By Christian Torres
Stanford, July 13 : After just one year of existence, Stanford’s Tibetan Studies Program received its first endowment of $1 million. Following a $500,000 donation by the Tara Foundation, the University matched it with another $500,000 from Hewlett funds.
Created from the endowment, the new Tara Foundation Fund will provide fellowships to graduate students in the School of Humanities and Sciences whose focus is related to Tibet. Currently, no such students have been identified, but the funds will meanwhile provide for teaching, research, conferences, visiting professors, lecturers, library purchases and curriculum needs.
“We are delighted to share this wonderful news with all of you who have helped make this inaugural year of Stanford’s new Tibetan Studies Program such a success, and wish to publicly express our deep gratitude to the Tara Foundation for its great generosity and sincere interest in helping to promote research on Tibet,” said Dr. Wendy Abraham in an announcement email. She is the associate director of the Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies, which is a part of the Asian Religions and Cultures Initiative here at Stanford.
