Support for the Bhikkhuni Sangha
Dhammadharini Support Foundation
The Dhammadharini Support Foundation is a stewardship foundation, stewarding the monetary gifts of the community of lay friends and supporters of our Bhikkhuni Sangha, in providing the Bhikkhunis’ community with the traditional four requisites of monastic life: alms food, lodging, robes, and medicine, together with contemporary requisites like transportation, and supports for Dhamma study and teaching.
Since the Bhikkhunis and Samaneris of our Dhammadharini Sangha, per the ancient precepts of our Forest & Insight traditions, cannot keep or handle money, and the Bhikkhunis can only eat or drink that which is offered to them on the morning of any given day, our monastics are completely dependent on the lay community for their physical support. From the time of the Buddha, according to the way the Buddha himself chose to live after his Awakening, support for the monastic life has been provided through such daily acts of generosity, in a beneficial and harmonious symbiosis with the lay community.
Through the help of generous lay people, our Bhikkhunis are able to live this ancient Path as monastics and spiritual seekers fully holding the precepts of the Vinaya. This commitment to support the Bhikkhuni Sangha creates a rewarding relationship, and the spiritual friendship that develops is a beautiful and precious gift from the Buddha.
Those who wish to be a part of supporting our Bhikkhunis’ whole life path, practice and teaching, and the blessings and merits thereof, will find helpful information here about how you may contribute that will be most helpful and supportive.