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2027 Low-Residency Transformation: A New Chapter for Graduate Study
Beginning in Fall 2027, Maitripa College will inaugurate a new chapter in its graduate programs with the launch of new low-residency models for both the Master of Arts in Applied Buddhism and the Master of Divinity. This transition represents not a departure from Maitripa's distinctive educational identity, but a deepening of it — an [...]
Maitripa Rabjungma Community
The Maitripa Rabjungma Community is a lineage-rooted formation pathway for women pursuing Buddhist ordination and long-term spiritual leadership, integrating rigorous study, Vinaya training, contemplative practice, retreat, and communal life within the living Nalanda tradition. As the Community completes its inaugural year, this pioneering program continues to demonstrate what it means to cultivate ethical, scholarly, [...]
Maitripa College at the Forefront of Higher Education
At a moment when higher education is reckoning with deep questions of purpose, pedagogy, and institutional culture, Maitripa College finds itself not catching up — but already there. The insights brought home from the DEAC Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. this April (2026) confirm what has long been true of Maitripa: our commitment to [...]
Action Research Project (Capstone)
The Action Research Project is where the MA in Applied Buddhism comes to life. This capstone integrates students’ development as scholar–meditator–practitioners through a values-based, action-oriented research process. Grounded in action research methodology and contemplative inquiry, students design a practitioner-led project to improve practice within a specific community, institutional, ministerial, or social context. Through cycles [...]
Minimum Technology Requirements
The Maitripa College hybrid low-residency model offers students both onsite and online course delivery formats, creating the conditions for an educational journey grounded in spiritual and community formation. A computer (ideally a laptop) is required for all degree, continuing education, and auditing students. This document describes the minimum technology requirements students must [...]
Spiritual Formation Lab
What We Mean by “Spiritual Formation” At Maitripa College, spiritual formation is an intentional, lineage-rooted, and assessable process that integrates academic study, contemplative practice, ethical development, and, where appropriate, professional identity. Formation is not an abstract ideal or private devotional experience. It is a structured and supported developmental process through which students gradually integrate [...]
Low-Residency Transformation at Maitripa College
A Mission-Rooted, Student-Centered Evolution of Graduate Education Forming Scholar-Practitioners for Our Time Maitripa College’s MA in Applied Buddhism (MAAB) degree program is a rigorous course of study grounded in traditional Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and practice directly from Tibetan lineage holders. The MAAB is a 44-credit graduate degree under the direction of Yangsi Rinpoche, [...]
Dr. Willis on Scholar-Practitioners
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Dr. Michael Ium (1984-2025)
The Maitripa College community mourns the sudden loss of a brilliant and most kind alum, Dr. Michael Ium (MA 2014). We delighted in his passion for Buddhist Studies and community while he was a student here, and have been so proud of his subsequent achievements and promising career. Michael will be missed by his [...]
Lapis Spring 2025
Please enjoy our Spring 2025 issue of Lapis The Learning Story, A Digital Journal. This issue features articles by Maitripa scholars on the topic of "Translating Classical Tibetan at Maitripa College." Click on "read now" and use the quick menu across the bottom of your screen for viewing options. [...]
Thank You for Joining the Maitripa Membership Mandala!
Thank you for joining the Maitripa Membership Mandala! You will be hearing more from us very soon!
Maitripa Mandala Membership
ANNOUNCING! Under the direction and vision of Yangsi Rinpoche, the mandala of Maitripa College is growing! We are excited to bring you the opportunity of Maitripa Mandala Membership in order to connect you more closely to our vision, and to increase support for sustaining and expanding our many projects and the benefits they bring to [...]




