Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship

Tibetan boasts a wide range of first person pronouns, including ṅa, bdag, ṅan-bu, kho-bo, kho-mo, ṅed, bdag-cag, yu-bu-cag, and ḥo-skol. All of these become ‘me’ or ‘us’ in English, but how are they different in Tibetan? In this paper, I survey my own previous findings and fill in the picture...

The Award will be conferred at the Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg. The conferral ceremony will be marked with a Festvortrag by Prof. Dr. Birgit Kellner (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna), for which, see separate Invitation. The...

Buddha Aparimitāyurjñāna’s reputation across the prosperous peripheries of the Tibetan Empire is evidenced by the discovery of more than one-thousand Tibetan copies of his dhāraṇī-sūtra in Dunhuang. The Aparimitāyur-jnāna-nāma-mahāyānasūtra (Tib. Tshe dang ye shes dpag tu med pa zhes bya ba...