Last Updated on February 10, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
Upon the wish of H.H. the Dalai Lama, the Tibet Institute Rikon was founded in 1966 by the brothers Henri and Jacques Kuhn. The institute is under the patronage of H.H. the Dalai Lama who chooses the Abbots and assigns the monastery its duties.
https://tibet-institut.ch/content/tir/en/dalai_lama.html
Jacques Kuhn was a Swiss entrepreneur and inventor. He was the developer of the “Duromatic” pressure cooker for the Kuhn Rikon company, of which he was managing director from 1969 to 1984.
In the 1960s he supported the founding of the Tibet Institute Rikon.
Born: February 15, 1919
Deceased: December 30, 2016