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Create a lasting legacy to support Nalandabodhi by joining our Noble Heart Circle. Your planned gift can provide a wisdom legacy for the next generation.
The Noble Heart Circle is a community of people who want Nalandabodhi to flourish now, and into the future. Many of our members and friends make a gift to Nalandabodhi in their will or estate plans, and in this way they support our mission to share the timeless wisdom and boundless compassion of the Buddha for the next generation.
You can join the Noble Heart Circle, too. Giving a percentage of your estate will help Nalandabodhi continue to share the dharma with students and practitioners around the globe.
Making a legacy gift is easy, and you don’t need to be wealthy to do so.
One simple way to build your dharma legacy is by making your will and including a gift to Nalandabodhi in your plans. Our partner, FreeWill, provides individuals in the United States with a secure online tool you can use to make or update your will in just 20 minutes at absolutely no cost.
Make a Beneficiary Designation on other financial instruments
An easy way to provide Nalandabodhi money outside of a Will, Trust or other estate planning document is to name Nalandabodhi as the beneficiary on any asset—bank account, brokerage account, stocks, mutual fund, retirement account, or life insurance. If you have any non-probate assets not included in your will, such as an IRA, 401(k), or life insurance policy, you can also use FreeWill to help you plan your beneficiaries.
If you are outside the United States and wish to include Nalandabodhi in your estate plan, you may be able to include Nalandabodhi as a beneficiary in your will or other assets. The information about Nalandabodhi that you will need can be found here:
Have you already made a wisdom legacy gift to Nalandabodhi?
Please let us know so that we can acknowledge your generous intention to create a wisdom legacy for the next generation. If you’ve already included a gift to Nalandabodhi in your will, or made another type of beneficiary designation, please fill out this form so we can ensure our records are up-to-date and say thank you.
Contact us
We welcome the opportunity to discuss planned giving and assist you if you would like to join the Noble Heart Circle and make a wisdom legacy gift to Nalandabodhi. Please email us at development@nalandabodhi.org.
Words from members of the Noble Heart Circle
“As a longtime grief counselor, I know how important it is to make your wishes known, not only for how you want your end of life to be, but also, what you want to leave for others, and what you want your legacy to be. For me, I wanted to leave something for Nalandabodhi, which has been so important to me in my personal growth. To that end, my will directs my estate to leave a percentage of my monetary assets (after payment of expenses), to Nalandabodhi. Doing this has given me great comfort, knowing that I will continue to contribute to Nalandabodhi after my death.”
“In 2014 while packing to go to Nepal for Khenpo Rinpoche’s birthday celebration, I read this quote from Ray Charles: ‘Live each day as if it’s your last….one day you are going to be right.’ Wow, I thought, my will is out of date. What can I do that’s quick and easy? We had taken out whole life insurance policies when our daughter Anna was born. The family doesn’t really need that money now. So, a phone call, email form and walk to our neighborhood notary and I was ready. I travelled knowing that my heart’s deepest longing, to honor and support the three jewels, could at least have some money to go with my aspirations. That life insurance policy is divided between Marpa Foundation (KTGR) and Nalandabodhi. No fuss, no lawyer, no big deal. Some day it will go directly, outside my estate, to what is most important in my life. So easy; I can relax."
"I am a long-time student of our dear teacher, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, so granting a quarter of my assets to Nalandabodhi makes perfect sense. Do know my partner, who is a longtime student of Venerable Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, is doing the same. What better way to benefit others, at the end of one's life when the Guru takes the supreme place at the top of your head, than to recognize the great aspiration of melding absolute and relative bodhicitta.”
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