 long with their cultural activities, the monks have also,
on request, conducted group workshops and retreats in hospice,
palliative care and cancer care centres, services for street
kids and offenders, drug & alcohol and sexual assault clinics
and community houses as well as Aboriginal communities, schools
and meditation groups. |
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In 1996, Gyuto House
hosted two Gyuto Monks offered scholarships to study English,
through the generosity of the University of South Australia,
the first time a Gyuto Monk has ever received a scholarship in
the West.
Following discussions in India
in 1996 about the activities of the Gyuto Monks in Australia
with the Abbot and Management of Gyuto Tantric University, the
decision was taken to establish Gyuto House in Adelaide, which
subsequently occurred. At a meeting with the Dalai Lama, the
Abbot of Gyuto and Gyuto House Australia Director, Maureen Fallon,
the same year, His Holiness was advised of the work in Australia
and recorded his appreciation, particularly the work with schoolchildren. |
