guru RInpoche's Birthday, and three important days relating to Lord Buddha) for the community. Through this, we supported the community both in terms of providing a platform and in advancing the Himalayan Buddhism. 2. Spiritual awareness among the Youth We have now about 30 young children attending our Cultural Edutainment programme, which includes a weekly development programme related to religion and culture, digital art and story narration and retreats. Our young people are becoming more aware of our Buddhist culture and are coming forward to join our spiritual programmes . 3. Community welfare We provided financial and spiritual support to several members of the community. Financial support includes support to family members, gravely ill members of the Bhutanese community. Religious support includes those mentioned in (1).