Roshana Devi Tulashar

Nepal

Roshana Devi Tulashar

Nepal

Roshana Devi Tulashar is a leader, a change agent of compassionate action, a role model for Nepalese women. Her efforts have reached the lives of Nepalese people and Her Excellency the President of Nepal, Bidya Devi Bhandari has awarded her for her Outstanding Contribution to the Nation.

As a Buddhist social service leader of Nepal, she brings forth blessings to others through pioneering and co-coordinating initiatives, such as: organizing blood donation campaigns, charitable services to elderly women and children in rural areas; Dhamma educational trips for children to the Kathmandu zoo, Boudhanath stupa and Kopan Monastery; eye camps for eyeglasses distribution and cataract surgeries; mental health camps; prison life enrichment by establishing libraries in prisons, delivering Buddha statues into prisons, establishing shrines, and Vesak celebrations in prisons. She has participated in disaster relief work for earthquake-affected communities in Sindhupalchok, distributing food and essential supplies. She is an active member of several Buddhist organizations, including: Buddhist Education and Development Nepal (BESDEC/Nepal) and Community Child Rescue Center (CCRC/Nepal).

She sponsors a one-month Dhamma Discourse program on Bodhi Television, Nepal's only Buddhist television channel. Professionally, she broke through the gender-barrier and is the first woman to be selected and qualified as the Director and Head of News, Visual, Sound and Camera Departments at Nepal Television. She has made a new milestone in Nepal's media history.

Her service work has not only reached the lives of Nepalese, as her social and cultural Buddhist activities have included many European nations, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka and India.

Roshana Devi Tulashar has received multiple certificates, and honors from Nepal Television and Shri Digukhya Guthi. Recently, she also participated as a member in the Guiness World Record for Yoga on January 12, 2026, she was awarded her for having organized the largest group of meditators of Hatha Yoga. She views meditation as more than relaxation and as a spiritual practice for understanding the mind, overcoming suffering and cultivating compassion.

She writes, "May my service contribute, even in a small way, to the preservation and flourishing of the Buddha Sasana. May all beings be free from suffering and walk the path toward peace and liberation."