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Keeping Tibetan culture alive in everyday community life.

2012–present
Community & Cultural Programs

Overview

Direct programming with the diaspora community — teaching elders to read, bringing master teachers and musicians to New York, and creating moments where the culture is lived, not just preserved.

What’s Inside

1

500 Tibetan literacy workbooks for elderly refugees who never attended school

2

Organized Kyabje Ling Rinpoche's first teaching in New York City (2016)

3

Facilitated Tibetan elders' Carnegie Hall performance with Grammy-nominated Tenzin Choegyal (2017)

4

Concerts by Techung and Nangma maestro Chukie Tethong; community Sho competitions

Tibetan elders performing at Carnegie Hall with Grammy-nominated singer Tenzin Choegyal (2017)

Tibetan elders performing at Carnegie Hall with Grammy-nominated singer Tenzin Choegyal (2017)

Kyabje Ling Rinpoche's first teaching in New York City, organized by Terma Heritage Foundation (2016)

Kyabje Ling Rinpoche's first teaching in New York City, organized by Terma Heritage Foundation (2016)

Techung performing Tibetan folk and traditional music

Techung performing Tibetan folk and traditional music

Nangma maestro Chukie Tethong performing classical Tibetan music

Nangma maestro Chukie Tethong performing classical Tibetan music

Traditional Tibetan Sho (dice game) competition in New York City

Traditional Tibetan Sho (dice game) competition in New York City

Tibetan literacy workbooks produced for elderly refugees

Tibetan literacy workbooks produced for elderly refugees

Building on a decade of our founder's work, supported by the Rubin Foundation, the Tsadra Foundation, and The Tibet Fund.

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Sustain Living Culture

Performing Arts Support

Sustaining Tibetan performing arts in exile.

Nurture the Next Generation

Terma Studio

Giving Tibetan children songs in their mother tongue they actually want to sing.