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Excellent Review of Cyrus Stearns’ King of the Empty Plain
King of the Empty Plain: The Tibetan Iron-Bridge Builder Tangtong Gyalpo. By Cyrus Stearns. Snow Lion Publications, 2007. 682 pages. $49.95. Review by Andrew Quintman: In King of the Empty Plain: The Tibetan Iron-Bridge Builder Tangtong Gyalpo,…
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Stéphane Arguillère’s blog on Klong chen pa
Stéphane Arguillère is a professor trained in both Tibetan Buddhist and Western philosophy. His work has been lauded by Matthew Kapstein and many others. For all you Francophones, please see his blog on Klong chen…
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Kapstein at Nītārtha Institute
Western Washington University – Bellingham, WA – Just last week at Nītārtha Institute’s 2009 summer program, professor Matthew Kapstein, translator of such seminal works as The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, taught five two-hour morning classes…
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Tibetan Personal Names from the Blue Annals
In case you were not aware, there is a list of easily searchable Tibetan personal names referenced in the Blue Annals here: Blue Annals Personal Names Databases This page provides links to pages of…
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Update on the Tibetan Himalayan Library
Many of you probably know THDL, but if you haven’t kept up with their machinations you may find it difficult to find information on this huge resource. The first thing to know is that…
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Bibliography of Buddhist Studies Bibliographies in Western Languages
Buddhist Studies Bibliographies Compiled by Marcus Bingenheimer and updated last in March 2008. A very useful list of bibliographies on all kinds of subjects, such as The Architecture of Tibet: An Introductory Bibliography, or Bibliographical Sources…
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Bibliographic Database on Tibet: 40000 entries
Karma dgon Tibetan Bibliography Database by Erwan Temple In case you were not aware of the existence of this wonderful resource, please take the time to sign up for a free account here: http://www.bibliographietibet.org/
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Some Reflections on the Recent Translators’ Conference 2008 in Bir
Just before leaving India, several weeks after the conference at Bir, John and I met Eric, Elizabeth and Marcus in Delhi. We exchanged views about the conference and I mentioned a memorandum I had…
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Find Tibetan, Chinese, Sanskrit and Pali parallel texts
SuttaCentral allows for searches between Chinese, Tibetan, and sanskrit “parallels” and “counterparts” to the suttas of the four main Pali Nikayas. You may want to see their help page before searching through the database.…
