The Tsoknyi Nuns Endowment Fund
An important way to ensure the education, health, and spiritual well-being of the Tsoknyi Nuns is to create a self-sustaining endowment fund. This fund will provide the financial resources to support them into the indefinite future.
Thanks to the generosity of our community, the Tsoknyi Nuns Endowment has reached its initial goal. This long-term fund is invested with care—aligned with values that support environmental responsibility, women’s empowerment, and diversity. The endowment will remain untouched during Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s lifetime, ensuring a stable foundation for generations to come.
As the number of nuns continues to grow, we now turn our focus to their daily needs: food, education, healthcare, and living expenses, and to the creation of a new shedra (monastic college) to support their study and practice. Your continued support makes this possible.
How You Can Help
A planned gift is a powerful way to practice generosity and to sustain the Tsoknyi Nuns
for future generations. Â
Michael Kunkel,
Planned Giving Director, Pundarika Foundation
kunkel@pundarika.org
FAQs
An endowment fund provides annual support using the earnings from investments.
A typical endowment distributes 4.5%-5% per year to its beneficiaries while keeping the principal intact.
Tsoknyi Rinpoche created an endowment fund for his nuns beginning in 2004.
The funds are located in the United States, with two highly rated investment firms.
A THF Financial Advisory Committee has been established to monitor and work with our financial advisors.
