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KF Supports Teaching of Tibetan Buddhist Studies and Language at the University of British Columbia
Khyentse Foundation, with support from the Siddhartha’s Intent Society of Canada, recently made a donation to the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. This donation will fund the hiring of a post-doctoral research fellow or a visiting...
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Drubgyud Tenzin Rinpoche Joins KF Board of Directors
Drubgyud Tenzin Rinpoche is the abbot of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche's unique and progressive monastery, Chökyi Gyatso Institute (CGI), in eastern Bhutan. The more than 150 monks living at CGI receive a rigorous shedra education and also learn numerous rituals, perform...
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Wenli Fan Receives Award for Outstanding PhD Dissertation in Buddhist Studies
Khyentse Foundation is pleased to announce the winner of Outstanding PhD Dissertations in Buddhist Studies for Asia. Wenli Fan of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, was unanimously selected by the KF Dissertation Award Committee for her dissertation, Action and Its...
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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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Remarks from Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche on University of Michigan Chair
Photo by Lars Jensen. In November 2016, Rinpoche made a rare visit to North America to visit Ann Arbor, Michigan, as part of the Khyentse Visitorship. The Visitor Program was set up by a group of Rinpoche's students, to bring the best of the Oral Tradition teachers...
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Rinpoche’s First Visit to Israel
Photo courtesy of Alexander Dogaev. In mid-June 2018, Rinpoche visited Israel for the first time for a series of dharma teachings with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During his visit, Rinpoche and KF executive director, Cangioli Che, made plans with Dr. Eviatar...
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- 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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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...
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FOCUS: March 2018
In the March Focus, we share upcoming grant deadlines, the first-ever online access to the 2018 KF Lecture on Buddhism and Divination, as well as reflections and aspirations from Amelia Chow, one of the founders of both KF and Siddhartha's Intent. Read more...
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.
