All Announcements (2017)13 December 2017|KC Lecture SeriesProf. Stefano Zacchetti: Transmitting, Commenting, Expanding: Patterns of Textual Variation in the Tradition of the Larger PrajñāpāramitāAs is well known, when studied diachronically many Mahāyāna sutras show a marked tendency to variation. While various typologies and patterns of...13 December 2017|KC Lecture SeriesProf. Stefano Zacchetti: Transmitting, Commenting, Expanding: Patterns of Textual Variation in the Tradition of the Larger PrajñāpāramitāPhoto: Orna AlmogiAs is well known, when studied diachronically many Mahāyāna sutras show a marked tendency to variation. While various typologies and patterns of...6 December 2017|KC Lecture SeriesDr. habil. Agata Bareja-Starzynska: On Abhidharma Literature in MongolianWith the dissemination of Buddhism among Mongols also Abhidharma literature was transmitted in the Mongolian language. Mongols started to practice...6 December 2017|KC Lecture SeriesDr. habil. Agata Bareja-Starzynska: On Abhidharma Literature in MongolianPhoto: Orna AlmogiWith the dissemination of Buddhism among Mongols also Abhidharma literature was transmitted in the Mongolian language. Mongols started to practice...8 November 2017|KC Lecture SeriesDr. Christopher V. Jones: Reevaluating the Buddha-Nature Idea in IndiaThe tathāgatagarbha literature of the Indian Mahāyāna is unconventional for a number of reasons. At their most radical, texts of this tradition...8 November 2017|KC Lecture SeriesDr. Christopher V. Jones: Reevaluating the Buddha-Nature Idea in IndiaPhoto: Orna AlmogiThe tathāgatagarbha literature of the Indian Mahāyāna is unconventional for a number of reasons. At their most radical, texts of this tradition...3 October 2017|WorkshopWorkshop: ITLR Input WorkshopPhoto: Orna AlmogiOctober 3d, 2017, Tsukuba University, Japan Within the framework of the ongoing collaboration with Tsukuba University, one-day ITLR Input Workshop...19 September 2017|AnnouncementRelease of an updated Beta Version of the ITLR – Indo-Tibetan Lexical ResourceWe are pleased to announce the release of an updated online Beta version of the Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource (ITLR). The Beta version currently...16 September 2017|Editorial MeetingWorkshop: ITLR Input Workshop & Editorial RetreatPhoto: Orna AlmogiSeptember 16–19, 2017, International Institute for Digital Humanities (DHII), Tokyo The Khyentse Center is organizing and conducting its next ITLR...23 July 2017|ConferenceConference: Birds as Ornithologists: Scholarship between Faith and ReasonPhoto: Orna AlmogiJuly 23–25, 2017, Namdroling Monastery, South India In 2015 the Khyentse Center launched the “Academic Research Program Initiative” (ARPI), a project...22 July 2017|WorkshopWorkshop: Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship: Means and Methods of ResearchPhoto: Orna AlmogiJuly 22–August 03, 2017, Namdroling Monastery, South India As a part of the ARPI project—aiming at fostering research activities in the Himalayan...12 July 2017|KC Lecture SeriesWhen Buddhists are Enemies: A Sketch of the Debate on the Different Ways of Salvation in Tantric BuddhismThe debate between the Madhyamaka and Yogācāra traditions continues and deepens with the flourishing of the various Tantric currents. In an almost...12 July 2017|KC Lecture SeriesProf. Francesco Sferra: When Buddhists are Enemies: A Sketch of the Debate on the Different Ways of Salvation in Tantric BuddhismPhoto: Orna AlmogiThe debate between the Madhyamaka and Yogācāra traditions continues and deepens with the flourishing of the various Tantric currents. In an almost...12 July 2017|AnnouncementKhyentse Foundation Award for Excellence in Buddhist Studies 2016 & Khyentse Foundation Award for Outstanding PhD Dissertation in Buddhist Studies, Europe, 2017The ceremony of the two awards will be hosted by the Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg. The...24 May 2017|KC Lecture SeriesProf. Donatella Rossi: An Exegetical Analysis of The Essential Exposition on the View (lTa ba stong thun): A Bon-po Rediscovered Text from the rDzogs pa chen po yang rtse klong chen Cycle (ca. 11th Century)The rDzogs pa chen po yang rtse klong chen, together with the A Khrid and the Zhang zhung snyan rgyud cycles, epitomize, by virtue of the relevant...More articles
