Summary of Activities for 2005

Key Initiatives for 2006

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Krishna Das Benefit Concert - New York, January 28, 2006

It’s been a great year for the Foundation… Perhaps the single thing that has been most inspiring has been the way the grass roots Study Circle initiative has taken off. We’re now up to 27 Circles in 7 countries, with Study Guides in Japanese and Chinese. And one group is starting on their second cycle, tackling a new book and creating new a Study Guide to share. A huge Thank You! to Study Circle Coordinator Emmanuel Ande Ivorgba, who has given such a boost of energy and goodwill to this initiative, and to all of the Study Circle pioneers!

This year also saw the birth of The Missing Peace art project and the development of the first course of what will become our online university for ethics and peace. For highlights of our activities for 2005, check out the summary below, or the full description online.

The Dalai Lama Foundation exists only through the kindness and generosity of our circle of friends. Thank You! from all of us to our many friends who have contributed their gifts of professional expertise and financial support throughout the year.

We welcome and deeply appreciate your financial support for our ongoing activities to promote ethics and peace. We are set up to receive secure online donations, or you can donate by check.

We’ve identified three Key Initiatives for 2006. By supporting these activities you can participate in our work as we help to make the vision of a global movement for ethics and peace education a reality.

We look forward to your partnership as we work together in service of the worldwide movement to make education for ethics and peace part of the mainstream education of every child, youth, and citizen.

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Here are some of our major accomplishments this year:

• Study Circles.  There are now 27 Study Circles in 7 countries.  Volunteers are working on translations of the study guide—Japanese and Chinese are complete and Portuguese and Spanish are underway. 

• The Missing Peace – The Dalai Lama Portrait Project.  With the Committee of 100 for Tibet, the Foundation is creating a major multi-media art exhibition bringing together over 75 artists from more than 25 countries.  The art is now coming in to the San Francisco facility and being readied for the opening at the Fowler Museum in Los Angeles in June 2006. 

• Online Courses.  In 2005 we began development of online courses.  The first two courses, Practical Ethics and Destructive Emotions, will provide the foundation for a broad range of courses for continuing education in ethics, peace and altruism.

• Humanitarian Initiatives.  Projects include the Sera Mey Redevelopment Project and the Tibetan-Himalayan Health Project to improve the health of communities in India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet.

• The Dalai Lama at Stanford.  In November, His Holiness came to Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, for a dialog with neuroscientists, a dialog on nonviolence, and a public talk on meditation.  Foundation President Tenzin Tethong played a key role facilitating and planning the visit from its inception.

• Grants. While the Dalai Lama Foundation is not primarily a grant-making organization, we do make a small number of modest grants each year.  In 2005 we made grants to the Summer Institute on Nonviolence and Social Change at Cal State Polytechnic University, Pomona and the Ethics in Russia Project, among other programs.

A full description of the Foundation’s 2005 activities is available online.

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Below are the key initiatives we are undertaking in the next 12 months. 

The Missing Peace Curriculum.  In conjunction with The Missing Peace art exhibition, we are developing Middle School and High School curricula using art as a doorway to a dialog on peace.  The curricula will be developed in accordance with relevant standards to facilitate adoption across the U.S., and made available for use by teachers at no cost. 

Online School for Peace.  In 2006 we will begin offering our first two courses, Practical Ethics and Destructive Emotions. These are the foundational courses of what will become an online university offering a wide range of values-oriented courses, freely available to all.  Examples of courses in our roadmap include Cultivating Compassion, The Message of Martin Luther King Jr.,Integral Peacemaking, a Transformative Approach to Peace & Sustainability, Nonviolent Communication, and A Force More Powerful—The Nonviolent Path to Social Change.   

Study Circles.  Ethics for the New Millennium is the Dalai Lama’s presentation of the approach he feels is most effective in enabling us to live well together in today’s diverse, interconnected world. In the past year this grassroots initiative has grown to 27 Study Circles in 7 countries.  Our goal for this year – 50 circles, Ethics Study Guide in 7 languages, plus two new Study Guides.  Help us spread the seeds of peace, one group of friends at a time.

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If you have recently moved, please assist us by updating your postal address at the Dalai Lama Foundation website, or send an email to info@dlfound.org with your name and new address.

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For those of you who will be in New York in late January, please join us as we welcome chant master Krishna Das in an evening of Kirtan with special guests Baird Hersey & Prana to benefit the programs of The Dalai Lama Foundation. The benefit will support the development of our shared global capacity for ethics and peace and our expanding education programs for 2006.

Krishna Das Benefit Concert
Saturday January 28th, 2006
New York, NY

At The New York Society for Ethical Culture
2 West 64th St (at Central Park West)
Doors open at 7 p.m., Chanting and Music at 8 p.m.

Tickets: $30 advance / $35 at the door
On sale at:
Jivamukti Yoga Center
404 Lafayette Street, 3rd floor
(Between Astor Pl. & E. 4th St.)
Tel: (212) 353-0214
www.jivamuktiyoga.com
Tickets may be purchased online, by phone, or in person. All major credit cards accepted.

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