For the last decade Inverness Research has worked with the Science for Monks (SFM) program helping them document and portray their work. Our researchers travel to India and Bhutan as participant observers doing ethnographic work so that they can portray the nature of the SFM work, the learning of the monastics, as well as the experiences of western educators; through interviews and extended site visits our researchers have studied many different SFM institutes and workshops. Our goal is to help communicate to others the value of the SFM work and how it serves monks, nuns, the monastic educational system, and the western faculty who participate. This portfolio of field reports summarizes that work, and we hope it will provide others with insight into the reasons for and benefits of the SFM program.
Recent Field Reports
Findings and Observations at the Teacher Fellowship Meeting
Field Report – Pondicherry
Year – 2020
Author – Kapil Bisht
Bhutan Leadership Workshop
Field Report – Paro, Bhutan
Year – 2019
Author – Scott Stambach
Beyond the Nunnery: Findings and Observations at a 10-day Science Workshop
Field Report – Kathmandu (Kopan Nunnery)
Year – 2019
Author – Kapil Bisht
Discovering the Leader Within: Findings and Observations at the Final Science Workshop for Members of the 3rd Leadership Cohort
Field Report – Dharamsala (Tibetan Library)
Year – 2019
Author – Kapil Bisht
Findings and Observations on a Nuns Workshop
Field Report – Kathmandu (Kopan Nunnery)
Year – 2018
Author – Kapil Bisht
Summary of Findings: The Sera Jey Science Center Interviews
Field Report – Bylakuppe (Sera Jey Monastery)
Year – 2018
Author – Scott Stambach
Reflections on First Nun’s Workshop
Field Report – Dharamsala (Dolmaling Nunnery)
Year – 2017
Author – Laurie Lopez, Mark St John
Reflections on Interviews with Monks
Field Report – Dharamsala (Tibetan Library)
Year – 2017
Author – Scott Stambach, Mark St John
Reflections on Interviews with Program Faculty
Field Report – Dharamsala (Tibetan Library)
Year – 2017
Author – Scott Stambach, Mark St John
Two Weeks in Tibet (sort of), The Value of a Cultural Exchange between Science and Spirituality
Field Report – Bylakuppe (Sera Monastery)
Year – 2015
Author – Scott Stambach
Findings from the First KSTF Internship
Field Report – Dharamsala (Tibetan Library)
Year – 2015
Author – Scott Stambach