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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…
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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
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
