Indian Council for Cultural Relations
Led by the Buddhist scholar Lokesh Chandra, the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) ICCR is an organization of the government of India supporting cultural exchange, dialogue, and India's external cultural relations. Centered in New Delhi, the ICCR offers an online library comprised of culturally…
Digital Divide Data
Digital Divide Data transforms lives around the world through sustainable training and employment programs which provide a path to lifelong employment and opportunity. DDD has built a proven work-study methodology to train, support and employ talented individuals around the world, and thereby provide high quality,…
Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies
The Central University of Tibetan Studies (CUTS) at Sarnath is one of a kind in the country. The university was established in 1967. The university was established in 1967 for the education of the young Tibetans and those from the Himalayan border regions of India,…
Fragile Palm Leaves Foundation
The Fragile Palm Leaves Foundation is a non-profit foundation based in Bangkok, Thailand. It developed from the Fragile Palm Leaves manuscript preservation project, which began in Bangkok in 1994. The project became a registered foundation under Thai law on February 21, 2001 (Registration No. To….
Leonard van der Kuijp
Harvard University
Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp is Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies with the Department of South Asian Studies and with the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations of Harvard University. He chairs the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies of Harvard University….
Gray Tuttle
Gray Tuttle is presently the Leila Hadley Luce Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies in Columbia University's department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. He studies the history of twentieth century Sino-Tibetan relations as well as Tibet's relations with the China-based Manchu Qing empire. The role…
Shelley F. Rubin
Shelley Rubin is Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Board of RMA (Rubin Museum of Art) which opened October, 2004. RMA, a museum dedicated to the art of the Himalayas, is located in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York. The dream to found a museum grew…
Timothy J. McNeill
Timothy J. McNeill has been president, CEO, and publisher of Wisdom Publications, a leading non-profit publisher of books focusing on Buddhism, since 1988. Mr. McNeill earned a Masters in Public Policy (MPP) degree from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1979 after…
David Lunsford
David Lunsford is the founder and executive director of the Bodhi Foundation, a private non-profit foundation dedicated to assembling conditions that benefit beings. David received training in computer engineering and advanced technology from the University of Texas at Austin in the early 1980s. He then…
Richard Lanier
Richard Lanier is president emeritus of the Asian Cultural Council and a founding trustee of the Trust for Mutual Understanding in New York. After receiving his M.A. at New York University, he taught art history at the University of California in Santa Barbara and at…