About Us


Loseling Clinic, which was earlier known as ‘Loseling Dispensary,’ was established in 1984 primarily to provide free First Aid and general medicine to the young students of Drepung Loseling School. The medical service later expanded to include Loseling’s elder monks and then finally to all the monks and laypeople of this area. We offered half-price medications and basic treatments needed for everyone who came to us. Though we underwent hardships and financial crises during all those years, we survived with the kind support of generous people.

There has been a rapid increase in number of inhabitants at Mundgod, the poor rural area where Loseling is located. The population of Loseling Monastery was less than 500 monks in 1984. Over past 20 years it has grown to more than 2500 monks currently. Though we have many monks from the Himalaya regions as well as from Nepal, Bhutan and Tibetan communities in India, most of them are new arrivals from Tibet. Many of the monks have not had vaccinations or access to good medical facilities.

There were lots of problems for ailing patients such as the amount of time, financial costs and the language barrier when they went out of the monastery for the standard diagnosis and treatment. As a result, Drepung Loseling monastery expanded its dispensary into a full-fledged clinic which could provide treatment for patients using sophisticated medical equipment. This new Loseling clinic was inaugurated by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on December 9, 2002.

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