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  • Text Preservation

The Fragile Palm Leaves Foundation

May 2, 2025
By maryann
KF talks to Professor Peter Skilling about FPL, the importance of its work, and some of his other activities.
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  • It's Fantastic Series
No.13

The House of the Spirits

March 6, 2025
By maryann
One of the most important and beloved Latin-American works of the 20th century, The House of the Spirits (1982) is the debut novel of Chilean-American novelist Isabel Allende.
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  • Practitioner Support

Losar Tashi Delek!

February 28, 2025
By maryann
To celebrate the Year of the Wood Snake, Khyentse Foundation is pleased to present our seventh annual calendar to encourage you in your practice throughout the year. This year’s calendar is offered in 28 languages.
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  • Academia

A Sojourn in Pune as Khyentse Foundation Visiting Professor

February 21, 2025
By maryann
Prof. Mattia Salvini Dharmavardhana Jñānagarbha of the International Buddhist College, Thailand, held the visiting professorship in April and May 2024.
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  • Practitioner Support
  • Words of Wisdom Series

The Future of the Buddhadharma

January 23, 2024
By maryann

On December 2, 2023, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche addressed Khyentse Foundation’s Board of Directors regarding the future of the buddhadharma. In particular, he stressed the importance of paying attention to the large numbers of people born in traditionally Buddhist places, including those who have migrated elsewhere. For want of a better word (and with no negative implications), Rinpoche termed such people “hillbilly Buddhists.” Here are some excerpts from Rinpoche’s address.

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Goodman Lecture Series
Features lectures delivered by foremost Buddhist Studies scholars from our partner institutions and universities in Asia, Europe, and North America.
  • Academia
  • Goodman Lecture Series
No.30

Professor Jiang Wu

The University of Arizona
Enlightenment in Dispute: The Reinvention of Chan Buddhism in 17th-Century China (Lecture in Chinese)
January 10, 2025
By maryann
This lecture centers on the recent translation of Professor Jiang Wu’s monograph, offering a comprehensive examination of the complex history and reinvention of the Chan Buddhist tradition in 17th-century China.
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  • Academia
  • Goodman Lecture Series
No.29

Dr. Catherine Dalton

84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha and Rangjung Yeshe Institute
Study and Translation as Buddhist Practice
October 25, 2024
By maryann
In this talk, Catherine explores how integrating the study of Buddhism and the translation of its texts with committed experiential training can lead to a more effective and fulfilling approach to both learning and translation.
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  • Academia
  • Goodman Lecture Series
No.28

Dr. Lata Deokar

Savitribai Phule Pune University
Doing Lexicography Religiously
August 24, 2024
By maryann
This talk discusses how ancient Buddhist authors approached words and their meanings, how they documented meanings, and whether they did conventional lexicography or did away with it.
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  • Goodman Lecture Series
No.27

Tung-Ming Chao

East China Normal University
Key Points and Characteristics of Tiantai Buddhism and the Faxiang (Chinese Yogācāra) School 天台佛學與法相唯識佛學的要點與特色
August 14, 2024
By maryann
This lecture primarily introduces the key philosophical characteristics and points of two major Buddhist schools during the Sui and Tang dynasties in China: Tiantai Buddhism and the Faxiang (Chinese Yogācāra) School.
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  • Academia
  • Goodman Lecture Series
No.26

Professor Shenghai Li

National Taiwan University
The Aesthetics of Disgust in Sanskrit Buddhist Literature 梵文佛教文學中厭惡的美學
April 20, 2024
By maryann
These texts show how the Buddhist intelligentsia in late Indian Buddhism might have reflected on aesthetics and may reveal something about an emerging Buddhist approach.
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It's Fantastic Series
Every couple of months, we share with you a personal recommendation from Rinpoche about one of his favorite things—a book, a movie, a piece of music, a coffee shop, a bookstore … And of course, “You don’t have to go through these. Only if you have time to kill.”
  • It's Fantastic Series
No.13

The House of the Spirits

March 6, 2025
By maryann
One of the most important and beloved Latin-American works of the 20th century, The House of the Spirits (1982) is the debut novel of Chilean-American novelist Isabel Allende.
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  • It's Fantastic Series
No.12

Millennium Mambo and Hou Hsiao-hsien

November 27, 2024
By maryann
A stylish and seductive submersion into the techno-scored neon nightlife of Taipei, Millennium Mambo is a transfixing trance-out of a movie.
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  • It's Fantastic Series
No.11

Zhu Xianmin

September 13, 2024
By maryann
Since the 1960s and ’70s, Zhu Xianmin has employed the creative path of documentary photography to explore the vicissitudes of daily life, devoting himself to capturing the lives of ordinary people on film.
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  • It's Fantastic Series
No.10

A book …

April 16, 2024
By maryann
Rinpoche wishes to share with you a book he is reading at the moment. Guess which book!
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  • It's Fantastic Series
No.9

