The MWI 2024 Donor Campaign runs through December 31st

We extend our deepest appreciation for all you have done including your financial support, your dharma study and practice, your prayers, and the service you have generously offered!


For this year’s random drawing we are offering a beautiful premium quality print of Matthieu Ricard’s photograph “In Meditation” (scroll down to see image) and two copies of his book Notebooks of a Wandering Monk. You will be eligible for the drawing if during 2024 you give or have given a cumulative amount of $108 or more.


Matthieu Ricard is a buddhist monk, photographer and author. He has also been the French interpreter of His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama since 1989.

Matthieu Ricard's Photograph "In Meditation”

Photograph Description: From the Jango Thang plain, above 13,000 ft, a buddhist monk in meditation in front of the impressive Jomo Lhari glacier (24,037 ft / 7326 m), the highest mountain of Bhutan. It was climbed only once, by Spencer Chapman (UK) and Sherpa Pasang (Nepal) on 21st May 1937, and climbing was prohibited thereafter. May 2007.

 30x45 (12x18 inches) premium luster photo paper.

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