Dear Friend, Last week while watching the elaborate, historic, and really perfectly coordinated coronation of King Charles III, I found myself deeply moved. So much has already been said about the lavishness and even the anachronistic nature of having a monarch today,...

SINI’s students have shown great dedication in their studies, and their efforts are bearing fruit globally. Through Zoom, SINI 's monastics have held seminar discussions with students at Harvard Divinity School and Brandeis University. The conversations covered a wide...

Four educators* with ties to The American Embassy School in New Delhi joined forces with Eden Merritt, SINI’s director of EDP and the author of the program’s textbook, for a powerful hybrid online/in-person two-month program for SINI students. Preliminary online...

SINI is thrilled to announce that students are gathering in Manali for an intensive summer English language and philosophy session. In addition to our director Eden Merritt and our core EDP teacher Osha Johnson, we welcome two visiting instructors to join us for the...

The fourth cohort's leadership program of the Library for Tibetan Works and Archives took place for 15 days at SINI. The participants took classes in Tibetan writing, science writing, and neuroscience. Additionally, there was designated time for "project time," during...

Through the magic of the internet, we heard from Lopon Tsering Nyima, the Assistant Director of the Kagyur Karchag Project, who updated us on the team’s progress so far. More than 50 researchers from all Tibetan Buddhist schools work on this vast project, which will...

SINI’s newest initiative, the Applied Studies Program, empowers monastics to create or direct their own project in areas of interest to them. Select students are invited to submit a project proposal in order to receive mentorship, collaboration, and modest seed...

Franziska Oertle (Switzerland), Juan Garcia (Columbia), Anastasia Stoliarova (Russia) Lhakpa Tsering (India) and many native-speaking Tibetan tutors are working together across time zones and countries to offer the wonderful Colloquial Tibetan program. Since starting...

We are excited to have completed the first year of our EDP Program using SINI’s own EDP curriculum and textbook. SINI’s Associate Director of the English for Dharma Purposes Program and textbook series author, Eden Merritt, completed the EDP Year One Textbook earlier...