Daidō Moriyama

April 11, 2024
By maryann
“I’ve always wanted to frame my movies based on Daidō Moriyama’s photos. But it’s difficult. It’s really, really difficult because it’s almost like we have a set of ideas about what is a beautiful frame.”
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Words of Wisdom Series
Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche speaking on pressing topics for the modern practitioner.
  • Practitioner Support
  • Words of Wisdom Series
No.15

The Future of the Buddhadharma

January 23, 2024
By maryann
Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche addressed Khyentse Foundation’s Board of Directors regarding the future of the buddhadharma. In particular, he stressed the importance of paying attention to the large numbers of people born in traditionally Buddhist places, including those who have migrated elsewhere.
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  • Practitioner Support
  • Words of Wisdom Series
No.14

Lying Flat Buddha

May 17, 2023
By maryann
The title refers to the recent phenomenon in mainland China of “lying flat” (Mandarin: “tang ping”), a type of passive resistance to the high pressure and competitiveness of contemporary life.
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  • Practitioner Support
  • Words of Wisdom Series
No.13

Invocation

January 4, 2023
By Alicja Żmigrodzka
A beautiful invocation written by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche on the last day of the tumultuous year of 2022.
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  • Practitioner Support
  • Words of Wisdom Series
No.12

Rinpoche on Gliding with the Changes

December 20, 2022
By Alicja Żmigrodzka
At the annual Khyentse Foundation board of directors meeting on December 3, 2022, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche addressed the group and spoke about bravely stepping into an unknown future. Here are excerpts from that talk.
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Dzongsar Khyenste Rinpoche is on a boat performing a fire puja in the nighttime, lights reflect off the water in the distance.
  • Practitioner Support
  • Words of Wisdom Series
No.11

Rinpoche on Giving, Receiving, and Sustainability

September 20, 2022
By maryann
A letter from our founder, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche to our supporters, volunteers, grant recipients and the general KF community at these uncertain times.
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Academia
Supporting Buddhist scholarship at academic institutions around the world. Read more about our academic impact.
  • Academia

A Sojourn in Pune as Khyentse Foundation Visiting Professor

February 21, 2025
By maryann
Prof. Mattia Salvini Dharmavardhana Jñānagarbha of the International Buddhist College, Thailand, held the visiting professorship in April and May 2024.
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  • Academia

Eng Jin Ooi Appointed Palyul-Khyentse Chair in Buddhist Textual Studies at the International Buddhist College, Thailand

January 23, 2025
By maryann
KF established the chair—the first the foundation has supported in Asia—in 2022 with a generous matching fund from the Buddhist foundation Yayasan Pema Norbu Vihara.
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Education for Children
Bringing Buddhist education to the youngest generation. Read more about our supported education projects.
  • Education for Children
  • Bodhi Seeds Series
No.5

Experiencing Joy and Wonder in the Present Moment

August 26, 2024
By maryann
Dzongsar Kanishka School is modifying its courses to become a model of children’s education in India.
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  • Education for Children
  • Bodhi Seeds Series
No.4

Bringing the Buddha’s Wisdom to Families

April 27, 2024
By maryann
A key to introducing the dharma to parents who are new to a Buddhist school such as Middle Way School is to present Buddhist values and practices in an accessible manner.
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Translation
Offering Buddha's wisdom in many languages. Read more about our impact on translation projects.
  • Translation

Translating Jigme Lingpa’s Treasury of Precious Qualities into Mongolian

September 25, 2024
By maryann
In 2022, Munkhzul Koski received a KF Ashoka grant to translate the first section of the Treasury of Precious Qualities by the renowned Nyingma master Jigme Lingpa, together with its commentary by Kangyur Rinpoche, into modern Mongolian.
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  • Translation

Translating for Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche

June 4, 2024
By maryann
With Khyentse Foundation sponsorship, Gyurmé Avertin translates orally for the revered Nyingma lama Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche and is striving to making Rinpoche’s teachings available in English.
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Never Stop Asking

May 30, 2009
By bain
Lynn Hoberg shares what it's like to volunteer behind the scenes of a historic event when emotions are running high and so much is at stake.
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Words from Rinpoche
  • Practitioner Support

A Fresh Approach

January 3, 2025
By maryann
On December 15, 2024, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche addressed Khyentse Foundation’s Board of Directors emphasizing the need to ensure that the foundation is protected for the future.
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Tributes
Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche is smiling while seated on a throne and around Suresh Jindal.

    A Tribute to Suresh Jindal (1942–2022) by Rinpoche

    December 2, 2022
    By Alicja Żmigrodzka
    There is so much about our friend Suresh that we will long remember and rejoice in.
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    Letter From An Anonymous Donor

    December 3, 2009
    By bain
    An anonymous donor makes a substantial donation to Khyentse Foundation earmarked for the Buddhist Literary Heritage Project and sends an encouraging letter to the board of directors.
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