How your Donations Help the Shambhala Archives
What donations are needed for
- VCTR Ladrang Project: Updating inventory and storage site for personal belongings of VCTR
- Updating our mass storage drives to store and protect all of our digitized audio, video and photographic material.
- Upgrading our Database Software
- Replacing or repairing essential computer equipment
- Replacing and maintaining our Audio visual equipment
- Repairing and maintaining the dehumidifiers and AC units needed to keep the archival materials in a stable environment
- New materials such as archival-grade tissue paper, boxes, and photo sleeves to ensure the preservation of the personal belongings of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
Recent projects completed, thanks to donations received
- Video Tapes – digitizing 470 S-VHS tapes making up a total of roughly 705 hours. This project began in August of 2020 and was completed in August of 2021 by Technical Director Rosie Pittas.
- Audio Tapes – transcribing and digitizing Kalapa Lodge audio tapes, over several months, by Archival Assistant Torin Vigerstad.
- Photographs – scanning, describing and entering the information of hundreds of photographs into our museum database. This project was supported in part by Canada 2021 Summer Jobs Program by our summer student Will Hadfield.
- Database – updating our Media Database with the information and data of all the digitized videos held at the Shambhala Archives.
What we do day-to-day, ongoing efforts
- Digitizing and Editing Audio and Video
- Scanning and preserving photographs
- Maintaining storage space for the personal belongings of Trungpa Rinpoche
- Maintenance of the permanent Archives exhibit at HSC
- Updating and revamping the Shambhala Archives Website
- Working on updating the Archives Media and Library database
- Responding to requests for audio, video, photographs and historical records.
- Correspondence, grant writing, record management
- Supervision of students and volunteers
- Research, data entry, interviews, tours of Archives.
How to Donate
Contributions can be made by pressing one of the buttons below.
Contributions can also be made in person or by sending a Cheque with Archives in the memo and sent to the address below.
Shambhala Office of Finance
1084 Tower Road
Halifax, NS B3H 2Y5
Canada
*Please note that the Shambhala Office of Finance is now located at the Halifax Shambhala Center
Making a Charitable Bequest
There are several ways to include the Shambhala Archives in your planned giving
For information about leaving a bequest to Shambhala Archives, learn more or contact the Shambhala Development Director here.