Sarah Wilkinson
Sarah Wilkinson
Sarah Wilkinson
- Academic Development CommitteeCo-Chair
- Kumarajiva ProjectEnglish Editor
Sarah is co-chair of the Academic Development Committee, which evaluates grant applications from universities and academic institutions around the world and determines which align most closely and effectively with Khyentse Foundation’s mission to preserve and promote Buddha’s wisdom. She is also a member of the Kumarajiva Project Executive Committee as the English editor.
Sarah holds a BA in Philosophy from Middlebury College and an MA in Secondary Mathematics Education from Columbia University. She completed a Master of Divinity in Buddhist Chaplaincy from University of the West while raising her three children and was ordained as a lay Buddhist minister in 2015. Sarah and her husband currently live in London, where she volunteers as a Buddhist chaplain at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. She also serves in various capacities across the Khyentse Mandala network. She was originally lured to Tibetan Buddhism by its use of reason to invite comfort in paradox.