All Announcements (2016)7 December 2016|KC Lecture SeriesTibetan Words for ‘Me’ and ‘Us’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...7 December 2016|KC Lecture SeriesDr. Nathan Hill: “Tibetan Words for ‘Me’ and ‘Us’”Photo: Orna AlmogiTibetan 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...3 December 2016|WorkshopITLR Input & Editorial WorkshopPhoto: Orna AlmogiDecember 3rd, 2016, Department of Indian & Tibetan Studies, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg The Khyentse Center is organizing an ITLR Workshop to take...9 November 2016|KC Lecture SeriesDr. Toshio Horiuchi: “The Seven Bhāvasvabhāvas and Seven Paramārthas in the Laṅkāvatārasūtra: Methodological Remarks on the New Edition of Chapter II of the Laṅkāvatārasūtra”Photo: Orna AlmogiAs for the Sanskrit text of the Laṅkāvatārasūtra, since more than 90 years have passed since the publication of Nanjio’s version (1923), it seems that...9 November 2016|KC Lecture SeriesThe Seven Bhāvasvabhāvas and Seven Paramārthas in the Laṅkāvatārasūtra: Methodological Remarks on the New Edition of Chapter II of the LaṅkāvatārasūtraAs for the Sanskrit text of the Laṅkāvatārasūtra, since more than 90 years have passed since the publication of Nanjio’s version (1923), it seems that...18 September 2016|WorkshopWorkshop: Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship: Means and Methods of Research (Level 1)Photo: Orna AlmogiSeptember 18–27, 2016, Dzongsar Monastery, India As a part of the ARPI project—aiming at fostering research activities in the Himalayan Buddhist...13 July 2016|KC Lecture SeriesProf. Birgit Kellner: “On Proving Idealism: Arguments from Dharmakīrti”Photo: Orna AlmogiThe influential Indian Buddhist philosopher Dharmakirti (between mid-6th and mid-7th century CE) operated with alternating, mutually conflicting...27 June 2016|KC Lecture SeriesProf. Georgios T. Halkias: “Reflections on the dhāraṇī of Aparimitāyurjñāna in Tibetan Buddhist Literature”Photo: Orna AlmogiBuddha Aparimitāyurjñāna’s reputation across the prosperous peripheries of the Tibetan Empire is evidenced by the discovery of more than one-thousand...13 April 2016|KC Lecture SeriesProf. Matthew Kapstein: “The All-Encompassing Lamp of Awareness: A Forgotten Treasure of the Great Perfection, Its Authorship and Historical Significance”Photo: Orna AlmogiIn 2001 an unusually fine Tibetan manuscript dating to about the 13th century appeared in the catalogue of a London dealer of antique books. The text...19 March 2016|WorkshopTibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship: Means and Methods of Research (Pilot Level 5, Introductory Levels 1 & 2)Photo: Orna AlmogiMarch 19–30, 2016. Namdroling Monastery, Mysore, South India. 7 March 2016|Editorial MeetingITLR-Editorial Retreat, 07.-12.03.2016Photo: Orna AlmogiMarch 7–12, 2016, Ammersbek, Germany Following the publication of the Beta version of the “Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource” (ITLR) in December 2015, the...14 February 2016|HackathonHack Away at Tibetan Buddhist TextsPhoto: Orna AlmogiFebruary 14–18, 2016 Kibbutz Lotan, Israel The objective of the hackathon is to develop digital tools that will facilitate the identification of...15 January 2016|KC Lecture SeriesProf. Seishi Karashima: “Who Composed the Mahāyāna Scriptures?”Photo: Orna AlmogiIn this talk, I demonstrate that the earlier composers of the so-called Mahāyāna-sūtras had named their texts vevulla / vaitulya / vaipulya (cf. Pāli...15 January 2016|ProjectsIndo-Tibetan Lexical Resource (ITLR)Photo: ITLR The ITLR is designed to serve as a digital platform for researchers from the fields of classical Indology, Tibetology, and Buddhology when dealing...15 January 2016|ProjectsgSung-rtenPhoto: gSung-rten “gSung-rten” is a collaborative research project of the Khyentse Center and is devoted to the collection, documentation, investigation, and...More articles
