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Construction works’ update, 14.11.2022

Khenpola has left long time ago but a beautiful autumn continued after his visit and we have slowly done some more works – inside one house, the structure for walls has been made and we have painted some more exterior wall boards – the quantity we did in summer was only enough for one house, now the boards for almost two more houses have been done. We are very thankful for the continuous donations and now the windows for the houses have been ordered (we got a very cheap offer for aluminum-wood windows which are very little used and in excellent condition – 100 euros per piece).

We still hope we will have soon enough money to start the sewage system works together with the installation of pipes and electrical cables (at least 15 000 euros). If we can do that, it would be possible to stay in the houses from next summer and use it for temporary retreats before the real three-year retreat could start. For example, Sungtrul Rinpoche has said that he would like to stay for one week next summer in 2023.

Khenpo Karma Wangyel is attaching the prayer flag as high as he can
Surroundings of the retreat place in autumn

One part of freshly painted boards (we did it at home nearby and brought them to the retreat place)
Rooms are coming (kitchen, bathroom and the living room)
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Khenpo Karma Wangyel in Estonia in October 2022

Yeshe Khorlo 3-year retreat center’s construction news (building site: in the middle of Estonia, Umbusi village). Khenpo Karma Wangyel is now in Estonia doing practice every day on the retreat land to attract abundance and avert obstacles. Everybody is welcome to join! Rain is not a problem, we can already sit in the house for practice. We could manage to finish many works in September, including the main structure of Khenpola’s house, roofs and floors in each house, as we got many helpful donations this time. We still have money to start inside works (inside walls) and finish outside walls (only one house has a grey boarding almost finished, the others are not done yet (material arrives tomorrow), but we still need more (for windows, sewage system, pump system for water), kitchen-hall). We are extremely thankful for any donation! Bank Transfer Details:

Receiver: YESHE KHORLO EESTI MTÜ

Account: EE212200221065708346

SWEDBANK, SWIFT code/BIC: HABAEE2X

Paypal: yeshekhorloest@admin

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New update about construction works: 02.09.2022

We have a new perspective now – we can look at the retreat houses from the Khenpola’s house’s roof top. This week, the main effort was Khenpo Karma Wangyel’s house and the aim was to make it waterproof – the roof is covered now with waterproof roof cover. And the work continues. One of the retreat houses has floor already made, the other two houses still have no floor but this week we bought all the material necessary – around 1000 euros. Insulation layer (30 cm of rockwool) is almost done for the floor. As now the work which are going on, are quite extensive, we really need everybody’s help. We are very thankful to those, who already donated. Every small amount will be of help also!

Our bank details:

PayPal: yeshekhorloest@gmail.com

Aadress: Umbusi village, Põltsamaa parish, Jõgevamaa county, 48026.

Bank Transfer Details:

Receiver: YESHE KHORLO EESTI MTÜ

Account: EE212200221065708346

SWEDBANK,  SWIFT code/BIC: HABAEE2X

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Construction works update 22.08.2022

As of 22nd August 2022, you can see on the photos that the houses have roofs. We had a difficult summer because the main constructor left and we had lot of trouble to find quickly another one. Finally we found one reliable person from Ukraine. He did not have much time to come up to now – he just managed to finish the roof works but from now onwards, he can work one full month for us.

From inside the wall insulation of 25 centimeters is done, now the floor insulation has to be finished (30 cm). Also the wind protection cover is placed.

We urgently need some funds to complete the window works for three houses (we have got an offer about 1000 euros per house – that is to say, we should get the windows for three houses (plus Khenpola’s house very soon).

We also need an urgent help for painting works that we could finish the boarding of the three houses. Please contact us if you have any help to offer.

Two houses
The third house
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Work in progress (9th of May 2022)

As of 9th of May 2022, two houses have most of the insulation works done, one is missing a roof construction. We are still waiting for the wood for supporting rails for the roof – there has been an exceptional delay of two weeks and it may only arrive next week. Roof tiles arrived already.

5 cm of insulation has to be added.
Roof tiles
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Construction works

As of 02.11.2023:

As Rinpoche has announced that the first retreat of three-year should start latest in late summer 2024, we urgently need your help!

We have done all the work mainly with the help of few kind sponsors and the main sponsorship comes from the people who personally will start the retreat.

