The Future Vision for the Jokhang Institute

With the advent of Lama Sonam’s initiation of the Jokhang Institute’s activities with the arrival of the Jowo Rinpoche statue, a great step has been taken to infuse new life into Tibetan cultural and spiritual studies nationally and internationally.

In keeping with the Jokhang Institute’s mission-- to provide educational and spiritual research facilities and outreach-- the vision includes a permanent location for those facilities along with exhibit and performance space. Ideally, there would be housing available for visiting scholars, teachers and researchers.

Already under way, are weekly classes in Tibetan language and a budding library for reference and research. We look forward to producing classes in traditional Tibetan arts as well as courses in Tibetan history, and the development of a cross-cultural studies syllabus for generating an open dialog between Tibetans residing in exile and their neighbours.

This will be a broad-based and long-ranged process as the Institute evolves into a viable and thriving educational and spiritual resource for the future.