Updates from the Boulder Research Library
Updates from the Boulder Research Library We are steadily expanding the holdings of our library here in Boulder, Colorado. Here are some of the more recent works added to our research library: Faxian. Mémoire sur les pays bouddhiques. Les Belles Lettres, 2014. Yang Xuangzhi. Mémoire sur les monastères bouddhiques de Louyang. Les Belles Lettres, 2014. Akester, Matthew. 2012. The [...]
Did Machik Really Teach Chöd?
Did Machik Really Teach Chöd? Did Machik Lapdrön Really Teach Chöd? A Survey of the Early Sourcesby Sarah Harding This provocative title is a result of a persistent question in the back of my mind for several years while I was researching and translating the early gcod texts from Jamgön Kongtrul’s Treasury of Precious Instructions (gDams ngag rin chen [...]
Earliest Buddhist Shrine Incident
Earliest Buddhist Shrine Incident In case you missed the hubbub about the "discovery" in Nepal, here is an excellent response from Dr. Gombrich. This "discovery" was something even the BBC reported. Recent discovery of “earliest Buddhist shrine” a sham? The story that garnered international headlines made numerous unfounded and misinformed claims by Professor Richard Gombrich In the December 2013 [...]
Boulder’s Emily Yeh publishes Taming Tibet with Cornell University Press
Boulder's Emily Yeh publishes Taming Tibet with Cornell University Press Yeh, Emily T. Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2013. Emily brings her considerable knowledge and depth of research to a range of fascinating topics that provide a truly rich picture of [...]
Daniel E. Perdue Passes On
Daniel E. Perdue Passes On Graduate of the Indo-Tibetan Studies program at the University of Virginia, Doctor Daniel E. Perdue, author of Debate in Tibetan Buddhism (published by Snow Lion in 1992), passed away on November 18th, 2013. Obituaries can be found at H-Net, The Roanoke Times, and Richmond Times Dispatch.
Great Accomplishments: Tibetan Translations in 2013
Great Accomplishments: Tibetan Translations in 2013 2013 It has been an active year for the publication of translations. Here are some highlights from the year: (please do add a comment if you feel something is missing) The Light of Wisdom series from Rangjung Yeshe Publications will be complete this year with the publication of both the Great [...]
Tsadra Website Launched
Tsadra Website Launched www.tsadra.org The Tsadra Foundation website has been completely redesigned and updated with information about all our areas of activity. Contemplation: Publication: Translation: Higher Education: Scholarships: Home Page:
13th IATS Seminar in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
13th IATS Seminar in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia by Sarah Harding This year the seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies was held in Mongolia, co-sponsored by the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, in association with the National University of Mongolia. It was a fitting place for international scholars of Tibetan studies to convene, given the long, ancient history with Tibet and [...]
Translating Buddhist Luminaries: A Conference on Ecumenism and Tibetan Translation
Translating Buddhist Luminaries: A Conference on Ecumenism and Tibetan Translation The Tsadra Foundation and Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder are collaborating on a conference, "Translating Buddhist Luminaries: A Conference on Ecumenism and Tibetan Translation," scheduled for April 18-20, 2013 on the CU Boulder campus. Buddhist luminaries, clustered in eastern Tibet in the nineteenth-century, composed [...]
The Tulku Institution in Tibetan Buddhism: A Symposium at USF, February 15 & 16, 2013
The Tulku Institution in Tibetan Buddhism: A Symposium at USF, February 15 & 16, 2013 The symposium held this past weekend at the University of San Francisco was a gathering of scholars from around the world who presented papers focused on the "Tulku" (སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་ , sprul sku) institution of Tibetan Buddhism. Organized by professor Tsering Wangchuk and Jake Nagasawa, the [...]
Summer Language Intensives in Tibetan and Sanskrit at Mangalam Research Center, Berkeley
Summer Language Intensives in Tibetan and Sanskrit at Mangalam Research Center, Berkeley See updated information for 2017 here: https://www.mangalamresearch.org/programs/summerlanguage/ The Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist Languages will be offering 7-week language programs in both Sanskrit and Tibetan this summer with Dr. Ligeia Lugli (SOAS) and Dr. Alberto Todeschini (UVa) respectively. Applications for both these programs are due by May 1, [...]
Publication of the Treasury of Knowledge Series Completed
Publication of the Treasury of Knowledge Series Completed Oct 26, 2012 Dear friends, We are delighted to announce that the final volume of the ten-volume Treasury of Knowledge Series has now been published. This brings to completion a project begun by the previous Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche and his students over 25 years ago, and is - [...]