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Winter 2008 in India

Winter 2008 in India

During the winter 2008, a small delegation of the Green Bodhgaya team went to Bodhgaya for an exploratory survey of the area and its inhabitants.

Our first concrete action was to ask a blessing from H.H. the Karmapa for the first tree we planted.

This was accomplished on the 11 of January, full moon day. We planted it on the same day in the private meditation garden inside the Mahabodhi Temple, during the Kagyu Monlam when all the Monks were reciting the Bodhisattvas wishes.

We also did a survey of the existing NGO in order to determine the possible cooperation we could create

We met people from the Agricultural Department the area and scientist form the agricultural department of the Patna Universitiy and the Magdha University in Bodhgaya.

The Indian branch of the Green Bodhgaya has been registered as a Charitable Trust (Registered under Government of India Charitable Trust Act) under the same name, with indigenous people form Bihar.

Plant a wish tree

News
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More than 1,000 trees were planted during the winter 2010 campaign in Bodhgaya ------------------------------
Around 60 fruit trees offered in various monasteries and meditation centers (Korean Temple, Buthan, Japanese, Mahabodhi Meditation Center) ------------------------------
100 Fruit trees offered different families in a village near Bodhgaya ------------------------------
50 Fruit trees offered at Dr. Maheindra's clinic (which opened a homeopathic college) ------------------------------
Planting of 108 trees on the Kalachakra ground with their protection ------------------------------
Plantation of trees on the-lands of the Mahanta of Bodhgaya(descendant of the spiritual and political authority at the time of the Maharajas) ------------------------------
Planting of fruit trees in 3 schools in villages around Bodhgaya in collaboration with Integral Rural Developpment Trust (Indian association sponsored by the Spanish) which has established schools locally and mobile clinics. The children received a little training on how to plant and protect trees then did practical work on the campus of their school and then received a tree to plant at home ------------------------------
His Holiness the Dalai Lama has blessed some of these trees and His Holiness the Karmapa has applauded the idea that next year, during the Meulam, each monk plants a tree with a wish ------------------------------