Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship : University of Hamburg

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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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16 July 2025|KC Lecture Series

Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Mathes, Bcom ldan Rig pa’i ral gri’s Madhyamakālaṃkāropadeśa Commentary

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

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25 June 2025|KC Lecture Series

Dr. Zhouyang Ma, In Search of Jo btsun

16:00, 25 June 2025. ESA-Ost, Raum 120 & Zoom

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18 March 2025|Workshop

ARCAS-Intellexus Workshop 2

March 18–20, 2025. Location: Shechen Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal.

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12 March 2025|Workshop

Monastic Research Centers Consortium (MRCC) Annual Workshop 1

March 12–17, 2025. Location: Shechen Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal.

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22 January 2025|KC Lecture Series

Dr. Pascale Hugon, Filling the Gaps in the Early Tibetan Scholastic Corpus

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 — postponed

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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