Organizations Supporting Monks, Nuns & Yogis

Buddhist monks, nuns and yogis devote their lives to the study and practice of the spiritual path, in order to promote peace and to help other sentient beings on the path to enlightenment. Buddhist monasteries, nunneries, and hermitages rely heavily on the generosity of the sponsors to provide conducive living environments for their resident practitioners. Devoting oneself fully to the spiritual path is not a particularly easy lifestyle and it pays next to nothing.
Below is list of some organizations that support monasteries, nunneries and hermitages.Support for full-time practitioners is especially important in this dark age of materialism. According to the Buddhist teachings, donations supporting them produce great merit for the sponsors, regardless of the amount.
If you know of any more reputable organizations that distribute donations to Buddhist monks, nuns, yogis, and yoginis, please send contact information to prayerflags2@gmail.com.

The Tibetan Nuns Project       
The Tibetan Nuns Project was established in 1987 to improve educational opportunities and elevate the status of women. Today, the Tibetan Nuns Project supports over 800 nuns, in seven nunneries in Northern India, The Tibetan Nuns Project also provides support to nuns living independently or in retreat.
Donations may be made directly to TNP through their website

Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche
Under the spiritual direction of Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, over 210 nuns practice and study in two nunneries in Nepal and Bhutan. Donations to their organization provides education, health, and welfare of the nuns who live in the nunneries.  Your sponsorship makes it possible for nuns from Tibet, Nepal, and Bhutan to study and practice in Khenpo Rinpoche's nunneries. Your sponsorship makes it possible for nuns from Tibet, Nepal, and Bhutan to study and practice in Khenpo Rinpoche's nunneries.Donations may be made through their website. 
 Nunnery Endowment Fund or Sponsor an Individual Nun.

Khachoe Chakyil Ling
Established in 1979 by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, the founders of Kopan Monastery above Kathmandu, this is currently the largest Tibetan nunnery in Nepal with 400 nuns. In order to allow all the nuns the freedom to concentrate on their Dharma education. all facilities, including education, is offered completely free of charge. With your help, the nunnery provides a secure and supportive environment for both young and old members of it’s community.
Sponsor a nun at Khachoe Chakyil Ling

Tibetan Education Foundation
T.E.F."s mission is to provide educational support to underserved Tibetan youth deep in rural East Tibet as well as some rural areas of India and Sikkim Their funds are used to build modest classrooms and to provide food, clothing, textbooks, and teacher’s salaries. Even though most schools in Chinese occupied Tibet are forbidden to teach Tibetan language, all the students at the schools, monasteries and nunneries funded by T.E.F. are taught to read and write proficiently in Tibetan language.
Their operations are entirely funded by the compassionate support of donors & sponsors.
Donations may be made through their website.

Kailash Fellowship
The Kailash Fellowship is dedicated to supporting the Takyak Hermitage of Anam Chatralwa in the Golok region of Tibet, and to propagating Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana teachings. With the direction of Anam Thubten, we are inspired to impart the wisdom of the great Dharma masters of Tibet, especially Dudjom Lingpa. Even though their teachings flourished in Tibet, this wisdom is still in the process of reaching beyond its traditional borders.
Donations can be made through their website

Tashi Jong Monastery - Khampagar Yogi Center
A Togden Yogi is a highly accomplished practitioner of Tantric Buddhism, specifically within the Nyingma and Kagyu traditions, who has achieved a high level of realization through intense meditation and spiritual practice. Togdens are recognized not only for their spiritual attainments but also for their ability to transcend ordinary limitations, and they often live as hermits, engaging in solitary retreat for extended periods to deepen their meditation. Many Togdens are believed to have achieved remarkable levels of spiritual insight, sometimes including signs of great realization, though their main focus is on profound inner transformation and liberation.The original Khampagar yogi center, was started by the 4^th Khamtrul Rinpoche (1730-1779), at his monastery in Eastern Tibetan. He built a retreat center where 13 yogis could practice intensively; mostly in solitary retreat. Until someone at the retreat center passed away, a new yogi could not join. These thirteen yogis were called “togden”, meaning “realized one.” Thirteen yogis practiced there for the next 200 years until the Chinese invaded Tibet. The 8^th Khamtrul Rinpoche, Dongyu Nyima Rinpoche escaped from the Chinese invasion in the late 1950’s and built a new monastery and retreat facility near Tashi Jong in Northern India. 
Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery has several nuns who already aspire to train as Togdenmas and are prepared to undertake the long, rigorous and austere practices which require many years in retreat, in order to attain enlightenment in one lifetime. Towards this aim, four nuns have already completed eight years of strict retreat and others have now joined, including two nuns from one of Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s nunneries who had already completed a 3-year retreat in Nepal.
Donations to support the Togdens and Togdenmas