When the late Chö Kyi Nyima returned to Kyimo Lung to build the retreat facility and teaching college Rinpoche made the following prediction:
"Now you must work for the dharma. A time will come when your tradition will flower like a lotus, it will completely blossom. You need to wait for this time."
Lama then returned. His initial idea had been to keep the numbers of monks and nuns at the new monastery small in order to contain expenses. However, Rinpoche feels that in these uncertain times anyone who comes to Nubri to practice should be accepted. Now there is a community of approximately one hundred monks and nuns at Nubri Gonpa. One of the extraordinary things about this monastery is that the hierarchies that often exist in traditional monasteries, that limit the nuns to very specific roles, do not exist in Nubri. The fifty nuns are educated in the exact same manner as the fifty monks. The nuns can read, write, make ritual objects (tormas), and conduct all the ceremonies of the lineage. They make up exactly half of the monastery’s population, other than living separately; they have equal access to all the Gonpa’s opportunities. Khabje Dodrup Chen went to Nubri for the consecration of the monastery and the 8-day meditation ceremony. The monks and the nuns were all fully ordained and two long retreats began, the first for eight nuns, and the second for nine monks. The monastery and the retreatants study all the Sutras, Tantras and Ter teaching pertaining to this special land. Long retreats continue to this day.
