Geshe Jampa Gyatso, spiritual guide.
This photo was take in occasion of the presentation of the photographic show dedicated to KidAid.

Photo: Anthony Favazza

 
 
   

A great Tibetan Lama: Geshe Jampa Gyatso

  
 

 
From 1980 is the resident Lama of the Institute Lama Tzong Khapa of Pomaia (Pisa).
After many years of study to the monastic university of Sera Jè, in Tibet, he finished the studies in India, where he obtained the title of Geshe Larampa, the more prestigious qualification of the academic Tibetan panorama . Geshe Là did not only result between the first twelve qulified for this prestigious title, but was repeatedly chosen to represent the cream of the Tibetan intellighencija in various academic and cultural initiatives, until the qualification of Tantric Geshe given from the Ghelupa Society.

courtesy by ILTK Pomaia (Pisa) www.iltk.it
 

 
KidAid: open letter
   
Dear Ricky and Serenella, with the present one I want above all greet and thank you for your initiative in favor of the Tibetan refugees, laymen and monk, that at present live in exile in India.
As you know in this special historical period, the Tibetan people, after the forced occupation from the Chinese soldiers happened in 1959, are facing difficult moment, I would say almost crucial for its ethnic and cultural survival. There is need of information to make acquaintance that in Tibet is in action a progressive intensification of the process of "sinizzazione" of the Tibetans by the reduction of the use of the Tibetan language in the scholastic teaching, and to make acquaintance that many civil and democratic rights at present were abolished. Besides, there is also need of a some economical help for those Tibetan refugees than continually arrive in India to reunite itself to the actual familiar or to follow their spiritual leader: the XIV Dalai Lama.
The Tibetan government in exile and the monasteries at present are pledging for their maintenance and their essential needs, but what is offered is the minimum indispensable. On the base of these specific necessity, and for the preservation of the people and of the Tibetan culture, I feel the responsability of appeal to the generosity of the kind Italians with the request to take care of this people that are facing difficulties and to help it in some way.
Thanks for your kindness and your actvities to support the Tibetan people

Geshe Jampa Gyatso