RYI Student Blog

-Michelle Silva Magrini, MAPREP student from Brazil When I first came to Kathmandu, in June 2025, a nun friend of mine took me to some

-Rochak Gurung, MAPREP student from Nepal As a traditional thangka artist, I have always been interested in moving beyond culturally established representations and exploring contemporary

-Pema Wangmo Tamang, BA student from Bhutan As I have heard, it prevailed. As I have visualised, it availed. It was not a coincidence, nor

-Samuel Laverack Jacobson, MABS student from United States Author’s Note: This piece was first composed in the spring of 2026 for a student art journal,

-Thao Ngo, MATTIP student from Vietnam One month into the first semester of the second year of our MA TTIP program, the Methodology Seminar has

-Dan Xiang, MA student from China Sitting in the profound stillness of a meditation cave on the Tibetan Plateau, I often found myself reflecting on

-Arun Magar, MA student from Nepal Music is a medium through which people connect with their emotions, express their culture, and preserve their traditions. In

-Aidan Meyer-Golden, MAPREP student from United States Arriving at RYI, I was immediately struck by the variety of academic backgrounds from which many of my

-Dawa Yanzi Sherpa, MA student from Nepal In class, it is so easy to get lost in big ideas. We spend hours talking about profound

Rangjung Yeshe Institute has always been my second home since I joined for my higher studies. I am deeply convinced of the scholar-practitioner approach emphasized