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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…
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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…
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IATS 2010 Begins!
The 2010 International Association of Tibetan Studies Conference will open tomorrow morning in Frederic Wood Theatre at UBC in Vancouver. The UBC campus has already been filled with a veritable who’s who of Tibetan…
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Beautiful digitzed pechas of them spang ma and Peking editions of the Kangyur now available
DPS – Digital Preservation Society For the stunning price of $4,700 you can order 7 DVDs of the high quality digitized them spang ma edition held in the National Library of Mongolia. The Peking…
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New Journal of Buddhist Philosophy
SUNY Press is happy to announce the launching of a new, peer-reviewed,academic journal, the Journal of Buddhist Philosophy. Information about the new journal can be found here:http://sites.google.com/site/journalofbuddhistphilosophy From the website: The first issue is…
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Panel Schedule for the International Association of Tibetan Studies Conference
The IATS 2010 Schedule is now posted at Vancouver’s Institute of Asian Research website. Tsadra Foundation will be represented at the conference by Karl Brunnholzl, Sarah Harding, Stephanie Johnston and Marcus Perman. Blog posts…
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New Times New Roman fonts available
In case you were unaware, the newly updated version of the Times New Roman font now includes diacritics from the Latin Extended Additional character area, which includes dots above and below letters and other…