Programs & Initiatives
We work at every stage of cultural survival — rescuing what is disappearing, building the tools communities need, raising a generation that grows up in the language, and sustaining the living culture around it.
Terma Heritage Foundation continues and expands more than a decade of Tibetan cultural-preservation work led by its founder, Thupten Chakrishar — much of it carried out independently and supported by the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, the Tsadra Foundation, and The Tibet Fund. That work now continues under the Foundation.
1.06M+
children reached through music & media
1,067+
Tibetan texts digitized and freely accessible
371 hrs
sacred teachings restored from analog originals
557
Buddhist deities documented in a structured knowledge graph
500
literacy workbooks for elders who never attended school
239K+
dictionary entries built into our offline word processor
Pillar 1
Rescue & Digitize
Recovering recordings, manuscripts, and oral histories before the elders who hold them pass and the originals decay.
Pillar 2
Build Infrastructure
Creating the tools communities need to read, write, and study in their own script — because the Tibetan internet does not yet work the way it should.
Pillar 3
Nurture the Next Generation
Making Tibetan joyful for children, so the language survives in the mouths of the young — not only in archives.
Pillar 4
Sustain Living Culture
Keeping Tibetan culture vibrant as a living tradition — through elders, artists, and the gatherings that hold a community together.
Partner With Us
Every program here exists because someone chose to act. If you see work that matters to you — as a funder, a collaborator, or a community leader — we would love to hear from you.