Education, Monastic Education, News
Lhomon Education (LME) is a grassroots initiative developing an innovative curriculum for Bhutanese students in a monastic setting. “Most of modern education is focused on having instead of being,” said Dawa Drukpa, head teacher at LME’s pilot project at Chökyi...
Education, Monastic Education, News
Santi Sena is Pali for a group that works for peace, social justice, and environmental protection. Santi Sena the organization is working to improve 30 Buddhist schools in the Svey Rieng and Prey Veng provinces of Cambodia. Students at Wat Svey Sokhoar Buddhist...
Education, Monastic Education, News
The Kanishka School is the newest monastic school for children ages 8 to 15 that KF is supporting. Just wrapping up its first full school year and housing 120 young monks, the school is part of Dzongsar Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö Institute, Dzongsar Khyentse...
Leadership and Teacher Training, Monastic Education, News, Training for the Future, Who we help
“We are trying to present 2,500-year-old values to the 21st century.” ––Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche From March 17 to 22, Khyentse Foundation sponsored the 2018 KF Excellence in Leadership and Management Workshop in Kathmandu, Nepal. Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Tsoknyi...
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...
