Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship : University of Hamburg

The Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship (KC-TBTS)

The KC-TBTS is devoted to scholarly investigation of Tibetan (primarily Buddhist) texts with the aim of gaining an ever greater understanding of:

Tibetan Buddhist philosophy;
Tibet’s rich intellectual history;
Tibetan textual and book culture, and
formal methods and actual practices of translation into and from Tibetan.

Announcements

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22 January 2025|KC Lecture Series

Dr. Pascale Hugon, Towards Reliable Introductory and Reference Books on the Indian Yogācāra School

16:00, 22 January 2025. ESA-Ost, Raum 120 & Zoom

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18 December 2024|KC Lecture Series

Prof. Dr. Martin Delhey, Towards Reliable Introductory and Reference Books on the Indian Yogācāra School

16:00, 18 December 2024. ESA-Ost, Raum 120 & Zoom

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6 November 2024|Workshop

ARCAS-Intellexus Workshop: Collaboration Vision and Plan

November 6–8, 2024. Location: Namdroling Monastery, Mysore, South India.

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2 November 2024|Projects

In and Around Tibetan Buddhist Texts

The project “In and Around Tibetan Buddhist Texts: A Historical-Philological-Empirical Study of Tibetan Buddhist Paratextology” is a subproject in the collaborative project “Paratexts Seeking Understanding” based at the University of Glasgow. The project, funded by the Templeton Religion...

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2 November 2024|Projects

Academic Research Consortium for Ancient Scriptures (ARCAS)

We are happy to announce the launch of the Academic Research Consortium for Ancient Scriptures (ARCAS), a long-term project funded by the Khyentse Foundation. ARCAS, which involves scholars who absorbed the four-year ARPI program led by Prof. Dorji Wangchuk and Dr. Orna Almogi, is devoted to a...

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10 July 2024|KC Lecture Series

Prof. Dr. Duojiecaidan (Dorje Tsetan), Tibetan Buddhist Influence on Tangut Buddhism

16:00, 10 July 2024. ESA-Ost, Raum 120 & Zoom

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9 July 2024|KC Lecture Series

Prof. Dr. Maho Iuchi, Post-Imperial Tibetan History and Its Sources

16:00, 9 July 2024. Alsterterrasse 1, Room 117

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26 June 2024|KC Lecture Series

Prof. Dr. Nathan Hill, Understanding Ablaut in the Tibetan Verb

16:00, 26 June 2024. ESA-Ost, Raum 120 & Zoom

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21 March 2024|Projects

INTELLEXUS

We are happy to announce that the ERC has awarded a Synergy grant to Orna Almogi, Harunaga Isaacson, and Dorji Wangchuk from the Universität Hamburg (UHH) and Shai Fine from the Reichman University (RUNI) in Israel for the project “INTELLEXUS – Geology of Texts, Genealogy of Concepts,...

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