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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…
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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…
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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…
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Great Accomplishments: Tibetan Translations in 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…
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Tsadra Website Launched
www.tsadra.orgThe 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:
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
