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Imagine a school where you’re taught how to succeed in the modern world but never at the expense of your culture, your traditions, your rooting. Where you learn to cherish your environment. Where your buildings soak in solar energy instead of expending electricity, you recycle waste, you plant thousands of trees…
Just such a model school is Druk White Lotus School in Shey’s Naropa Palace complex. It was established by the Drukpa lineage in 2001. Students’ fees meet running costs and are also channelled into scholarships for the needy. Of the 506 students, 158 stay on campus. The school expands by one grade every year, and will have all 12 grades by 2014. [continue reading…]
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