WAYS TO GIVE
Pledging Your Support
If the success and the sustainability of a stable monastic community are important, please consider becoming a pledging member. Your monthly pledges support members of our monastic community, maintain our existing buildings, help meet our monthly operating expenses, provide translation services when required, support our visiting teachers, acquire ritual items and Dharma material, and reproduce Dharma texts for our monks and lay members. You can also designate your offering for a specific purpose. Your tax-deductible contribution can be made in various ways:
Zelle: Make your donations using the Zelle App. Contact us for details.
Through Our Website: Click the “DONATE” Button on the website to access several donation options.
Via U.S. Mail: Mail your check or money order in U.S. dollars. Please do not mail cash. Mail your donation to:
Dagom Geden Kunkyob Ling Monastery
2123 N. Pennsylvania Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202Please be sure to include your name and contact information for tax purposes. However, please note that under the law, any offerings made directly to monastics as personal offerings are not tax deductible.
On-site Offerings: Please place your offering in the donation box in our prayer space. Upon request, we can provide receipts.
PayPal Giving Fund: By using PayPal Giving Fund, 100% of your donations come to the monastery. Avoid searching through PayPal to donate, as this method does not ensure that the monastery will receive 100% of the donation.
Thus for everything that lives,
As far as are the limits of the sky,
May I be constantly their source of livelihood
Until they pass beyond all sorrow.
— Shāntideva, Chapter 3, Verse 22, Bodhicharyāvatāra
(The Way of the Bodhisattva)
Other Ways to Help
Practicing Generosity
KROGER COMMUNITY REWARDS PROGRAM: If you shop at Kroger, please consider selecting Dagom Geden Kunkyob Ling as your charity. Kroger has made communicating with its Community Rewards program easy for our members and friends. Go to its website address: www.kroger.com/communityrewards, and this becomes an effortless way to support the Monastery.
ELECTRONIC TRANSFERS AND OFFERINGS
Offerings by Electronic Fund Transfer: You can set up monthly or quarterly offerings via electronic transfer or as bill-paying options with your banking institution.
Offerings by International Bank Wire: To transfer funds by wire, contact Ven. Lobzang Dorje at the Monastery office (via phone or email). We recommend this method for amounts of $3000 or more.
MATCHING GIFTS: If you or your partner work for a company with a matching gift program, you might be able to double your gift to the Monastery.
OFFERING AIR MILES: You can donate your airline miles so our monastics can travel to retreats, teachings, and other Dharma-related events.
PLANNED GIVING: You can designate Dagom Geden Kunkyob Ling Buddhist Monastery as a beneficiary in your Last Will and Testament. You may (1) name a specific gift amount, (2) assign a percentage of your total estate to the Monastery, and/or (3) designate a share of the remainder after gifts to your heirs.
STOCK TRANSFERS: If you want to offer stock, please get in touch with the office. We can provide the information you need to send to your broker.
TAX-FREE IRA ROLLER: If you are 70½ years old or older, you can make a qualified charitable distribution to Dagom Geden Kunkyob Ling as a tax benefit since it is a registered 501(c)(3) organization, and this becomes a straightforward way to receive a tax benefit. The IRS allows you to give up to $100,000 annually from your IRA directly to a qualified charity like the Monastery without paying income taxes on the donated money. You can make such a monthly distribution, or you can make a lump sum offering annually.
For sentient beings, poor and destitute,
May I become a treasure ever-plentiful,
And lie before them closely in their reach,
A varied source of all that they might need.
— Shāntideva, Chapter 3, Verse 10, Bodhicharyāvatāra
(The Way of the Bodhisattva)