RYI STUDENT BLOG

The Rangjung Yeshe Institute is pleased to announce that the Khyentse Foundation has agreed to double the amount given to our Khyentse Foundation-Rangjung Yeshe Institute financial aid fund. Specifically in order to allow us to offer more scholarships to monks and nuns.  Students must be enrolled in the Bachelor's or Master's program and be full time students to be eligible for the scholarships.  More information about RYI financial aid can be found HERE .   Already we have several new ordained applicants!   Thank you, Khyentse Foundation.

“Where are you from?”  How many times this question has been heard and will be asked again and again, by total strangers or new friends. How many times has it taken long seconds to answer.  And how many times the reply was not satisfactory. Sincerely, I don’t know where I am from. This question has always caused me a dilemma because it creates a fixed image and idea in people’s minds that do not reflect at all where I am from, and even less who I am. It is like lying. Born here, grew up there, parents from such and such place; studied there and over there; the mind wandering in this place and the heart in that one. This “I” has been travelling a lot, pretending to discover the world, while it has actually been looking for its own world. Looking for a place “I” could finally call ‘home’, where “I” could feel safe enough to stay. Looking for a place… somewhere outside of me. Here at the Shedra, I have found something very precious while studying Buddhism:...

Congratulations go out to Zachary Beer, from the USA, who on October 7 defended his Master of Art thesis in front of a committee consisting of Dr. Andreas Doctor Ph.D. (University of Calgary) and Dr. David Fiordalis Ph.D. ( University of Michigan ). Zack's thesis title was:  'The Science of the Development Stage: A Study and Translation of Shechen Gyaltsab’s General Outline of the Development Stage' .   Many congratulations, Zack!