This volunteer position includes Kitchen tasks of preparing vegetarian and vegan meals, washing pots and pans, and cleaning up the kitchen, as well as Housekeeping tasks of cleaning guest rooms and public spaces.
Housekeeping Position:
This volunteer position includes cleaning public spaces, guest rooms, offices and storage rooms. In addition, housekeepers do laundry tasks, re-supply the rooms and bathrooms with soap and paper products, and perform other interior maintenance tasks.
Being able to do some heavy lifting or physical labor is important.
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Same rainbow, Anitra Brown.
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If you are interested in one of these three-to-six month residential volunteer positions, please contact
office@kagyu.org. Or phone
845-679-5906 ext 3 or
845-679-5906 ext 1090.
KTD monastery is the North American seatof His Holiness Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the 17th Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu Tibetan Buddhist lineage. Located on a mountain above Woodstock, NY, the monastery is across the hiking trail going up Overlook Mountain. KTD offers teachings by Tibetan Buddhist lamas, meditation practices, chanting pujas, and a community lifestyle based on Buddhist principles. People from around the world come to weekend programs and week-long retreats to study genuine Buddhist dharma.
Residential volunteers sleep in Dorm Rooms and receive free vegetarian meals.
If their work schedule allows, they can attend teachings by visiting Tibetan Buddhist lamas on the weekends. Residential volunteers participate in KTD's community by doing a daily meditation or puja practice and by sharing other activities that support the spiritual and day-to-day life at the monastery. KTD offers a weekly Introduction to Buddhism course and a weekly Buddhist book discussion group. KTD's resident lamas and monastics are always willing to answer questions about Buddhism.
