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ACCOMMODATION
Tushita runs very busy residential courses and does not
operate as a guest house. Therefore our rooms are available
only for:
* Participants of our scheduled
residential courses
or group retreats.
* Experienced meditators doing their own
individual STRICT Buddhist retreats (of a
MINIMUM 10 days duration).
and the following information is relevant only in these cases.
Tushita’s accommodation is basic, but clean and comfortable.
If this is your first stop in India, you may have expectations based on
Western hotel standards and be disappointed by the lack of amenities in
our rooms (this is a Dharma centre, so forget about the mini-bar!).
However, most of the people who come to study at Tushita are
backpackers or long-term travelers on a budget and if like them you
have a little more experience of average accommodation standards in
India, we are confident that you will be satisfied.
Tushita
offers the following accommodation options for students attending our
courses and group retreats (individuals wanting to do a personal
retreat please visit: Program > Personal
Retreat):
- single rooms with
private (Indian squat-style) toilet, shared showers
(very limited number)
- single rooms with shared
toilet/showers (very limited number)
- small dormitories (3 - 4
beds) with shared toilet/showers
- large dormitories (7 -
14
beds) with shared toilet/showers
 Our
rooms are very simply furnished, with a bed and mattress. Sheets
and pillows are provided, but we request that you
bring your own sleeping bag. It is usually quite cold
here in the mountains
at night, even if it's very hot in the plains of
India.
We can only provide you with ONE blanket each, which won’t keep
you warm enough at night.
Unfortunately Tushita cannot provide you with
more blankets, since we have a very heavy monsoon season (with
3 months of almost constant rain) and no way to keep all the bedding
safely protected from the monsoon mould. We are currently experimenting
with a system of having a few duvets available for rental (contact us
to check if this is possible for your course), but if you plan to
travel in this part of the country, a sleeping bag is advisable
anyway.
Please read Staying
at Tushita Guidelines before considering staying here.
We are a meditation centre
with resident nuns and monks, so couples
and men/women must have separate accommodation. Friends and family of
the same gender are strongly encouraged to stay in separate rooms to
help support silence and focus on the course/retreat.
If you
come for one of our Introduction to Buddhism courses you
cannot
request a particular type of room. At Tushita we have a tried and
tested system and this is how it works: when you register for a course,
your name is added to a list. We use the numerical order of this list
to allocate rooms at 1pm on the first day of the course. This means
that early registration gives you a greater chance of getting a single
room.
After
many years of running these courses, we have found
this
system to be the fairest and most efficient; please do
not put us in
the position of having to say no by asking for special accommodation!
However, if you are older, physically challenged or have medical
problems please
let us know, and we will do our best to accommodate your needs.
MAY ALL BEINGS BE HAPPY!
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