Nyanang phelgyeling monastery
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About the project
Nyanang phelgyeling monastery
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
More than 150,000 Tibetans live in exile in India, Nepal, and Bhutan. Of those exiled, nearly 20 percent live in Nepal, where they are now free to practice their religion and rebuild their cultural heritage.
As a result of this, there are several large monasteries in and around the surrounding mountains of Kathmandu, where monks live and devote their lives to Buddhism.
As of lately, with globalization and other developments, there is a great need and desire for young monks to learn English. As there are no English teachers in the monasteries, our volunteers stay there with the monks and teach daily classes.
Volunteers will enjoy this volunteer abroad teaching English to Monks in Nepal project. They won’t only get to learn but also get to participate (if they choose) in the culture and Buddhist practices in the monastery. The monks are enthusiastic students and appreciative your invaluable work!
💼 What the programme involves
The main job of volunteer is to teach English to Buddist monks so that they can increase the knowledge of english. In addition to teaching english, volunteers can
• Organize indoor game and creative curricular activities
• Play indoor games with nuns
• Develop additional english manual to foster english teaching
• Organize informal English language classes
This placement offers plenty of opportunities to volunteers to involve in different activities of monastery such as chanting, praying, meditation etc.
There is no curriculum for English teaching. So, the volunteers develop own manual and teach English. Different age group of monks may require different levels of English teaching. You can make a word game, grammar section, stories to make student understand the English. We also suggest you to bring some English (basic) books, and teaching materials such as flash cards, pamphlets, posters.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation is arranged in Host family
🍲 Food
Local food will be provided 3 times a day.
📍 About the location
This is a Buddhist monastery established to teach Buddhism to monks. Presently, the monastery has 24 monks aged 6 to 13. The monks have different levels. Five monks are in grade two, fourteen monks are in grade one and five monks are in nursery level. These monks are studying Buddhism and general school curriculum at the monastery. All of the monks take English classes. The monastery has set curriculum which volunteers can follow while teaching. The schedule will be provided upon arrival at the monastery.
The monastery is located close by Swoyambhu (Monkey Temple), which is a popular tourist destination in Kathmandu Nepal. You can see lots of monasteries and monks around the place.
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Sign in to apply📅 Available sessions
Nyanang phelgyeling monastery 1
01/08/2021 → 31/12/2021
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–99 years old
Solidarity donation
0.00
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Swayambhu, Kathmandu 44600, Nepal
Nepal
🌍 Location info
Local currency
Nepal Rupee (NPR / रूपैयाँ)
Exchange rate
1 NPR = 0.005958 EUR
Rate as of 31/05/2026
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🏠 Accommodation
🗣️ Languages spoken