Daily necessities
Food, shelter, and healthcare give practitioners the stability required for long-term education.
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Tibetan Buddhist monastic education
Serious scholarship depends on ordinary necessities: food, housing, books, healthcare, and uninterrupted time for study and practice.
Study that serves generations
Monastic education preserves philosophical, ethical, and contemplative traditions through disciplined study, debate, reflection, and practice. Monks and nuns often rely on sponsorship for the basic conditions that make this long education possible.
The Maitri Project supports vetted institutions across Asia teaching ethics, wisdom, concentration, and the living philosophical traditions of Buddhism. Funding may meet needs such as food, housing, healthcare, and education so practitioners can stay focused on the work their communities have entrusted to them.
Scholarly training
Support helps sustain environments dedicated to philosophy, ethics, debate, wisdom, and concentration.
Living continuity
Education enables hard-won knowledge to remain practiced, examined, and available to future generations.
Sustain a scholar
Your gift supports the practical foundations of monastic education.