Workshop: “Buddhist Textual Scholarship and Fundamentals of Academic Research”
20 March 2014
Photo: Orna Almogi
March 20–28, 2014, Mysore, India
One of the objectives and activities of the Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship (KC-TBTS) has been to train young scholars from the target regions (Tibet/China, India, Nepal, and Bhutan), including scholars with traditional/monastic background. The aim of these activities is to introduce them to methods of modern research in the field of Tibetan Buddhist textual studies and impart to them the skills of employing historical-philological tools and techniques, on the one hand, and to increase collaboration between traditional and modern scholars within the domain of the academic study of Buddhism, on the other. As one of the many concrete steps towards realizing this particular objective, the KC-TBTS, organizes and conducts workshops in the target regions. Following a successful workshop in Bhutan in August 2013, the KC-TBTS, in collaboration with the newly founded Ngagyur Nyingma Research Centre (NNRC)—the sNga-’gyur-nyams-zhib-lte-gnas-khang—of rNam-grol-gling Monastery, is co-funding and co-organizing a nine-day workshop on “Buddhist Textual Scholarship and Fundamentals of Academic Research” (March 20–28, 2014) at the Ngagyur Nyingma Institute, rNam-grol-gling Monastery (Bylakuppe, Mysore District, Karnataka State, India). While the workshop is aimed at providing training to the first batch of the five research students (nyams zhib slob ma) of the NNRC within the framework of its modern research program, a number of participants from other Tibetan Buddhist monastic seminaries in India, Nepal, and Bhutan affiliated with different schools of Tibetan Buddhism will participate in the workshop. The workshop will be conducted jointly by Dorji Wangchuk, Orna Almogi, and Rebecca Hufen from the University of Hamburg.
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