Offer your time and skills
Volunteering
We welcome volunteers who would like to help the monastery and its children. Helpful skills include teaching English, mathematics and computers, health care, construction and maintenance, gardening, photography and fundraising.
- Volunteers should be able to stay at least two weeks.
- Simple accommodation and vegetarian meals are provided at the monastery.
- Please apply at least one month in advance so we can plan your stay.
Fill in the form below and we will get in touch.
Volunteer application
Tell us when you would like to come and how you would like to help.
Visiting with respect
Visitors Guideline
- Dress modestly: cover shoulders and knees, and remove hats inside the prayer hall.
- Remove your shoes before entering the prayer hall and shrine rooms.
- Walk clockwise around stupas, statues, prayer wheels and the monastery.
- Keep silent or speak softly during prayers and teachings.
- Ask permission before taking photographs of the monks or inside the shrine rooms.
- Do not point your feet towards statues, teachers or the shrine.
- Do not bring alcohol, tobacco or meat onto the monastery grounds.
- Offerings of butter lamps, khatas, incense and donations are always welcome.
Getting here
Thaley lies in Indrawati Rural Municipality, Sindhupalchok, a drive of several hours from Kathmandu followed by a mountain road. Please contact our Jorpati office before you travel and we will help with directions and transport.
Planning a visit or a stay?
Let us know your dates and the size of your group, and we will help with directions, transport and accommodation.