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KF FOCUS: Khyentse Vision Project
FOCUS March 2021 Khyentse Vision Project: Translating the Works of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo into EnglishOn the auspicious anniversary of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, the first Khyentse, we are pleased to launch the website for the Khyentse Vision Project, an...
Rinpoche on Reaching Beyond: Words of Wisdom Series 2
Photo above: Rinpoche in Taiwan, Jan 2021. Photo credit: Pawo Choyning Dorji Words of Wisdom 2 February 2021 Rinpoche on Reaching Beyond Many of us found solace in the numerous opportunities to see Rinpoche online in 2020; teachings, pujas, online gatherings, and...
Happy Losar | 2021 SI and KF Auspicious Dates Calendar
TADYATHA OM MUNE MUNE MAHA-MUNE SHAKYA MUNEYE SVAHA Happy New Year Happy Losar Happy Everything Watch Rinpoche's Losar Message. 2021 SI and KF Auspicious Dates Calendar HAPPY YEAR OF THE OX from all of us at Siddhartha's Intent and Khyentse Foundation May...
Green Tara Puja Teaching, Taipei, October, 20, 2020 |綠度母修法開示,台北,2020年10月
In October, 2020, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche did a Zabtik Drolma (Green Tara) Puja in Taipei and gave a teaching on it. The transcripts for that teaching are available here. Zabtik Drolma is open to everyone and no prerequisites are required. Rinpoche has said that...
FOCUS: Walking the Bodhisattva Path
FOCUS January 2021 Walking the Bodhisattva Path The Guan Yin statue at Than Hsiang Temple Welcome to 2021! Khyentse Foundation wishes all of you a very happy new year. We would like to start the year with some joyful news by announcing the sixth Khyentse...
Rinpoche’s 2021 New Year Message
Dear supporters, volunteers, and well-wishers, The year 2020 will remain in our minds as one of the most turbulent we have ever experienced. As the year slowly fades, let us hope that the vast majority of calamitous events—and the armies of negative forces the year...
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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
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...
Annual Report 2018
The widening scope and growing complexity of KF activities over the years make it increasingly challenging to cover all of our projects in meaningful detail in our annual report. Starting this year, the annual report will concentrate on one of KF’s eight focus areas...
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...
KF FOCUS: Khyentse Vision Project
FOCUS March 2021 Khyentse Vision Project: Translating the Works of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo into EnglishOn the auspicious anniversary of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, the first Khyentse, we are pleased to launch the website for the Khyentse Vision Project, an...
FOCUS: Planning for Impermanence
FOCUS December 2020 Planning for ImpermanenceAs we near the end of 2020, and begin planning for 2021, we want to thank our donors, supporters, and volunteers near and far for another year of carrying out Rinpoche’s ever-growing activities in preserving and...
FOCUS: Himalayan Scholars in the West
FOCUS November 2020 Buddhist Teacher Training Himalayan Scholars in the West My vision is if we can produce the facilities and the teachers, in the next 100 years, we will have Buddhism intact.In order to produce authentic Buddhist teachers for the 21st century...
Great 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.












