Ashoka Grants, Monastic Education, News
Pema Choling Shedra, recipient of a 2017 Ashoka Grant, provides basic and higher education in Buddhist philosophy for nuns. The first Buddhist College for women in Bhutan, the Shedra was established in the Bumthang region in 2001 to increase opportunities for...
Buddhist Education, Monastic Education, News, Who we help
Four Bhutanese nunneries — Sharab Yesel Choling, Samten Choling, and Upper and Lower Chothpo Goenpa — had been operating for years without proper classrooms and teaching materials, and even without trained teachers. That changed in 2012, when Khyentse Foundation...
Ashoka Grants, Monastic Education, News, Who we help
KF Supports Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo’s Dongyu Gatsal Ling By Emily Webber In the Kangra district of Northern India, nestled below the Himalayas and fresh with the growing trees and grasses of an ancient forest, a new generation of Buddhist teachers meets the modern...
Ashoka Grants, News, Who we help
By I. Suyin Lee During a recent visit to Bhutan, I met with Dr. Tashi Zangmo, founder and executive director of the Bhutan Nuns Foundation, in her office across the river from the city of Thimpu. Tashi had been in Europe for the past three weeks, had not yet checked...
