How To Become A Monk In Nepal. You’ll live in a monastery or at least among your peers, they’ll be your family. The kids are mostly from families who traditionally send one child to become a monk or a nun.
According to tibetan buddhist doctrine, small children can’t become a monk until they reach the age of 7 or 8 when they can drive crows away. If you’d like to become a monk, you need to choose your community well, because that’s all you’re going to have. Teach monks and nuns of all ages general knowledge and basic life skills.
By becoming a monk or a nun, one abandons the ways and appearance of a lay person and adopts the appearance and ways of an ordained person by keeping a number of vows.
I willingly would set my alarm at 4:45am to help the monks make momos, teach four classes, head to the market for vegetables, and return home around 7:30pm to study nepali. But know this, you will not be able to go to tibet to become a monk. Right environment + right guidance. Wangchuk rapten, 24, is a paramedic and outreach health worker in the highlands of nepal as well as being a buddhist monk who follows the teachings of thrangu rinpoche, a tibetan lama who came to nepal as a refugee and who has given education and healthcare to thousands (www.rinpoche.com) wangchuk is an ambassador for one young world, a network of over 6000.