Rinpoche set up a complete Buddhist studies course, which combines traditional religious subjects with the basics in the three R's and soon foreign languages and computer science will be added. A hundred or so monks now study there. In his attempt to spread Buddhist teachings throughout the world, Rinpoche has visited many European countries (Germany, France, Holland, Italy, Sweden) as well as America (the US and Canada), along with Asia (India, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Singapore, Tibet, Vietnam), not to mention Africa (Togo). Having brought together numerous disciples, he has founded Dharma studies and practice centers in France, Holland, Italy, and Indonesia as well as in Taiwan. As far as the projects he feels very strongly about are concerned, Rinpoche is currently setting up outreach programs in numerous monasteries in Eastern Tibet he is in charge of. Those monasteries have to cope with difficult practical and financial problems so much so that at present they are unable to successfully accomplish their mission. After long years of hardships, restoring dilapidated buildings or those unfit for habitation, laying water pipes along with bathroom plumbing in the habitable ones, and building new housing, has become a matter of some urgency. The ever increasing inflow of young monks in the last few years has in effect turned housing into an unresolved issue that has exacerbated the critical shortage of teaching premises and teachers. The Golok Gönsar monastery is a case in point, which, like many other monasteries, is seriously underfunded. A project is afoot to erect a large building with several classrooms and adjoining conveniences, such as a library, a health center, housing for teachers and doctors, a kitchen and a cafeteria, a store, rest rooms and so on.