Tengyur Translation Conference 2011
Tengyur Translation Conference 2011 See the follow up to this blog post here. Tengyur Translation Conference Banner The crowd on the opening day of the conference in Atisha Hall The "Tengyur Translation Conference: In the Tradition of the 17 Pandits of Nalanda," was held at the Central University of Tibetan Studies (CUTS, formerly CIHTS) [...]
Announcing a Dharma teaching
Announcing a Dharma teaching Dear friends, I am pleased to announce that under the sponsorship of Do Ngag Kunphen Ling of Redding, CT and the Mahayana Sutra and Tantra Center of Howell, NJ an extraordinary teaching event will be held in New York City this summer, from August 13 to August 21. Gyume Khensur Lobsang Jampa Rinpoche, an esteemed [...]
8th Annual Symposium on Buddhist Studies in Kathmandu
8th Annual Symposium on Buddhist Studies in Kathmandu Kathmandu University and the Centre for Buddhist Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute will host the 8th Annual Symposium on Buddhist Studies on Saturday, December 11th, 2010 from 1pm to 5pm at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Boudhanath, Kathmandu, Nepal. Theme: "Great Debates" Speakers: Dr. Tom Tillemans, University of Lausanne Dr. [...]
Digital Library Internship at TBRC Announced
Digital Library Internship at TBRC Announced TBRC is now accepting applications for internships in several areas related to the digital library. See their blog here: DIGITAL LIBRARY INTERNSHIP AT TBRC
International Conference on Tibetan Buddhism Begins
International Conference on Tibetan Buddhism Begins The second International Conference on Tibetan Buddhism began today, October 19th, at Emory University. Several hundred scholars and writers, venerable nuns and monks, lamas and tulkus, and representatives from sangha's around the world converged on the Emory Conference Center in Atlanta, Georgia for a meeting of influential minds. The attendance list reads like [...]
Canonicity in Buddhism and Christianity
Canonicity in Buddhism and Christianity Before continuing to make notes about some of the interesting papers at the IATS conference this past August, I wanted to sneak in a little note about one of my teacher's work. Dr. Phil Stanley has been working on analyzing the Tibetan canons for more than sixteen years. His work includes [...]
A quick note on “Kānha: An Anomalous Siddha?”
A quick note on “Kānha: An Anomalous Siddha?” One of the few mentions of Tibetan sources at the Society for Tantric Studies Conference came from a young scholar at the University of Chicago who provided an interesting discussion of Kānha and the Grub thob brgyad bcu tsa bzhi'i lo rgyus. Samuel Hopkins noted that while most of the stories [...]
Society for Tantric Studies Conference 2010
Society for Tantric Studies Conference 2010 The Society for Tantric Studies met in September this year at the Little America Hotel in Flagstaff, Arizona. Last week the Tsadra Scouts were sent to observe "academic Tantrikas" in their natural environment, The Society for Tantric Studies Conference. Composed of a relatively small group of scholars, the Society of [...]
Tibetan Genre Classifications
Tibetan Genre Classifications "Collected Writings: (gsung 'bum) in Tibetan Literature: Towards a Systematic Study of Their Compilation, Redaction and Composition and Its Use for Genre Classifications" by Jim Rheingans - Universität Bonn I was keen to hear what Dr. Rheingans had to say regarding Tibetan genre because of our recent attempts to catalog the gdams ngag mdzod and all of the [...]
‘Tools of the Trade’ of the Tibetan Translators
'Tools of the Trade' of the Tibetan Translators 'Tools of the Trade' of the Tibetan Translators Pieter Verhagen, Leiden University, The Netherlands (12th Seminar of the IATS, Vancouver, BC, August 16th, 2010) Pieter Verhagen presented a list of textual sources that he believes the early Tibetan translators of Indian Buddhist texts relied upon as "tools of [...]
A Quick Overview of the 12th IATS Seminar
A Quick Overview of the 12th IATS Seminar One hundred and ninety-five institutions from 25 nations attended 51 panels on Tibetan studies in five days spent on the UBC campus outside of Vancouver, Canada. Almost every country with a university program devoted to Tibetan studies in some form or another was represented at this year’s conference in Vancouver: Australia, [...]
IATS Commences: "Let the Games Begin"
IATS Commences: "Let the Games Begin" This morning (Monday August 16th) marked the commencement of the 12th IATS conference. The opening included a general welcome by Tsering Shakya; followed by a brief welcome, a few jokes about wearing ties, and an exhortation to find a way to transmit the important knowledge held by "the world's brain [...]