Left: Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche runs the Toronto Marathon, November 2003.

Surmang, Fall of 2006
photo by  Gaye Carlson

Surmang dutsi til  homes 2004 photo by Ethan Neville

Woman at the construction site of the Surmang shedra. PHoto by Gaye Carlson, 2005

Support the Rebuilding of Surmang

The work of the Konchok Foundation is supported entirely by donation from individual donors.  It is a non profit organization and all donations are tax deductible.

Please Donate:

You can support the rebuilding of Dutsi Til and the education of Trungpa XII Rinpoche by donating online here. That page also contains information for Americans and Canadians on how donate by check.

For more information about the Surmang shedra and the Konchok Foundation we can send you a copy of our 20 minute DVD,  made in about 2005.  Please email  ginnylipson or phone at 303 494-7852

Please note that if you give a donation,  we can send you a variety of complimentary donations gifts on request.  We still have available:

1)  We have just received two photos of the 12th Trungpa Rinpoche taken in September 2009 by two Dutch travelers to Surmang,  Heleen de Graaf and Ymkje Repko.  They are shown on the 12th Trungpa Rinpoche

page.  You may have one or both upon request with any donation.

2)  All donors for the next several months will receive a beautiful 4x6 photo of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, courtesy of James Hoagland.  To see this photo, please go to http://www.konchok.org/donation_gifts.php

3) For donors of $25 or more, we can offer sets of five beautifuly hand crafted note cards donated by Alexandra Shenpen.  These can likewise be seen on our donation gifts site http://www.konchok.org/donation_gifts.php  Please indicate your request for this gift—numbers are limited!

4) Two different photos of the 12th Trungpa Rinpoche.  One taken at Serta Institute in 2008,  and another taken in March of 2007 when he was at Surmang.  (Complimentary with any donation)   Please  click on donations gifts   and scroll down to view these photos.)

5)  Photos of Trungpa Rinpoche and his teacher Khenpo Gangshar, taken in the late 1950's, (just before the Chinese invasion of Tibet)  with donations of ANY amount.  

6)  For all donations over $30, we still have remaining packets of special Surmang Dutsi, prepared by the Surmang Monks in 2006. 

7)  For all donations over $50 we also have special brocade wrapped relics from the wall of the ruins of the Castle of Adro Shelumbum (taken from the particular wall in the Surmang living quarters of the 11th Trungpa Rinpoche).

Konchok Online Auction

We will have a "mini auction"  from December 2-16" 2009.

Donation Gifts

Donation Gifts   is still open. 

“I wish our shedra was open right now!”

              --Trungpa XII Rinpoche (in a recent comment to Khenpo Tsering Gyurme,  2009)

"I, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, spiritual and temporal head of the Shambhala Mandala, am completely committed to the development of Surmang..." — Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

"I hold fewer aspirations dearer in my heart than the rebuilding of Surmang, the spiritual home of the Shambhala mandala." — Lady Diana Mukpo

"My first endeavor on my return to Surmang was to carry out the last wish of the tenth Trungpa Tulku and to enlarge the seminary [shedra]..." — Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche