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 ooking forward to a wonderful new year, 2005 promises
to be a great year for the Gyuto Monks and for Gyuto House Australia.
Far from being a quiet year, it has all the hallmarks of being
our busiest yet!
There is much afoot.
Looks like we will be touring again in Australia from approx.
August 2005 and quite possibly having a group of resident monks
here on an ongoing basis to enable us to develop our services
to the community especially those in need of special help. We
aim to reorganize ourselves to handle our increased workload,
restructure our Board of Management - at this time in particular,
we say goodbye to Robin Wood who is moving on. She has been a
great support to Gyuto House and to the Monastery for the past
8 years and will be sorely missed - we say a huge thank you to
her for all her hard work and generous support and wish her all
the best in the future.
We are also grateful
for our long term organizers around the country who form a strong
backbone of support to our work and without whom we wouldn't
have a program. Isy Gabriel in Tilba, NSW; Pamela Meares in Hobart,
Tasmania; Marjorie Jane Scott in Inverloch, Vic.; Lorraine and
her Lambs in Mount Martha, Sally McLean our webmaster in Melbourne,
Victoria - all are the tip of a huge iceberg. And they in turn
are backed by an equally huge band of people who offer accommodation,
food, and hard labour as we travel around the country.
Our very own Dolores
Phendytsang in Adelaide has been a quiet achiever for many years,
Lyn Nelson and Judith Brown also in Adelaide, Berice Dudley and
daughter Chris in Sydney, Patti and Bob Hoskins in Shoreham,
Vic., Laurie and Judith Reiner in Launceston, Trish Eisele in
Melbourne, Brendan Dowd in Warrnambool, Tom and Tessa Pauling
in Darwin, Joy Pietsch and Andy and Robin Barnes in Horsham,
Premda and Ghandavo in Bermagui, Terese Duff in Townsville, Mandy
Doig in Margaret River, Patria Jaffries in Perth and on and on
the list goes.
Please - if you are not
mentioned, you are not forgotten, we know and think of you all
often as do the monks in the monastery who remember you all in
their prayers.
Special thanks go too
to those health professionals in hospitals and around the country
who take care of the monks from time to time and to whom we are
eternally grateful - none more so than George Manos in Adelaide,
Ross Both in Horsham and Andrew Parker in Townsville.
To our generous financial
benefactors who probably wish to remain nameless, a special thank
you.
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