• Study Circles. Since we first made our study guide for Ethics for the New Millennium available online in mid-2004 and invited people to form Study Circles, this initiative has taken off in true grassroots fashion. In 2005 our Study Circle Coordinator, Emmanuel Ande Ivorgba, of Jos, Nigeria, has taken this program to a new level. There are now 27 Study Circles, in 7 countries. Volunteers are working on translations of the study guide - Japanese is complete, and Chinese, Portuguese, and Spanish are underway. One study circle, in Saratoga, California, is starting on a new cycle, taking up the book How to Expand Love, by The Dalai Lama and Jeffrey Hopkins, and preparing a study guide to share with the DLF community. Also in the works are "sister circles," with teachers at the Tibetan Children's Village (TCV) in Dharamsala, India, and teachers in Jos, Nigeria.
• 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 openeing at the Fowler Museum in Los Angeles in June 2006. It will continue to the LUMA in Chicago, then to New York, then on to Europe and Asia. In October project director Darlene Markovich and the TMP team traveled to Dharamsala and gave The Dalai Lama an overview of the art and status of the project. His Holiness was very positive, and encouraged us to take the project to the Middle East, Russia, and Hong Kong. In conjunction with the exhibition, we are developing middle school and high school curricula using art as a doorway to a dialog on peace.
• Online Courses. In 2005 we began development of online courses in collaboration with Ashoka University. 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.
• Tibetan-Himalayan Health Care. After providing fundraising and support services for almost two years, we took the Sera Mey Redevelopment Project in-house in 2005. The H. Pointner Medical Centre, located at Sera Mey Monastery in Bylakuppe, India, provides health care for the monks of Sera Mey and Sera Je monasteries and for the local Tibetan community. In 2005, in collaboration with Dr. Joseph Lux, an infectious disease physician and psychiatrist, and Tracey Simon, a social worker with extensive experience in healthcare, we initiated the Tibetan-Hibalayan Health Project to improve the health of communities in India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet. The project identifies high-quality health care facilities and projects suffering from a lack of financial resources and raises funds to facilitate their mission of providing essential healthcare.
• 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. His Holiness also addressed a luncheon to mark the founding of an endowed Tibetan Studies program at Stanford, as part of the Asian Religions & Cultures (ARC) initiative. 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 following projects: Summer Institute on Nonviolence and Social Change at the Ahimsa Center at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Ethics in Russia Project to mail free copies of the Russian translation of Ethics for the New Millennium to community, school, and prison libraries across Russia; Tibetan Prisoner's Fund of the International Campaign for Tibet; The Mechak Center for Contemporary Tibetan Art; Sarvodaya in Sri Lanka fo rTsunami relief; and The Red Cross for Katrina relief.

After 3 years of making our home at The Foundation Incubator, we moved in September 2005 to our new office in downtown Palo Alto, California. This year we welcomed four new members to our Board of Directors: Marcha Clark, Tom Nazario, Jim Schuyler and Randy Taran. We continue to operate with a super-lean, mostly volunteer staff, and to receive pro-bono contributions of management, legal and design services from many volunteers.

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