SCIENCE for MONKS

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

World of Your Senses on Tour

may 1-10, san francisco

world of your senses event

may 3rd, 6-10pm

the exploratorium

where are the monastics?

find out

Just click the map!

With continued support, monastic leaders will expand their capacities to share and engage science. They will continue to write articles, teach in classrooms, organize dialogues and symposiums, and science exhibitions that travel through the Tibetan lay and monastic communities in India, and to the west. There are a number of ways you can help support the Science for Monks program.

Donations and gifts of any size can be made to the program. If you are interested in supporting Science for Monks we encourage you to contact us by email as follows:

Dr. Bryce Johnson, Ph.D. bryce@scienceformonks.org

Over the last three years, we have invested in the leadership development of 70 monastics who work together in mutually supportive learning and working groups and who can share science with other monastics and engage scientists and science educators in dialogue.

However, there are over 20,000 Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns in exile in India and Nepal. These monastics are eager to learn and form connections with science and scientists. Providing the learning opportunities and opportunities to create dialogues with scientists requires ongoing financial support, and a team of active supporters.

With sufficient support a network of science leaders can emerge that drives, re-invents, and implements science education programming and ongoing engagement in dialogue with scientists. Your support can make a big difference to the monks and nuns in India and Nepal. Contributions can be directed to support:

• Science Leadership Groups – support the ongoing projects of the leadership groups
• Science Education Centers – support a new emerging effort to create a place of ongoing science learning at key monasteries and nunneries across the exiled population.
• Science exhibitions – support exhibitions that share the monastics unique perspective on science and Buddhism. These exhibitions have been created for local lay and monastic communities in India. We hope to continue these exhibitions and also bring the monastic's exhibitions to the West.
• Dialogues on “Buddhism and science” – support dialogues organized by the science leaders that engage the monastic community and leadership, local lay Tibetan students and adults, and Indian scientist in conversations about science, philosophy, and spiritual development.
• Classroom materials – support for the monks and nuns to purchase educational material so their sharing of science can be rich in inquiry driven investigations of natural phenomena.
• Monks and nuns attending training workshops – support a monk or nun attending the Sager Science Leadership Institute, and other training programs.
• Translation of science educational materials – support the translation into Tibetan language of books, short articles, videos, hands-on science activities.
• Publication of articles – support the publication and distribution costs of written works in Tibetan language by monastic science leader and lay scholars about the intersection of science and Buddhism.