About us - ང་ཚོའི་སྐོར།
Himalayan Elders Project is a 501(c)(3) non-profit tax-exempt organization registered in New York.
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Himalayan Elders Project is a 501(c)(3) non-profit tax-exempt organization registered in New York.
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ྤྱི་ནོར་༸གོང་ས་༸སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་གི་དགོངས་འཆར་ལས་སེམས་འགུལ་ཐེབས་པའི་ཧི་མ་ལ་ཡའི་རྒན་རྒོན་ལས་གཞི་འདི་ནི་ཧི་མ་ལ་ཡའི་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་རྒན་རྒོན་ཚོར་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་དང་ནུས་སྟོབས་སྤྲོད་པའི་ཆེད་དུ་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ལས་འགུལ་ཞིག་ཡིན།
At the Himalayan Elders Project (HEP), we are committed to creating a nurturing and inclusive environment for the seniors of the Himalayan community in New York. Three days a week, we gather for activities such as Buddhist studies, yoga, meditation, Zumba, language classes, art workshops, and more. Since 2012, we have proudly served over 250 seniors, offering them a renewed sense of purpose, connection, and care. Our project also provides free breakfast and lunch to our participants.
Mission: To provide love, care, and support to the elders of the Himalayan community by fostering a space for spiritual practice, social connection, and personal growth, while preserving our cultural heritage.
Vision: We envision a future where the elders of the Himalayan community feel empowered, connected, and supported, with opportunities to practice Dharma, share life stories, and rediscover their independence in a loving, nurturing environment.
Our Story: Founded in 2012 with the mission to serve our seniors selflessly, the Himalayan Elders Project was created to honor the sacrifices of our elders and express our deep appreciation for them. As a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, we rely on the dedication of our volunteers and the generosity of our community to keep growing and serving. Our journey has been a rewarding one, filled with the belief that doing good creates more good.
གལ་སྲིད་ཁྱེད་ཚོས་ང་ཚོར་རོགས་རམ་བྱེད་འདོད་ཡོད་ན་དྲ་ཐག་འདི་གནོན་ནས་ཞལ་འདེབས་འབུལ་རོགས།
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Thupten Chakrishar is a social entrepreneur and technologist, co-founder of the Himalayan Elders Project, and Founder of GunkTech. His background includes roles as CTO at MediaKite and a consultant for Ubisoft Montreal, blending tech innovation with cultural engagement.
Thupten Sherab is a celebrated Tibetan mixed media artist, specializing in traditional techniques like appliqué and thangka brocade. With over two decades of experience, his work fuses traditional and modern art, promoting Tibetan craftsmanship in New York.