JHAMTSE GATSAL CHILDREN’S COMMUNITY
A garden of love and compassion.
In the Himalayan foothills of Arunachal Pradesh, children and adults live, learn, work, reflect, and grow together in a community built around a simple belief: love and compassion can transform lives.
MORE THAN A SCHOOL
A place to belong
Jhamtse Gatsal is a home and a family-like community as well as a place of learning. Children grow within relationships of care, shared responsibility, and belonging, surrounded by adults who make love and compassion visible in daily life.
THE TEACHERS OF LIFE
The people who hold the community together.
At Jhamtse Gatsal, teaching happens everywhere. The adults who care for children, teach, cook, grow food, maintain the community, and keep daily life moving are all Teachers of Life—modeling love and compassion through how they live and serve.
Amalas
Creating family, care, and belonging.
Teachers
Guiding learning of heart, mind, and body.
Nourishment & Land
Feeding the community and caring for the land with patience and service.
Support & Operations
Keeping the community safe, connected, and growing.
LEARNING & GROWING
Nurturing heart, mind, and body.
Every child is different, with a natural pace and their own needs, gifts, and contributions. Like gardeners, the adults at Jhamtse nurture the whole child. Learning moves through listening and doing, reflection and discussion, then purposeful engagement with the world.
LOVE & COMPASSION IN PRACTICE
Love becomes something we do.
Love and compassion are practiced through daily choices: reflecting on actions and their consequences, sharing responsibilities, caring for one another, and finding concrete ways to serve. These practices help children connect learning with responsibility for themselves and others.
LIVING WITH THE EARTH
Everyone is an eco-steward.
Sustainability is woven into daily life and education. Children and adults grow food, care for soil and seeds, reduce and reuse waste, and learn to treat water, energy, buildings, and the land as shared responsibilities. The work begins close to home and grows through practice.
SEE WHAT GROWS
Stories of lives taking root.
The clearest picture of Jhamtse is found in the lives shaped here and the many ways people carry compassion, learning, and purpose forward.
EXPERIENCE JHAMTSE
See the community through film.
Two films offer intimate windows into Jhamtse Gatsal at different moments in its story.
Tashi and the Monk
Meet the young community and the vision of love and compassion taking shape.
Loving Karma
Return years later to see how the community, its relationships, and its practice continue to grow.
BECOME PART OF THE STORY
There is a place for you in the Jhamtse family.
Stay close to the community and help love, learning, and belonging keep growing.