I visited this monastery up on this hill top a few weeks ago and blown away by the glamour and glitz of it all. Its incredible how much wealth is sent from abroad to build these monasteries. The monks generally live really comfortable lives and then its such a contrast to visit the nunneries. There is no way to control the distribution of funds, therefore most of the money immediatly goes to the men rather than supporting buddhist studies for women. Nepal is still very old fashioned in this sense.
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