The Tashi Lhunpo Monastery (http://www.tashilhunpo.org/), the traditional seat of the Panchen Lama, was re-established in Mysore District, South India, in 1972.  Today the monastery has about 250 monks, including many new refugees who escaped from Tibet because they could not receive religious training at home.  The influx of new refugees is putting a strain on the monastery which faces difficulties supporting the existing monks.

The following novice monks all come from a remote, improvised village near Zanskar in Ladakh, India.  Nearly all their families are subsistence farmers.  At Tashi Lhunpo the young monks receive an education in both Buddhist studies as well as modern subjects in the monastic school.