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TBRC

  • Digital Dharma, The Story of E. Gene Smith

    Digital Dharma, The Story of E. Gene Smith

    A private screening of a new movie about the great scholar and collector of Tibetan texts, E. Gene Smith, will be shown in Boulder on December 15th, 2011.

    You are invited to a special preview of the upcoming documentary, Digital Dharma, the story of E. Gene Smith, founder of the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC) and a pioneer in Tibetan Studies who dedicated his life to finding, preserving and disseminating the rich literary heritage of Tibet. Next week will mark one year since the death of E. Gene Smith. An evening of remembrance on December 15th will include a preview screening of Digital Dharma, the feature-length HD documentary about Gene’s life’s work. www.digitaldharma.com.

    This sneak peek of the film will be hosted for hundreds of worldwide fans of the film’s central character via the virtual environment platform of vcopious™, a Philadelphia-based global virtual environment technology provider. The live event will be streamed from The 8th Floor, a gallery and screening room in New York City.

    The local Rocky Mountain showing will be at:
    University of Colorado, Boulder Campus
    ATLS 1B31 (on 18th Ave if you’re coming from Broadway)
    Thursday December 15, 2011
    4-6 pm

    Map: http://www.colorado.edu/campusmap/map.html?bldg=ATLSLocal
    Contact: Nicole Willock, University of Denver postdoctoral fellow
    (nwillock@gmail.com)

  • IABS 2011: Reporting from Taiwan (Gene Smith Panel)

    IABS 2011: Reporting from Taiwan (Gene Smith Panel)

    Convened by Michael Sheehy and Jeff Wallman of TBRC, “Gene Smith: His Life and Work” was the first panel I attended at IABS 2011 Congress.

    Michael Sheehy gave a formal presentation entitled “Banned Books, Sealed Printeries and Neglected Dkar chag” that described some fascinating research on the history of Takten Damchö Phuntsok Ling Monastery (where Tāranātha passed on) and its printery. He recounted three separate attempts to rescue the woodblocks of Jonang texts from the Phuntsok Ling printery by three different Tibetan lamas over several centuries following Tāranātha’s death. It is not until the efforts of Losal Tenkyong (blo gsal bstan skyong), a Zhwa lu Tulku who was close to Jamgon Kongtrul, that the printery doors were unlocked and a dkar chag of the texts found there was created.

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  • TBRC Publishes New Blog

    TBRC Publishes New Blog

    In case you didn’t get the memo, this is one of the new ways of interacting with the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center: http://blog.tbrc.org/. It will include new additions to the TBRC library, new publications, important technology projects, new work on medical literature and the Tibetan Buddhist canons project, new outlines, new biographical projects , new models, new partnerships and news about our organization.