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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. [...]

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 [...]

Low-Residency Transformation at Maitripa College

A Mission-Rooted, Student-Centered Evolution of Graduate Education   Forming Scholar-Practitioners for Our Time Maitripa College’s Master of Arts degree program is a rigorous course of study grounded in traditional Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and practice directly from Tibetan lineage holders. The MA in Buddhist Studies is a 44-credit graduate degree under the direction of Yangsi [...]

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.   [...]

His Holiness Long Life ~ Mani Mantra Recitation Initiative

Dear Friends, You are warmly invited to join the FPMT community in this very special His Holiness Long Life ~ Mani Mantra Recitation Initiative, where students are invited to recite the Om Mani Padme Hum mantra. The total of all the recitations will be offered to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama on the 6th of July for his 90th birthday.  The motivation of this [...]

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 [...]

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe was born in 1930 in Lho-Kha, Central Tibet and became a monk at the age of 13.  He is a genuine contemplative master and a member of the last generation extensively trained in old Tibet. He received his monastic education at Drepung Loseling Monastery and, in 1969, was awarded the Geshe [...]