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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…
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Tibetan Year Calculations Made Easy
Fred Coulson’s blog has a calculator that will convert your Tibetan year into a Western equivalent. Provide the animal, element, and rab byung and you might get something useful: http://phlonx.com/resources/tibetan calendar/ For more on…
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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,…
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The 16th Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies Begins
The 16th Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies is under way here at Dharma Drum Buddhist College in Jinshan, New Taipei, Taiwan. The opening session of the Congress included a truly fascinating…
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Glossaries for Buddhist Studies
Update on Buddhist Studies resources on the web: There are some new additions to Marcus Bingenheimer’s excellent resource “Glossaries for Buddhist Studies.”
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Tsadra Foundation’s Advanced Contemplative Scholarships
The Advanced Contemplative Scholarship program was launched in 2009 under the direction of Anthony Chapman and the first scholarships were awarded for retreat in 2010. Now in 2011 the second cohort of recipients are…
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Tsadra Foundation’s Advanced Buddhist Studies Scholarships
Tsadra Foundation’s Advanced Buddhist Studies Scholarship program was launched in 2009 under the direction of Tsadra Fellow Elizabeth Callahan and the first recipients began study at monastic colleges in India and Nepal in 2010.…
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The Four Applications (T: rigs pa bzhi)
Dr. Art Engle gave a presentation on his work at the recent Tsadra Foundation Fellows and Grantees Conference entitled “Observations on Asanga’s Bodhisattvabhūmi.” During his talk he discussed the translation of rigs pa as…
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The Challenge of a Faithful Translation
The Challenge of translation – Faithful yes, but not a slave BY CHRISTIAN CHARRIER While no one disputes that a translation must be truthful, the definition of truthfulness and the ways in which translators…
