Tours
For many years, The Pureland Project led small-group journeys to Kham in Eastern Tibet, a remote region of rugged mountains and traditionally nomadic communities. These journeys offered participants an opportunity to experience Tibetan culture, spiritual traditions, and daily life while raising funds for the communities that welcomed us. We no longer offer direct trips to Tibet, but we welcome inquiries from those interested in visiting or learning more. Please email us with questions.
Today, The Pureland Project offers fundraising, service-learning journeys to India, Nepal, and Bhutan. These small-group experiences are designed to connect travelers more deeply with the cultures, landscapes, spiritual traditions, and communities of the Himalayan region while raising funds to support our nonprofit work and local partners.Trips are led by meg ferrigno (Pema Lhamo), a student of Ayang Rinpoche and Garchen Rinpoche who lived in India (2002-2003), Nepal (2003-2005)Nangchen from (2005–2008) and has led cultural journeys in the Himalayan region for more than a decade. H.E. Garchen Rinpoche has requested her to share meditation practices (2021) and she holds a YTT certification(2015), having fallen in love with yoga and meditation practice in 2000. Her approach is rooted in relationships developed over many years and in a desire to share the extraordinary cultural and spiritual traditions of the region with respect. meg volunteers her time leading these journeys so that they can serve as fundraisers for The Pureland Project and the communities and projects we support. These are more than tours. They are opportunities to travel with purpose, learn through relationship, and help sustain the cultures and communities that make these places extraordinary.
Interested in visiting Tibet or joining an upcoming journey to India, Nepal, or Bhutan? Please contact us for current opportunities and information please fill out the interest form.
First TreeHouse Tibet Tour
Second PLP Tour (2010)
INDIGENOUS BRIDGES PROGRAM
The Indigenous Bridges Program creates opportunities for Indigenous people from different parts of the world to meet, travel, learn from one another, and exchange knowledge rooted in culture, land, and community. The Pureland Project has incorporated Indigenous exchange into our cultural journeys for years, creating space for conversations across cultures about traditional knowledge, spirituality, land stewardship, language, cultural preservation, and the shared challenges Indigenous communities face. These exchanges have become some of the most meaningful parts of our journeys building relationships that extend far beyond the trip itself.
We believe these connections are both fruitful and important. Indigenous communities hold distinct cultures and histories, but opportunities to meet across borders can create powerful spaces for solidarity, learning, and the exchange of ideas and traditions.
Indigenous Bridges ScholarshipTo continue this work, The Pureland Project reserves one fully scholarship-supported seat on each trip for an Indigenous participant. The application is intentionally simple. We want applicants to tell us who they are, about their community and cultural connections, why this exchange is meaningful to them, and what they hope to bring home from the experience. Because only one scholarship seat is available per journey, selection is highly competitive.
For our Annual May journey, applications are due March 1 each year. The selected participant joins the group not simply as a traveler, but as an important part of the cultural exchange that makes these journeys meaningful. Indigenous Bridges is about creating relationships across lands, cultures, and generations,making space for Indigenous people to learn directly from one another and carry those relationships home.
Our Philosophy
The Pureland Project supports community-led projects that sustain culture, strengthen communities, and care for the natural world. Our work is rooted in the understanding that cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, environmental health, and community wellbeing are deeply interconnected. We partner with communities to support the priorities they identify, from education and cultural preservation to environmental stewardship, food systems, and community wellbeing.
Rather than arriving with predetermined solutions, our projects begin by listening. We believe the people who live within a community understand its needs, traditions, and environment best. Our role is to help provide resources, build connections, and support locally led solutions.
Across our projects, we seek to protect cultural knowledge, strengthen relationships between people and place, and support communities working toward a more just and sustainable future.
Celebrating culture. Sustaining nature.