A large prayer ceremony requires a patron to provide funds for participants' meals and for offerings to enable the lamas to travel to a central location to carry out intensive prayers and meditation. Since the 1970s TNMC has regularly offered support to a ll four schools of Tibetan Buddhism in exile in order to encourage the performance of traditional ceremonies and prayers. In recent years, TNMC established the Ka-Ter Foundation to research the condition of ancient holy sites in Tibet, India, and the Hima layas important to the Nyingma tradition. The Ka-Ter Foundation funds restoration of buildings and art and the performance of traditional Nyingma practices. Recent recipients of funds include Dorje Drag, Mindroling, Samye, Shugseb, Palri, and Tshering Jon g in Central Tibet and other major monasteries in Tibet.
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Financial reports are published in Gesar Magazine. Since that time, all Buddhist traditions have venerated Bodh Gaya as the seat of enlightenment, the holiest, most p owerful sacred place on the planet and the central destination of generations of Buddhist pilgrims. Bodh Gaya's energy radiates through our world today, a living light that can be directed toward good purposes, harmony among all beings, and peace on earth . Pilgrimage and prayer at such a place opens new possibilities, reaffirms faith, and removes obstacles. The renovation of this holy place, neglected for centuries after Buddhism waned in India, has been a milestone in modern Buddhist history.