THE AMITABHA FOUNDATION INC

Amitabha Foundation's goals are (1) to promote the survival and prosperity of Tibetan people and culture by providing humanitarian relief to Tibetans worldwide; and (2) to provide opportunities to learn about Tibetan art, language, philosophy, and to study and practice Tibetan Buddhism.

We have two main strategies to meet our goals.

(1) To promote the survival and prosperity of Tibetan people and culture we raise and distribute funds to families and individuals for education, general support, and earthquake relief and repair. We also raise funds for the construction and maintenance of monasteries, temples and retreat centers in Nepal, India and Tibet.

(2) To provide opportunities to learn about Tibetan art, language, philosophy, and to study and practice Tibetan Buddhism, we maintain a center in Rochester, New York and sponsor teachings by Tibetan lamas in locations around the USA.

We have a mailing list using of over 3,600 students interested in Tibet, Tibetan Buddhism and the teaching lineage of our founder, His Eminence Chöje Ayang Rinpoche, which we use to disseminate information about teaching schedules and to raise funds for our projects. We also raise funds using various social media platforms, including GlobalGiving, Facebook, AmazonSmile, as well as our two websites, amitabhafoundation.us and ayangrinpoche.org.

A group of students from the Amitabha Foundation and related professional organizations travels to Tibet annually to provide resources and training to health care providers at our clinic.

We host teachings, retreats, discussion groups and other activities to introduce students and provide opportunities for them to practice Tibetan Buddhism.

Our annual evaluations in Tibet indicate a steady decline in maternal and infant mortality since we began working in the area in 2004. We have trained 25 Community Health Educators, who provide safe home childbirth messages to families; as well as 2 clinic doctors and a clinic midwife who provide daily health care to a village of approximately 10,000 nomad residents.

We raised funds to sponsor the construction of several retreat cottages and the purchase of statues and ritual objects for the Amitabha Foundation temple and retreat center in Nepal, which was consecrated in 2013. Since then we have raised significant funds to repair the temple damage caused by the Earthquake in 2014 and to provide humanitarian relief to Tibetans and Nepali impacted by that disaster.

We have found sponsors and helped with the education and support of nearly 100 Tibetan refugees living in India, Nepal and Bhutan since our sponsorship program began in 1995.