FOCUS: Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo | 200th Birthday Special Edition
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,...
FOCUS: KF 2019 Annual Report: Buddhist Children, Cultural Buddhists, and Buddhist Stakeholders
FOCUS MAY 2020Khyentse Foundation 2019 Annual Report Buddhist Children, Cultural Buddhists, and Buddhist Stakeholders In this May Focus, we present the foundation’s 2019 Annual Report. The report features Rinpoche’s December address to the KF Board of Directors, the...
FOCUS: Following in the Buddha’s Footsteps
FOCUS April 2020 Following in the Buddha's Footsteps Inaugural Teachings at Buddha Pada, India We are delighted to report on Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche’s recent teachings at Buddha Pada, a newly established Himalayan center for the study and practice of...
FOCUS: The Middle Way: KF Invests in Education for Children
FOCUS April 2020 THE MIDDLE WAY: KF Invests in Education for ChildrenThinking broadly, if a kid grows up in a situation where there is information on Buddha, dharma and sangha—that is already a success. Looking at the larger world, most schools don’t talk about...
FOCUS: Planting Seeds of Buddhadharma
FOCUS February 2020 Planting Seeds of BuddhadharmaOne 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, and...
FOCUS: Bringing Us Closer to the Buddha’s Words | Official Online Publication of the 1st sutra of the Kumarajiva Project
FOCUS January 2020Bringing Us Closer to the Buddha’s Words Online Publication of the First Sutra of the Kumarajiva Project Every single word spoken by the Buddha is excellent and precious.WISHING EVERYONE A HAPPY CHINESENEW YEAR!May the year of the rat be...
FOCUS: Thanks for Giving: Stories of KF’s Matching Sponsors and Monthly Donors
FOCUS December 2019 Thanks for Giving Stories of KF's Matching Sponsors and Monthly DonorsWe should view an offering of one rupee as an example of extreme generosity. Think that this is so amazing and encourage and praise and dedicate the merit of that. Then if...
FOCUS: When West Meets East | The Milinda Program: Training Western Buddhist Teachers for the 21st Century
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
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...
FOCUS: Lighting the Mahabodhi | Realizing the Dream
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 – thanks...
The Kumarajiva Project Is Launched
"Chinese civilization is very, very important for the survival of Buddhism." —Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche Section of the Diamond Sutra, a handwritten copy by Zhang Jizhi, based on Kumarajiva's translation from Sanskrit to Chinese. Khyentse Foundation is pleased to...
December FOCUS: Board Meeting Update
Read the December Focus here.