Dharmalaya’s Aspirations for Future Projects
Our long-term vision comprises a slowly-growing network of small-scale local centres for learning, service, and compassionate living and, eventually, larger centres on the order of a village-university.
Following is a brief description of three proposed future projects, illuminating our longer-term objectives.
Dharmalaya Ecovillage - proposed for future development
A larger service-learning community offering residential programs, a day school, green cottage industries, and an eco-resort. Strategic partnerships would be cultivated to promote collaboration, exchange, and other synergies. This self-sustaining, mission-driven ecovillage would serve as a showcase for sustainability solutions and holistic programming and the model would be replicable. Estimated budget: INR 230,00,000 (~US$480,000).
Dharmalaya Institute, New Delhi - proposed for future development
An urban adaptation of the Ecovillage model, designed to bring the benefits of our programmes to the nation’s capital city and to serve as an urban point of presence for the rural projects. After New Delhi, Dharmalaya Institutes could be established in other cities. Estimated budget: INR 300,00,000 (~US$615,000)
Ravangla Retreat Village - proposed for future development
A small, mission-driven ecovillage to be developed above the quiet Himalayan town of Ravangla in the Indian state of Sikkim, to offer a range of courses, retreats, and service-learning opportunities serving the local community and international students, volunteers, and ecotourists. Use of an ideal parcel of hilltop land owned by a local monastery has been offered to Dharmalaya by the monastery in concert with the state government official responsible for development of the land. Estimated budget: INR 86,00,000 (~US$180,000).
Help Us Make the Vision Manifest
After establishing the Dharmalaya Institute in Bir, Dharmalaya aspires to take the next step. All who are interested in the larger vision are encouraged to contact us to explore what we might do together in service of a more compassionate world.
