Monks undergo many hours of studies and good health is a must for study. All the food for the monks from the highest Abbot to the newest novice or new monks in the monastery is supplied from the monastery's common kitchen. A breakfast, a slab of bread, and a sugarless tea. Lunch consists of vegetables and bread, sometimes rice, and dinner of rice or Tibetan noodles (Thukpa). All the foods available or served in the monastery are vegetarian food. The monks cooked and work in the kitchen by rotation, the supervisor monks period of one month and after every one month, new supervisor monks take charge of the kitchen, they are helped and assisted by a group of about twenty monks on a day kitchen duty.
Monks by rotation have to do kitchen duty or canteen duty, they have to reach the kitchen at 5 am in the morning.
With the increase in the monks' population and rise in the price of commodities, the monastery is facing great difficulties as it has to see the other needs of the monks such as accommodation, medical, and so on. The small donation that we received is used also for purchasing the utensils, Steam Boiler, and cooking gas for the kitchen.
So as to raise funds for the Monk kitchen expenses, a Food Foundation project was started up where funds received on this specific project were deposited in the bank, and the interest derived on that amount is used to cover up the expenses of monastery common kitchen.
