Nekorpa is ecumenical in its support of pilgrimage projects around the world. Projects in 2010 and 2011 are located in: Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, India and Mongolia. Learn more about Nekorpa’s projects below or reach Top-Papers.com.
Pharping Pilgrimage Guide and Sanitation Program
Project Location: Pharping, Nepal
Nekorpa’s Pharping Pilgrimage Guide and Sanitation Program project is supporting a community-wide sanitation awareness-building program to reduce trash along the principal pilgrimage route, working with the monasteries, temple priests, and local civic and school groups. View Project Details
The Enlightenment Stupa of Lerab Lingpa
Project Location: Nyagar, Tibet
Nekorpa supported the construction of Leling Changchup Chörten Chokle Namgyal—the Enlightenment stupa of Lerab Lingpa, Victorious in All Directions—in Eastern Tibet. The reliquary stupa was built on the site where the 19th century Tibetan mystic Tertön Sogyal Lerab Lingpa spent his last years. View Project Details
Where Pilgrims and Conservationists Meet
Project Location: Taksang, Bhutan
In early 2010, Nekorpa collaborated with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in compiling a case study of Taksang (Tiger’s Lair), Bhutan’s national icon and one of the most significant Buddhist pilgrimage sites in all of the Himalayas. View Project Details
Sri Pada Pilgrimage Guide and Mountain Clean-up Program
Project Location: Sri Pada, Sri Lanka
Nekorpa’s Sri Pada Pilgrimage Guide and Mountain Clean-up Program focuses on the sacred mountain of Sri Pada, or Adam’s Peak. The project is utilizing these rich traditions to promote cooperation on activities for the protection of Sri Pada, to promote environmental and sanitation programs, to support interfaith dialogue, and to publish a pilgrimage guidebook in Sinhalese and English View Project Details
Pilgrimage Guide to Otgontenger
Project Location: Otgontenger, Mongolia
This project site is located at the remote sacred Mount Otgontenger [Tibetan: Batahor] in Zavkhan Province, Mongolia. The project will support local monks to conduct spiritual empowering rituals at Mount Otgontenger, as well as provide solar electricity to the monasteries in the region. View Project Details
Sankassa Pilgrimage Guide and Sanitation Awareness Program
Project Location: Sankassa, India
Nekorpa is collaborating with Deer Park Institute of Himachal Pradesh to publish a pilgrimage guide in Hindi and English to the Sankassa Stupa and surrounding area, initiate sanitation-awareness and refuse clean-up programs in the nearby schools, developing a tree planting program, and a program to install and provide technical training for solar panel and cookers. View Project Details