Losar Tashi Delek – Tibetan Buddhist New Year We celebrated the Losar holiday from February 18th until the end of the month. For SMDers, the highlight was seeing Thrangu Rinpoche at the Thrangu Yangtse Monastery, a couple of hours away. At any given time, we normally have above 100 children in residence at our school, but this year, since there …
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SMDers To The Rescue
SMDers To The Rescue The school year started with 70 unsponsored boarders. We put out a call to all our SMD graduates who are overseas, asking for help. These heroes jumped up! Dawa Dolma Sherpa and her sister Sherab Dolma sponsored a little Sherpa girl (SMD’s blind choice). It turned out the little girl is their niece! Tsering Namgyal was …
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Five Years Of Partnership
Celebrating Five Years Of Partnership Shawnigan Lake School shawnigan.ca celebrated five years of partnership with SMD. Our director, Shirley Blair was honoured to be invited as a guest to the Scholars’ Luncheon. We SMDers were deeply moved by the care and thought that went into the celebration – kudos to Sara Blair. In chapel, Acharya Karma Sangpo spoke about the …
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SMD School Spring Update
New School Year! The 2022-2023 school year started on May 9th. These are some of the 70 boarders who need sponsors. You can change a child’s future for less than a cappacino a day. Some Of Our Scholarship Kids Were Finally Able To Come Home Several students managed to come home – Dechen …
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Dolma Tsering’s Experience at ISAK
Dolma Tsering from Gorkha disrict is an SMD alumna. She won a scholarship at the International School of Asia Karuizawa (ISAK) in Japan to finish her grade 11 and 12 studies, pursuing an IB (International Baccalaureate) diploma. Right now, she is back at SMD for the summer break and shared her grade 11 experience with us. The first few days …
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Reflections from Junu Dimdung
My name is Junu Dimdung. I am a proud graduate of Shree Mangal Dvip Boarding School (SMD) in Nepal and Shawnigan Lake School in BC, Canada. Unlike many children at SMD who come from the high Himalayas in northern Nepal, I am from a destitute village named Mankawnpur Gadhi in the southern part of Nepal, where there was no electricity, …
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Film for Change
SMD alumna, Dolma Tsering Lama, recently finished the IB (International Baccalaureate) program at UWC (United World Colleges) ISAK in Japan. She won a full scholarship at Wheaton College MA in the USA to study film as of fall 2018. As so many people are still illiterate in the mountains of Nepal, she thinks short films are a way to bring …
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TD receives UBC Scholarship
SMD School alumna, Tsewang Diki (‘TD’), recently graduated from grade 12 at Shawnigan Lake Boarding School in British Columbia, Canada. Not only did she do so with flying colours, but she also won a full-ride, four-year scholarship to the University of British Columbia (UBC; among the top 50 universities in the world) in Canada to study sciences. TD says that …
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Tashi Dolma Helps Nubri Villages
Tashi Dolma Lama is one of our SMD alumna who won a scholarship to finish her high-school diploma in Canada at Bishop Strachan School in Toronto, Ontario in 2011, after which she went on to complete her Bachelor of Arts & Sciences Degree at Quest University in Squamish, BC, Canada earlier this year. She writes to us about her recent …
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Sonam Colours his Dreams
Sonam Gurung, SMD alum and artist, just returned from Red Cross Nordic United World College in Norway, where he was studying on scholarship to complete grades 11 and 12. While there, he presented a project proposal to make art classes available to SMD School students after class, hold art exhibitions and produce new generations of artists at SMD. His project …
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SMD Alumni Graduate in Canada
We are so proud of SMD alumni Tenzin Sherpa and Dechen Dolma who graduated with their bachelor degrees from Universities in western Canada this month. Dechen came to SMD from the remote Himalayan village of Lho, in the Nubri region of Nepal. As one of our outstanding students, she finished Class 10 with us, after which she won a scholarship …