KF Leadership & Mangement Workshops from Khyentse Foundation on Vimeo.
The next generation of Buddhist teachers, tulkus, lamas, and scholars (lay and monastic, eastern and western, male and female) has a historic opportunity to make a positive impact on society, as well as a tremendous responsibility to serve and nurture the Buddha’s wisdom tradition. Therefore the importance of rigorous training cannot be overstated. Khyentse Foundation has initiated and supported a number of leadership and teacher training programs and youth development programs that have triggered a wave of new activity in the field of monastic support.
What a wonderful program.
On a broader note, are those receiving a traditional education also getting some science? The survival of the Buddhadharma seems inconceivable to me without reconciling it with or at least opening a dialogue with the sciences…
regards,
Mat
We have been supporting a pilot project in Dewathang, Bhutan introducing science, math, and other subjects to the young monks. There is also a wonderful program supported by HH Dalai Lama called Science for Monks. We have sponsored two monks to attend. http://scienceformonks.org/
Hi,
How can a Tulku sign up for a management workshop?
Regards, Daniela
Hi Daniela,
You can email info@khyentsefoundation.org. Usually Rinpoche has been hand selecting the participants. The three upcoming trainings are being managed by the other monasteries and we will let them do the inviting.
Thanks for your interest.
To whom it may concern,
I have been living and practicing in Nepal for 10 years. My contact with the gompas has been both as a teacher of English and a practitioner. Some of the gompas in the Kathmandu and Pharping area have made good progress with the education of the young monks and nuns, but some have not. I do not think that it is helpful to the young children to wear robes on a daily basis, or to be required to do pujas that are requested by the community. Most of these young children are not capable of reading and understanding Tibetan, muchless the visualizations, etc. for the puja to be beneficial. This also is a bit like child labor. I have worked at one gompa that has no education and the young monks are only doing these pujas.
I witnessed the monks and nuns from the various gompas working day and night to provide assistance to local residents and the villages during the first days after the earthquake. I spent 10 days at the Palyul Nepal Monestary in Tinchurli and I was so touched by their efforts and moved by their experiences. I would like to see some type of Award for the Nepal monastics.
Thank you,
Ani Zangmo
There are several initiatives in Nepal designed to help educate the youth and we are very open to supporting those in need. All funding must come through the proper application channels. KF does have a mandate to support *Buddhist* individuals and institutions but we have found that with education it becomes a slightly more gray area for the reasons you say. Thanks for reading.