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RESIDENTIAL STUDY PROGRAM:
ACCOMMODATION AND FEES

Accommodation
Full-time students in the Masters Program are encouraged to stay at the Institute in either a small shared dormitory or an individual room in one of the cabins built specifically to house participants in the program. The cabins are located on a beautiful terrace, within a very short walking distance from the main building. There are two rooms in each cabin, with separate entrances and a shared bathroom, each furnished with a bed, desk, chair, bookshelves, and ample room for storage. The student rate includes three meals a day. For ordained sangha attending the Masters Program, there is also the possibility of alternative accommodation in Takden Shedrup Targye Ling Monastery or Shenphen Samten Ling Nunnery.

The costs for accommodation and meals in September 2009 are:

Accommodation and Meal Costs
Monthly rate for room and board in a single room for lay students and sangha: €520

Monthly rate for room and board in a double room for lay students and sangha: €480

Monthly rate for room and board in dormitory for lay students: €430

Monks and nuns: Accommodation for monks in Takden Shedrup Targye Ling Monastery and for nuns in the small dormitory set aside for them is free of charge as long as they participate fully in the Masters Program classes and write all quizzes and exams. There is a small monthly fee for facilities that is divided between the resident sangha. Cooking facilities are available. Meals at the Institute are available at a discounted cost. For information regarding the availability and costs of accommodation for monks in the monastery, please contact the manager at olivieross@gmail.com and for nuns in the houses belonging to the nunnery, please contact the manager at infomonache@iltk.it.

Accommodation rates for Masters Program students are valid ten months a year, the two-month summer break (July-August) being excluded.

In addition, there are the following fees:

• Monthly tuition and materials fee: €100
A contribution to the running of the Masters Program as well as the costs of producing and photocopying the translations of relevant texts and supplementary study material. Ordained sangha are exempt from this fee as long as they write all exams and meet the attendance requirements for teachings and retreats.

• Annual Dharma course fee: €60
(1) Covers attendance at all weekend Dharma courses taught by Geshe Tenzin Tenphel offered at the Institute from September through June, and (2) includes liability insurance. While ordained sangha are not required to pay the Dharma course portion of this fee, they must pay the annual cost of liability insurance.

• Italian visa and residency permit fees
Prior to arriving in Italy, all non-Europeans must apply for a religious or student visa. In addition to the cost of the visa (please contact the Italian embassy in your home country for details), there is the additional cost of sending two invitation letters by courier - one to the student and one to the Italian embassy (about €92.00 in January 2008).

Upon arrival in Italy, all non-Italian students (both European and non-European) need to apply for residency permits. The cost includes:
• actual permit costs (€72.12 in January 2008)
• ILTK secretarial costs (€45.00 in January 2008)


• Annual health insurance fee
All non-European Community citizens are required either to show proof of having adequate personal coverage that covers health care in Italy or to pay an annual fee for health care in Italy (the rate depends on the age of the individual but in 2008 ranged from €100-180).


Work Study Program
Lama Tzong Khapa Institute offers a work-study program for students who have financial difficulties. While students must be able to support themselves financially for at least the first six months of the program, after that they can apply to join the work-study program at the beginning of the next semester. The students who have shown that they would be able to handle the added burden of contributing 13 hours a week of volunteer work to the Institute (instead of the usual 5 hours a week) and are accepted into the program will receive a reduction of half the cost of accommodation in a dormitory. While work-study students must be flexible in terms of the schedule and type of work they are willing to do, their responsibilities will not interfere with attendance at all classes and retreats that are an integral part of the Masters Program.