We are not just aiming to offer you a technological tool, but to contribute with our capacities to the Dzogchen transmission, through active mutual support.
We started the year with 4106 registered users and reached December with 4645. Thank you all for inviting new users!
The most common nationalities among our frequent users are Italian and Russian. In fact, information in Russian and other languages is multiplying in the app! Thanks to ambassadors such as Anna Olefir who are building bridges between nations and to our translators Alessandra Policreti, Alejandra Krasnagoor, Anastasia Eremenko, Katka Drajsajtlova, David Formanek and Caroline Hotaling.
Our communication is supported visually by Tanita Ferrari’s graphics, who cheered up our communication.
Thirty percent of our current users use the app daily or weekly, with the most favorite functions being the Ganapuja and the Tibetan calendar.
If you are searching for an online Ganapuja to attend to, you can find it in our app. We are grateful to Gakyils and practice organizers who are filling all the dates with practice sessions and keeping you posted in the Ganapuja calendar.
While curating the Tibetan calendar, we also offered insight into some aspects of this astrological system, in our Newsletter and in The Mirror magazine. Stay tuned for the next article that will arrive to you in February, for Losar. Many thanks to our team member Nikol, who is studying this topic with precision and passion.
Newcomers
With over 500 newcomers in one year, Santi Maha Sangha teachers, Merigar East and Sangha App created a course and a discussion channel called First Steps on the Path. 160 participants could learn the main Dzogchen practices, receive book recommendations, and ask question to teachers. The course and the channel are also translated to Russian.
We especially thank Oxana, our team member and Blue Gakyil in Merigar East, for her relentless work in this program and to one of the participants, Olli Hartikainen, for his collaboration.
We collaborate with…
We are happy to share our words through The Mirror, the Dzogchen community journal. We promote it through a special section in the Home page, that leads you to the latest news.
We collaborate with community organizations to make their announcements reach you. We host channels for Practicing Together Global Chain, Dynamic Space of the Elements, Shang Shung Institute, Shang Shung Institute UK, Tibetan School of Medicine, along with those of gars and local communities.
Join the channels and turn your Notifications on, if you want to know when someone posts in the groups you are part of.
Promoting community events
This year Nikol and Oana were present at Namkhai Yeshi’s retreat in Merigar West, where we offered free WiFi and app support.
About 20 Gars and Lings around the world publish their events with Sangha App. We promote an average of 27 retreats, 10 events lasting one day and 526 practice sessions per month. 20% of our events are spontaneous practice groups, initiative of individual practitioners or teachers.
Since November 2025, we started offering a reader’s digest email with events selection, that you can receive in your inbox and on Norbunet.
To help you find information more easily, in December we will post a selection of teaching schedules of each teacher in 4 channels: Vajra Dance, Yantra Yoga, Santi Maha Sangha and Khaita.
Technological improvements
In its 7 years of existence, Sangha App has released 52 versions of the app on each platform (iOS and Android), plus the web-based interface (Sangha Web). Each brought improvements and solved bugs that, like in any application, appear. This year, out of a total of 164 tickets of bugs, 89 were closed/resolved.
You helped us improve the app by reporting your observations, bugs and suggestions. We have received 285 mails at hello@mahasangha.net in the last 16 months and solved 151 of them. We thank our technical team and the programmers for their work.
As we end this year, we wish to express our heartfelt gratitude to our supporters, donors, collaborators and all our users.
