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    The document summarizes recent events at Gonpa Gazette monastery in 3 paragraphs: 1) The author is no longer teaching English, which allows more time for meditation, though they still work 3 jobs instead of the usual 4 due to lack of qualified replacements. A record number of 41 new monks arrived from Nepal for a total of 110 school monks. 2) All new monks receive medical checkups and instruction on hygiene practices like nose blowing and asking for medicine in English. One new nun also arrived along with the many new monks. 3) A photo shows monks preparing for class after their daily showers, highlighting the increased hygiene responsibilities that come with the large group of new recruits.

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    The document summarizes recent events at Gonpa Gazette monastery in 3 paragraphs: 1) The author is no longer teaching English, which allows more time for meditation, though they still work 3 jobs instead of the usual 4 due to lack of qualified replacements. A record number of 41 new monks arrived from Nepal for a total of 110 school monks. 2) All new monks receive medical checkups and instruction on hygiene practices like nose blowing and asking for medicine in English. One new nun also arrived along with the many new monks. 3) A photo shows monks preparing for class after their daily showers, highlighting the increased hygiene responsibilities that come with the large group of new recruits.

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    GONPA GAZETTE

    I am no longer teaching which


    is bittersweet. I enjoy
    teaching…hearing the monks’
    English improve…but I just can’t
    do everything anymore. By not
    teaching I theoretically have my
    mornings free for meditation.
    Years ago Rinpoche told me I
    needed to work less and meditate
    more, but things kept being asked
    of me, until finally my body said,
    “Work less”!
    I asked to work only three full
    Most new monks are from our Nepal monastery.
    time jobs (nurse, hygiene and
    New monks usually arrive dogs) instead of four! I am happy
    around Losar, our New Year. This to only do one, but we have not
    year we have 41 to be exact, for a found a qualified nurse in four
    total of 110 school monks! That’s years; and hygiene/dog care are
    a lot of washed hands to check not part of the culture, so I doubt
    before meals; and washed heads we will find someone to do those.
    and bodies to be check morning
    and afternoon!
    All new monks are weighed
    and started on oral antifungal
    tablets prophylactically for 60
    days….taught to blow their nose
    with tissue paper AND put it in
    the dust bin…taught to ask for
    medicine in English sentences…
    One ani; many, many new
    Preparing for handwriting class after daily showers.
    monks!
    MARCH 2018 IN PHOTOS

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