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November FOCUS: KF-India’s Reviving Activities
This month's Focus features the work of KF-India. KF is making special efforts to revive the Buddhist heritage in India, the source of the great river of Buddhism—the place where Shakyamuni Buddha was born, achieved enlightenment, and taught for 45 years before...
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Message from Rinpoche: Bodhgaya 2018
To all concerned, As you know, we are about to spend some precious time in Bodhgaya. I trust all those coming will make the most of this opportunity in our most sacred site. This is just a short notice to remind you that some people may claim to be raising funds for...
read moreA Billboard at the Kathmandu Airport
It is traditional to organize life release practices for the longevity of the Guru. So, on the eve of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche’s birthday this year, he requested some Asian sangha members to allocate half the proceeds of a life release to a billboard in the...
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November in Bodhgaya, India: Events and Information
Mark your calendar! We are delighted to share with you the many events that are taking place in Bodhgaya, India next month, as Buddhists from around the world gather at this holy site to remember Buddha and his precious teachings. Nov 6-15 - Dzongsar Monlam Organized...
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August FOCUS: Translating the Tibetan Canon into Chinese
Read the August Focus here.
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Pioneering a Hundred-Year Mission
Photo: Tibetan Canon Pecha Printed by Wooden Carving Block by Yuan Ren To read the Buddha’s words in one’s own language is the wish of most every Buddhist practitioner. Therefore, it is said that translating sutras and shastras generates a great deal of merit. In...
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- October 1, 2018: Nomination Window for KF Award, Europe, open October 1, 2018
- June 27, 2018: New Chair in Tibetan Buddhist Studies Established at University of Michigan
- May 16, 2018: Bala Book Award Announcement
- April 30, 2018: KF Prize for Outstanding Buddhist Translation Awarded
- September 15, 2017: Nomination Window For KF Dissertation Award Opens October 1, 2017
- June 30, 2015: Dr. Jens Wilhelm Borgland and Dr. David Higgins receive award for outstanding PhD dissertations in Buddhist Studies, 2014-15
- June 30, 2015: Nomination Window for KF award for outstanding dissertations in Buddhist Studies Asia opens October 1, 2015
- February 14, 2014: Khyentse Foundation Delivers Unprecedented 6-Day Leadership Training Program to Young Buddhists Leaders
- June 10, 2013: Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi Awarded 2013 Khyentse Foundation Prize for Outstanding Translation
KF Annual Reports
2017 Annual Report
KF ANNUAL REPORT | CELEBRATING PURPOSE AND GROWTH In a World of Change, KF's Fundamental Purpose Remains the Same Long before there was a Khyentse Foundation, Rinpoche had a vision. The foundation exists to help him realize it. As he said in his address to the KF...
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2016 Annual Report
CELEBRATING 15 YEARS OF DHARMA ACTIVITY 2001-2016 in Words and Images It’s been 15 years since a small group of students—determined to help relieve Rinpoche of his financial responsibilities for the support of his monasteries in China, India, and Bhutan—helped start...
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2015 Annual Report
The 2015 annual report is streamlined, with fewer pages, highlighting a few individuals and projects.
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August FOCUS: Translating the Tibetan Canon into Chinese
Read the August Focus here.
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June Focus
KF is happy to announce a new Khyentse chair at the University of Michigan: the Khyentse Gendun Chopel Professorship. This is the largest gift dedicated to the study of Tibetan Buddhism in North America. “As citizens of a world that is ever shifting, changing and even...
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FOCUS: April 2018
April Focus | Prize for 2018 Outstanding Translation Awarded KF Prize for Outstanding Translation is an award for excellence in translation from the main classical languages of Buddhism into English from any Buddhist tradition. This year the award goes to Dr. Andy...
read moreGreat Patron Series
In 2002, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche began identifying some of the great patrons of Buddhism, from Shakyamuni’s own patron, Sudatta Anathapindika to the warlord king Ashoka. Without these patrons, Buddhism would have had little chance to flourish. In every Khyentse Foundation Communique, Rinpoche shares the life story of one of these inspiring patrons.
