Academia Initiative, Academic Endowments, Activities, Ashoka Grants, Communiques, News, Nurturing the Source, Training for the Future
FOCUS September 2020 Structuring the Longevity of Buddhist Studies in Universities It’s back-to-school time for many, and in this issue we share some news from our academic development area. First, Khyentse Foundation, in partnership with the...
Academia Initiative, Academia Page New, Academic Endowments, Activities, Communiques, News, Training for the Future
September 2020 After an extensive international search, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan is happy to announce that it has selected a scholar to fill its new position in Tibetan Buddhist Studies, funded by an endowment from...
Academia Initiative, Academia Page New, Academic Endowments, Activities, Awards, News, Training for the Future
September 2020 Update on Oct 29, 2020: The nomination window now extents to January 31, 2021 for this round. The Khyentse Foundation Award for Outstanding PhD Dissertation in Buddhist Studies is given annually to the author of a doctoral dissertation in the field of...
Academia Initiative, Academia Page New, Academic Endowments, Activities, Communiques, News, Training for the Future
September 2020 Khyentse Foundation recently announced a new program to provide selected universities with much-needed support to fund doctoral students in Buddhist Studies. Depending on factors such as location, university costs, and existing support, grants up to...
Academia Initiative, Academia Page New, Academic Endowments, Activities, Communiques, News, Training for the Future
By Anja Hartmann September 2020 Anja Hartmann: Member of the Board of Directors & Chair of the Academic Development Committee Global academia as we know it is a European invention. As Walter Rüegg put it in the foreword to his book, A History of the...
Academia Initiative, Academia Page New, Academic Endowments, Activities, Communiques, News, Training for the Future
September 2020 Khyentse Foundation, together with the German Tara Foundation, has secured a tenured professorship in Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich. This is the third gift of this kind that KF has sponsored and the first...
