Outreach to Tibetan, Chinese, Mongolian, and English speaking people
	2006 Year End Report
About Logo	Dear Friends, The Tibetan Center for Compassion & Wisdom wishes to thank you for your generous contributions in 2006. Your support has helped Our Center to flourish and to contribute to many activites that took place in the last year. Your financial support has made it possible for Arjia Rinpoche and Chunpay to continue their dharma work in Bloomington, Indiana, where they assist the Tibetan Cultural Center (TCC), as requested by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Through your kindness, financial burdens and worries were alleviated for them, so they could focus on the great task that had been presented. They were also able to offer needed support to Tibetan monks, nuns and refugees who would come to them for help. Arjia Rinpoche completed the writing of his memoirs and they are currently looking for a publisher to bring these incredible stories to all of us. Rinpoche and Chunpay have been with us for the past several weeks and soon they return to Indiana to get ready for His Holiness's visit October 23rd - the 28th. TCCW has also been fortunate to have a resident teacher, Khanchen Rinpoche, stay at our Mill Valley Center, who has been watching over our practice and offering important teachings and trainings to us during Arjia Rinpoche's absence. In December, he arranged for Khen Rinpoche, the Abbot of Sera Jey Monastery, and 2 attendants to visit TCCW for 3 weeks. Precious teachings and initiations were offered to all. Our lives were truly enriched by their visit. In the fall of 2006 a new project was begun through TCCW, the "Tofu Project". In the past several years, His Holiness has requested Tibetan monks and nuns become vegetarian. Traditionally, monks and nuns would eat food that had been offered to them, including meat. It was felt that if the monks had fresh tofu to eat each day, it would provide them with the good protein source they need. So a plan was implemented to purchase a tofu machine that would be able to provide fresh tofu daily to 3,000 monks and nuns. The intention of this project is to one day have a tofu machine in each Tibetan monastery in India and Nepal. The founders of this project are Geshe Ngawang Dakpa (resident teacher at Tse Chen Link Center in San Francisco), Arjia Rinpoche, Brian Li and a group of Dharma friends from the San Francisco Bay Area. The Multi Educational & Editing Center (MEEC), supported by TCCW and located in Dharamsala, India, expanded its site to include more offices and a location for the community to preserve the Tibetan Culture. They continue their important translation work and now publish a quarterly periodical called "Kawa". Their work has touched many people's lives. For more information on TCCW (California), TCC (Indiana), their many projects, and His Holiness's visit in October, please see our web sites at tccwonline.org and tibetancc.com. We are very grateful to you for your generous contributions last year, and we send our prayers for a most happy and prosperous 2007 for you and your family. Sincerely, Arjia Rinpoche Abbot TCCW Kathleen Gustin Treasurer TCCW
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