What are we doing? We are sponsoring a recitation of the complete Tibetan Buddhist canon at Sed Gyued Monastery. It will begin sometime between January 2026 - February 2026. Additional funds will support the monastery’s general welfare.

What is the recitation of the Kangyur and Tengyur? Reciting the Kangyur means reciting all the Sutras, Tantras, Vinaya, Prajñaparamita, and other primary texts.

Reciting the Tengyur means reciting the Abhidharma, Madhyamaka texts (Ven. Nagarjuna's works, etc.), Cittamatra texts (Ven. Asanga’s works, etc.), Jataka tales, logic and epistemology texts (Ven. Dharmakirti's works, etc.), medical treatises, and other early Buddhist commentarial works.

What are the benefits? This a powerful purification practice that removes negative karma and accumulates incalculable positive karma: this has the potential to directly remove obstacles like poor health, loss, and conflict — and create both temporary and ultimate happiness. The results from 2024's & 2025's recitation were stunning. The benefits are explained in The Condensed Jewel Quality Sutra:

"Consider the merit obtained from building a stupa of the sorrowless state, the one gone to bliss, making the stupa of the seven jewels, making as many of these to fill many thousands of ten-million worlds equalling the number of sand grains in the Ganges River, and making offerings to these stupas by many sentient beings—infinite sentient beings of all the existing worlds making offerings of lights, incense and flowers etc—three times a day, for aeons."

"The merit created by reading, writing, keeping, making an offering to, and paying respect to the Mother Prajñaparamita and Kangyur taught by Buddha who possesses the Ten Powers is infinitely greater than the former."

What does it cost? The actual prayer costs ~£909 (~$1,222 / ₹110,000). This amount includes feeding and offering tea to the monks for ~45 days and a grand lunch after the recitation is complete.

Where will additional funding go? All additional funds will support the monastery. If we reach our goal, it will cover most of the monastery’s operating costs for one year. For reference, the total operating cost for the monastery, not including food, is about ~£4,155 (~$5,285) per year. To feed all the monks costs an additional ~£22,298 (~$28,312) per year.

The operating costs allow the monastery to offer a Buddhist Sutra and Tantra curriculum, language classes, cover the monks’ annual medical expenses, to fund ritual activities, and to engage merit-making and purification activities. The more we raise, the greater our support for the monastery’s general welfare.

See a detailed analysis on their website:

http://www.sed-gyued.org/patronage.html