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Community outreach program
Tibetan Buddhist Society - Fundraising and donations
His Holiness the Dalai Lama has continuously taught that it is most important that Tibetan Buddhist practitioners support their local communities.
The Tibetan Buddhist Society’s Founder and Spiritual Leader, Venerable Geshe Acharya Thubten Loden, has made great efforts to ensure that the Tibetan Buddhist Society has followed His Holiness’ advice.
Although the Society has incurred many costs through purchase and maintenance of the Yuroke property, construction of the traditional Tibetan temple and the Tushita Publications publishing programme, it has been very active in raising funds for appeals to support those suffering through tragedies, natural disasters and other hardships.
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1979 - 2007
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Personal donations by Venerable Geshe Acharya
Thubten Loden to Tibetan monasteries and Tibetan elderly people in India
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$400,000
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May 1996
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Tibetan snowstorm nomad victims
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$800
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July 1998
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Papua New Guinea tsunami
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$730
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July 1998
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Gippsland farmers drought relief
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$1580
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April 1999
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Yugoslav refugees
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$1000
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Jan 2002
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Afghanistan refugees
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$495
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July 2002
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New South Wales bushfires relief
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$1160
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September 2002
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Tibet’s Jamyang Choling Nunnery
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$2900
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October 2002
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National Drought (Red Cross Farmhand Appeal)
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$12,154
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March 2003
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Bali Bombing victims (Red Cross Appeal)
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$8450
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January 2004
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Iran earthquake
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$6700
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August 2003
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Victorian homeless people
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$3000
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July 2004
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Bendigo car accident victim
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$2000
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January 2005
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Indian Ocean tsunami (Red Cross Appeal)
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$22,150
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July 2005
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Tibetan Government Home Office Elderly Tibetan
Refugees Appeal sent to the Home Office
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$20,000
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August 2005
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Ballarat car accident victim
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$1210
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November 2005
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Pakistan Earthquake victims
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$3217
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October 2006
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Sera Je Hospital
in Bylakuppe, India
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$7015
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December 2006
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Melbourne cat refuge
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$3000
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May 2007
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Contributions to
His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 2007 Australian tour by students of the Tibetan Buddhist
Society’s Beaumaris centre as underwriters and benefactors
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$100,000
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May 2007
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Business luncheon
organised by the Tibetan Buddhist Society in Perth for the 2007 Australian tour
by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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$210,000
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March 2008
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Tibetan Government
Scholarships for 28,000 Tibetan Refugee Students in India Appeal sent to the Tibetan
Minister for Education
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$100,000
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March 2008
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Tibetan Refugees
at Sera Je Monastery Hospital in India Appeal
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$20,000
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March 2009
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Victorian Bushfire Victims Appeal to List of Charities
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$36,800 now,target $50,000
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Total
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$927,561
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