When West Meets East | The Milinda Program: Training Western Buddhist Teachers for the 21st Century

Leadership and Teacher Training, News, Training for the Future

FOCUS November 2019   When West Meets East The Milinda Program: Training Western Buddhist Teachers for the 21st Century   We need to train Tibetan lamas. And then we also need to train western teachers, who actually know how to get a message across. But...

Honoring Excellence in Buddhist Studies: Nomination Window for KF Dissertation Award Opens October 1, 2019

Awards, News

Nominations will be accepted from October 1 through December 31, 2019 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 Buddhist studies, defended during the...

Lighting the Mahabodhi | Realizing the Dream

News

A half-year report from Bodhgaya On March 26 of this year, Siddhartha’s Intent India and Khyentse Foundation officially launched the Lighting the Mahabodhi project, the website went live, and fund raising begun. What has happened in the 6 months since then –...

2019 Outstanding Translation

Awards, News, Translation Page News, Translation Projects

Khyentse Foundation Prize for Outstanding Buddhist Translation Awarded Dr. Karl Brunnhölzl Wins Prize for First Translation of a Text on the Yogācāra School of Mahāyāna Buddhism Dr. Karl Brunnhölzl received the 2019 Khyentse Foundation Prize for Outstanding...

15th IATS Seminar Report

Education, News

Report by Nisheeta Jagtiani, July 2019 This year marked the 15th seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies (IATS). On the first evening of the seminar, Khyentse Foundation awarded prizes for outstanding dissertation and translation in 2019. Cécile...

An Excerpt From the 2019 Outstanding Translation

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Below is an excerpt from Karl Brunnhölzl’s A Compendium of the Mahāyāna: Asaṅga’s Mahāyānasaṃgraha and Its Indian and Tibetan Commentaries, winner of the 2019 KF Outstanding Translation Award. In contrast to the typical Madhyamaka reluctance to speak about...