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Apprenticeship Program
Pairing masters with young students, so the knowledge that cannot be digitized still passes hand to hand.
Overview
Some knowledge cannot be digitized — it passes only from person to person. Our apprenticeship program will pair masters with young students: a musician teaching the dranyen, a master calligrapher forming a student's hand, a thangka painter transmitting the sacred proportions. Not an app — a lineage, carried into the next generation the way it has always been carried.
What’s Inside
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The first new initiative the Foundation will launch when funding arrives — it is not yet running
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Dranyen: a musician teaching the Tibetan lute to a young student
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Calligraphy: a master calligrapher forming a student's hand
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Thangka: a painter transmitting the sacred proportions
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The masters are willing, the students are waiting, and the design is ready — what has held it back is only that everything so far has been built without funding
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What a master teaches an apprentice lives on in that student, and in her students, regardless of what happens to any institution
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The model is already proven next door: the Gangjong Doeghar performing arts group we support in Kalimpong has trained 235+ young artists in the traditions