Ngodup Wangdu Memorial Soup Kitchen, an opportunity to serve

The Bodhgaya, the land of enlightenment is a religious site and place of pilgrimage associated with the Mahabodhi Temple, Bodhgaya in Gaya district in the Indian state of Bihar. Gautama Buddha have attained Enlightenment (Pali: bodhi) under what became known as the Bodhi Tree.

For Buddhists, Bodh Gaya is the most important of the main four pilgrimage sites related to the life of Gautama Buddha, the other three being Kushinagar, Lumbini, and Sarnath. In 2002, Mahabodhi Temple, located in Bodh Gaya, became a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

We are fortunate to be able to organise a soup kitchen in association with Kagyu Monlam. With the team of Kagyu Monlam, we were preparing the meal with washing rice, vegetables and arranging the food package.

At around 11:00am, we drove near the Mahabodhi Temple with fresh meal packets consisting of hot rice, potatos, soya chunks, tomato & chilly chutney and boiled eggs in each packet. We started serving the less abled people and we are happy to be able to distribute more than 300 people.

We are happy to meet monks, pilgrims, rickshaw drivers, cobblers and poor people who gladly came to eat in our soup kitchen. it was a pleasure and of great satisfaction to be able to serve and greet a number of people through this initiative.

We would like to thank Kagyu Monlam for providing us all the support in making this humble act of compassion in action possible.

This simple act of giving is one of the project we were keen to start in memory of our dear Pala and his advice to be of service to others in any form or anyway possible.