Tergar Schools creates K–12 schools that foster kind and resilient human beings who embody awareness, love, compassion, wisdom, and joy.
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When Learning Comes to Life: First Trimester Learning Exhibition
The Music Started Anyway On the morning of August 6, before the First Trimester Learning Exhibition could officially begin, the students of Tergar Schools Kathmandu had to do something that doesn’t come easily to any group of children: wait. So Learning Leader Karma Shendon encouraged the students to play some music. Thapse joined in on
How Children Become Who They’re Meant to Be
What if love isn’t something we add to education — it’s what makes learning possible in the first place? That was the question we brought to Portland State University earlier this month, in partnership with our friends at Peace in Schools. About 200 people showed up to sit with it. By the end of the
Guiding Principle
The view that all beings are imbued with kindness and resilience guides everything we do. Our path of learning is a holistic and experiential process. We recognize these inherent qualities, unlock their potential, and embody them for the welfare of all.
Mission
Based in the vision of Mingyur Rinpoche, Tergar Schools creates K–12 schools that weave together Buddhist view, meditation, and application with contemporary fields of study. We employ innovative teaching approaches that foster curious and creative learners who thrive in and contribute to a complex, interconnected, and changing world.
Overview
Learning Approach
The Buddhist Experience Curriculum (BEC) teaches Tibetan Buddhist practices and principles, emphasizing the inherent goodness of all beings and progressing through the themes of Awareness, Love and Compassion, and Wisdom, culminating in a joyful school ethos.
Our curriculum explores each topic through three traditional Buddhist elements: view, meditation, and application. This framework encompasses the cognitive, affective, and nonconceptual forms of knowing, where the view refers to learning; meditation involves experiential learning of awareness, compassion, wisdom, and joy; and application is about putting the learned topics into practice in daily life.
Our curriculum provides learning that 1) emerges through lived experience; 2) is explored through contemplative practices; 3) is inquiry-based; and 4) emphasizes daily-life application.
Our integrated academic curriculum is based on the view of basic goodness, and it encourages exploration and discovery in classrooms. We utilize real-world examples and aim to scaffold knowledge and skills that are relevant to students’ lives. This is done through a series of spiraled topics and units that are integrated in nature, emphasizing four baskets: communication, culture, environment, and design.
