Kremsegg University
Train the mind.
Impact the world.
Cultivate flourishing.
An innovative university is taking shape in the hills of Upper Austria, created by world-renowned contemplative teachers, academic scholars, and experienced leaders.
An education rooted in contemplative wisdom and engaged with the sciences of mind, complexity, and leadership.
Our core principles
The whole person.
Most institutions simply transfer knowledge. Kremsegg University develops the whole person to use that knowledge wisely. Academic rigor and contemplative training are not two separate here. The curriculum is built around presence, interdependence, discernment, and integrity, so that what you learn and who you become advance together.
Academic Programs
For the world that’s coming.
This is where intelligence finds its purpose in compassionate action. Students learn to think systemically — to see how culture, economics, and ecology interact across scales — and to develop the inner life that makes such thinking usable under real pressure. Graduates embody these capacities wherever they serve: classrooms and clinics, nonprofits and ministries, governments and companies. In a world that has mastered the accumulation of knowledge but not the wisdom to apply it, this is the capability the moment demands.
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Rooted, and open.
Kremsegg University is guided by the Venerable Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, one of the great Buddhist teachers of our era, and rooted in a lineage of study and practice refined over centuries. That depth is precisely what makes its openness possible: the university welcomes students and scholars of every tradition, and actively seeks dialogue with the world’s contemplative and intellectual heritages — not as a gesture of tolerance, but as part of its method. Educated by a faculty who are both academically credentialed and trained in the traditions they teach, graduates are equally at home in a monastery or a boardroom, a classroom or a clinic.
Project Team“Intelligence without compassion is dangerous. Compassion without wisdom cannot see the path forward.”Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, Spiritual Guide
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Three ways into the University
The Vision
Why the whole person and the life they lead are not separate domains — and why the time is now.
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Two tracks, one contemplative foundation: Applied Contemplative Practices and Coherent Leadership, at BA and MA level.
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