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The Maitri Project supports the people who keep wisdom and insight alive.

Who we support

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    Female Geshe's

    In 2016 history was made and the first female Geshe’s were awarded. Donate today and support Geshe-ma’s and Geshe-ma’s in training. Trailblazing women advancing the teachings of interdependence. .

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    Sera Mey's Gyalrong House

    Gyalrong’s new dormitory will hold 65 rooms and support over 100 monks. Build a legacy through supporting some of the best educated, trained, and practiced monks in the world.

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    The Ananadhakhuti School

    The Ananadhakhuti School in Nepal plays a critical role in providing education to children from underprivileged backgrounds, helping bridge the educational divide in rural areas. The school offers a comprehensive curriculum that includes academic subjects alongside vital life skills, including teachings on well being, mind science and meditation, fostering a holistic development environment for students.

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    Healthcare

    Nunneries and monasteries often cannot afford to send their monastics for proper health examinations, checkups and medicine.

    We fund the health care costs to cover individual nuns, monks, monasteries and nunneries so they can receive the support they need.

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    Education

    Monks and Nuns require sponsorship and donations to survive. We support vetted institutions across Asia that rely on donations to support the education on ethics, wisdom, and concentration.

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    Meditation Retreat

    Monasteries and Individual monks and nuns often don’t have the resources to support themselves in meditation retreat.

    Deep meditation retreat is where the contemplative life comes to fruition through living embodied experience. Supporting meditation retreat is powerful cause of peace to put into the world.

    It is a thousands year old tradition to support monks and nuns in deep retreat and it’s said to benefit the community.

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Female Geshes and Nuns

The Maitri Project supports nuns by funding the essentials that allow practice and study to continue where resources are scarce. At nunneries across Asia and especially India, this support includes housing, healthcare, food security, and educational needs. Beyond institutional nunneries, we are in direct contact with monastics and practitioners around the world who reach out to us for support, especially Western monastics who do not have the protection or financial backing of an established institution. In these cases, even modest funding can determine whether someone is able to continue monastic life.

The Maitri Project is also committed to supporting the next generation of female geshes, women pursuing the highest level of scholarly and contemplative training in Tibetan Buddhism. The Geshema path requires decades of disciplined study, yet funding at this level remains extremely limited. By supporting housing, healthcare, study costs, and exam-related needs, we help remove the practical barriers that prevent these women from completing their training. You are welcome to donate to us as we reach across a spectrum of nuns and female Geshes, or go directly to The Tibetan Nuns Project and donate there. The Maitri Project’s donations strengthen the emergence of female teachers and scholars, ensuring that living lineages of wisdom, compassion, and ethical clarity continue to grow and serve the world.

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Sera Monastery

Founded in 1419, Sera Monastery is one of the three great monastic universities of the Gelugpa tradition within Vajrayana Buddhism. Now based in Karnataka, it remains a vital center for the study of ethics, logic, compassion, and Buddhist mind science. Home to more than 5,000 monks, Sera offers a course of study comparable in rigor to an Ivy League education, shaped by profound discipline and refined conduct. Within Sera, Gyalrong College has received a significant influx of new monks, pushing housing far beyond capacity. To sustain their development of the heart and their rigorous study of consciousness, a new dormitory is urgently needed.

Gyalrong College has produced some of the most influential teachers of the modern era, including Pabongka Rinpoche and Khen Rinpoche Geshe Lobsang Tharchin, whose teachings helped bring Buddhist wisdom to the West. Today, Gyalrong stands as a living beacon of peace, meditation, loving kindness, and insight for practitioners around the world. Through the efforts of The Maitri Project, six apartments for the new Gyalrong House have already been completed, a meaningful milestone made possible by collective generosity. More apartments remain to be built. A donation at this moment directly supports the continuity of these ancient lineages and the daily lives of the monks who uphold them, ensuring that this living tradition of wisdom and compassion continues to benefit the world.

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Ananadhakhuti School

The Ananadhakhuti School in Nepal plays a critical role in providing education to children from underprivileged backgrounds, helping bridge the educational divide in rural areas. The school offers a comprehensive curriculum that includes academic subjects alongside vital life skills, including teachings on well being, mind science and meditation, fostering a holistic development environment for students. As a beacon of hope in the community, Ananadhakhuti School emphasizes nurturing each student's intellectual, social, and emotional growth, equipping them to become thoughtful and productive members of society.

Currently, Ananadhakhuti School urgently needs funding to continue its mission and enhance its educational offerings. Donations will directly support the costs of children’s education, essential learning materials, and the integration of educational technology. By investing in these resources, donors empower the school to provide a more dynamic and effective learning experience, paving the way for sustainable community development and a brighter future for the students. Your support is crucial in helping Anadhakhuti School make a lasting impact in the lives of Nepal's youth and the wider community.

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Our Impact and Milestones

What collective generosity has made possible.

1. Global Monastic Support

Since its founding, The Maitri Project has supported thousands of monks and nuns across Asia and the global Tibetan Buddhist community. Our work responds directly to real needs identified by monastics themselves, from basic living support to long term educational and retreat needs. By staying in direct relationship with practitioners and institutions, we ensure that support reaches the places where it is most urgently needed and most impactful.

2. Education and Scholarly Achievement - Advancing Education and Study

Education is one of the most powerful forms of preservation. The Maitri Project has supported the successful completion of three doctoral level degrees, strengthening the future of Buddhist scholarship, teaching, and contemplative science. These achievements represent years of disciplined study and ensure that living lineages of wisdom and ethical clarity continue to be transmitted to future generations.

Alongside advanced scholarship, we have also supported the full year of education for nearly a dozen children at the Anandakuthi School. Covering essential costs such as tuition, supplies, and basic needs. By investing in both monastic education and the education of children, The Maitri Project supports a continuum of learning that nurtures wisdom, stability, and opportunity across generations.

3. Healthcare and Life Saving Aid -Providing Essential Medical Support

In the Kathmandu Valley, The Maitri Project has provided life saving diabetic medication to monks and nuns who would otherwise have gone without treatment. In regions where access to consistent healthcare is limited, this support directly preserves life, stability, and the ability to continue practice and service.

4. Infrastructure and Housing - Building for Stability and Dignity

Stable housing is foundational to sustained practice and study. At Sera Mey Monastery, The Maitri Project has funded the construction of six residential apartments, creating safe and dignified living conditions for monks engaged in advanced study. These buildings represent long term investment in the continuity of monastic education.

5. Retreats and Youth Education - Supporting Practice in Living Communities

The Maitri Project has supported meditation retreats in rural villages where monks and nuns guided hundreds of children in Vipassana practice. These retreats bring ethics, attention, and compassion directly into communities, offering young people tools for clarity, emotional regulation, and inner stability at a formative age.

6. Food Security and Daily Sustenanc - Meeting Immediate Need

At the World Peace Temple, The Maitri Project provided food resources sufficient to feed one hundred monks for an entire month. This support allowed practitioners to remain focused on prayer, study, and service without the strain of food insecurity.

7. Supporting Advanced Retreat and Leadership. Supporting Senior Teachers

The Maitri Project has also supported high lamas in India during extended meditation retreats, ensuring that senior teachers are able to complete deep contemplative practice without interruption. These retreats are essential for the vitality and depth of the teachings that later reach thousands of students worldwide.

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