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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...
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FOCUS July 2020 Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo 200th Birthday Special Edition On the auspicious occasion of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo’s 200th birthday, Khyentse Foundation is honored to offer the redesigned e-book, The Life of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo by Jamgon Kongtrul,...
News, Scholarships, Text Preservation, Training for the Future
FOCUS June 2020 From TBRC to BDRC: A Brand New Buddhist Digital Library for All In this issue of KF Focus, we invite Jann Ronis, executive director of the Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC), KF’s long-term partner in the preservation of Buddhist...
Ashoka Grants, Communiques, News, Nurturing the Source, Revitalizing Buddhist Traditions, Scholarships, Training for the Future
FOCUS February 2020 Planting Seeds of Buddhadharma One thing that we learn from our teacher is that Buddhadharma has no boundary. From India to China, from Europe to the Americas, from the Himalayas to Machu Picchu, Buddhadharma benefits all sentient beings,...
Communiques, 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...