Living at the Lama Tzong Khapa Institute offers a rare opportunity to serve the Dharma while receiving teachings from our two resident Geshes and other qualified teachers.

Founded in 1976, the Institute is one of the first Dharma centres in Europe, an FPMT centre, and a member of the Italian Buddhist Union (UBI). Volunteering here means becoming part of a living tradition and contributing to a unique community that has welcomed students and practitioners from around the world for decades.

Volunteering at ILTK is more than service: it is a way to grow on your spiritual path, to serve all sentient beings, and to nourish an ethical way of life that creates a positive impact in the world. At the same time, you can also develop new professional skills, working alongside people from different cultures and backgrounds.

As a volunteer, you can help in many areas of daily life—whether in the kitchen, garden, library, administration, hospitality, mantra rolling, or simply by helping to keep the Institute clean and welcoming.

In exchange for your six hours per six days a week of service, we offer:

• Free access to Buddhist teachings

• Morning Meditation Sessions
• Course for volunteers “Introduction to Buddhism”

• Shared dormitory accommodation

• Nourishing vegetarian meals

• The support and warmth of a vibrant community

The benefit of offering your time and energy to the Dharma is immeasurable. We invite you to read Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s special message on the profound value of service.

A message from Lama Zopa Rinpoche

“Billions of thanks for your kindness, for working for, volunteering at, and supporting in various ways FPMT centers, projects, and services.

The main benefit of the centers is to offer Dharma teachings, teaching compassion; teaching from where suffering comes and from where happiness comes; teaching about karma, about how to stop negative karma and how to practice virtuous actions, which cause all the happiness up to enlightenment: the happiness of this life, the happiness of future lives, the ultimate happiness of liberation from samsara, and then the peerless happiness of enlightenment, which is everlasting happiness, with total cessation of the obscurations and completion of the realizations (sang gye). Achieving enlightenment is especially to liberate all the sentient beings from the oceans of samsaric suffering forever and lead them to peerless happiness, with cessation of the gross and subtle defilements and completion of the realizations. This is most important. This is what sentient beings need; this is their most important need.

So, now you understand how important it is to have a Dharma center, an FPMT center, which allows even one sentient being to achieve all this happiness up to enlightenment because of your help. You can see how that is most important.

Now you can see how that is of the utmost need for them. Now you can see how the benefits are limitless like the sky. Now you can feel that.” – Lama Zopa Rinpoche

How to apply?

This is your chance to contribute and be part of an inspiring journey. Before applying, please take a moment to read the following points carefully.

1. About FPMT
2. His Holiness the Dalai Lama
3. Lama Yeshe
4. Lama Zopa Rinpoche
5. Lama Tzong Khapa Institute
6. ILTK Lineage and Teachers
7. Lama Yeshe vision of FPMT
8. FPMT centres in the world

During your stay it is essential to respects  The Five Lay Precepts:

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