The Maitri Project

Maitri Journal

Context for the people, education, and cultural traditions at the heart of Maitri’s work.

Why Monastic Education Matters: Keeping a Living Tradition Alive

Explore how ethics, study, debate and shared community sustain Buddhist education, and why these living traditions can matter beyond monastery walls.

Edward Sczudlo’s summer 2026 tour brought monks and the Medicine Buddha mandala to communities across Indonesia.

The 2016 graduation milestone, the work behind it, and an introduction to Rise of the Geshe-Ma.

An introduction to Asian Legacy Library, with direct links to explore and support its preservation work.

Practical support for nuns in Nepal, including Maitri’s medication assistance in the Kathmandu Valley.

How Maitri has helped provide diabetes medication for monastics in Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley.

Twelve completed apartments at Sera Mey’s Gyalrong House support the conditions for long-term monastic education.

Maitri’s support has funded approximately twelve full school years at Anandakuthi School in Nepal.

Maitri supported food for 100 monks for a full month at the World Peace Temple.

Maitri’s achievements include support for three doctoral-level degrees in monastic scholarship.