Thanks to their donations, we have money:

  • for sewage system and cables (around 30 000 euros).

But we do not have money:

  • for finishing works of the four houses that are already there (5000 euros each, that makes 20 000). This is possible in case we do all the work by ourselves and do not hire any constructors. All the inside works (walls, ceiling, bathroom etc) are not yet done.
  • for two new houses (15 000 each, that makes 30 000).
  • We also lack funds for kitchen (gathering hall) construction (only foundation is there).

As of 24th of April, three houses are almost up and as soon as the roof is installed, insulation works can start.

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Update of the construction works as of 15.04.2022

In March 2022, proper building works of the retreat huts have started. In winter, however, a parking space was created, more drainage work done and finally the well drilled. Also an official project of the house was done and the building works registered in a building register.

The project of the house (the final modification which cannot be seen on the project is that it will be 24 m2 inside the house, not 25,3m2): https://yeshekhorlo.ee/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/202202_EP_AR-5-01_1-korrus.pdf

As of 15 of April 2022, one house is up and waterproof. (next works: walls: insulation and clapboarding, roof: a stone roof; windows and doors). For two houses, we have used thick plywood as a wind barrier board (one seen on the photo). Usually it is an expensive material but we obtained a quantity of them as a factory leftover with a very affordable price (there can be some darker spots or very tiny defects which does not influence the building quality).

Parts (floor, walls and rafters) of the second house are laying down and need to be put together (we have to wait for a soil to be a little bit drier because the telehandler cannot lift the pieces up when it is too wet on that location).

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For the third house, the floor is done.

Works for Khenpo Karma Wangyel’s house have started as well. This house is necessary for the teachers who come here to teach the retreatants (Khenpo Karma Wangyel as well as Gangteng Rinpoche). The house is located outside of the enclosure of the three-year retreat. This house is entirely made with Khenpo Karma Wangyel’s personal money up to now (buying of the building materials for more than 2000 euros, soon, post foundation works will continue).

Khenpo Karma Wangyel’s future house
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Khenpo Karma Wangyel in Estonia (2021 October) and his request to the Sangha

Yesterday, Khenpo Karma Wangyel arrived to Umbusi village to see the land of the retreat center and make new plans. This summer, due to lack of money, there was no big progress in works, we have only done some maintenance works (cutting the bushes and grass on the area), and road smoothening works as in some places a layer of gravel had to be added (there was lot of difficulties with the road construction and the final constructor had to repair the mistakes which were done by the first constructor who actually could not manage to do it).

Khenpo Karma Wangyel would be really happy if there some more people in Europe who could understand the value of staying in retreat and or support this kind of project. Of course he really appreciates the help and support of those few people who have made this project their personal business.

As of October 2021, we have got one more donation that we could start the building of the first house but for the whole of the project it would be better if we could finish the construction of the first houses. Khenpo Karma Wangyel would be very happy if this could happen very soon.

Below you can find the information for money transfers:

PayPal: yeshekhorloest@gmail.com

Bank Transfer Details (it is almost for free in Europe and just few clicks away):

Receiver: Yeshe Khorlo Eesti MTÜ (Address: Umbusi village, Põltsamaa parish, Jõgevamaa county, 48026).

International account number: EE212200221065708346

Bank name: SWEDBANK

SWIFT code/BIC: HABAEE2X

Khenpo Karma Wangyel in the middle of the retreat center’s land.
Beautiful sights on the road to Umbusi today.
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Road works completed

In the beginning of March 2021, after lot of unforeseen difficulties, the road to Yeshe Khorlo three-year retreat site was completed.

In the beginning we had lot of challenges, as we had to change the company (because soon in the beginning it came out that the first company did not use a proper technology to construct a road in a place which was more wet than usual), but then finally found a constructor who used a much better techology to construct this kind of road – therefore instead of stripping the onsoil and filling it with a huge amount of stones and gravel), the new company who was an expert in construction of wet forest roads, heaped the earth and higher than the rest of the ground, covered it with geotextile and a usual layer of gravel was spread on top of it. The road has ditches on both sides (more than half of the length) to be sure that the water is led away. Already 45 tons vehicles were driving it (with gravel). Only some more finishing works are still to be done.