Events (2014)1 January 2015|KC Lecture Series2011–2014 EVENTS ARCHIVEPhoto: KC TBTSA full list of events held by the Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship between 2011–2014.5 December 2014|WorkshopgSung-rten: Input Workshop IPhoto: Orna AlmogiDecember 5–6, 2014, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg The “gSung-rten: Input Workshop 1” (December 5–6, Universität Hamburg) is a follow-up of the...10 November 2014|KC Lecture SeriesDr. Hong Luo: “Different Transmission or different Interpretation? An investigation of LKCT 5.171-5.173a quoted in a Tibetan iconographic treatise”Photo: Orna AlmogiIn the De bzhing gshegs pa’i sku gzugs kyi tshad kyi rim pa’i don gsal bar byed pa’i gzhung lugs yid bzhin gyi nor bu (Zhol 1944; Blo bzang phun...5 September 2014|WorkshopWorkshop: “Himalayan Buddhist Textual Scholarship: Tools and Techniques of Research”Photo: Orna AlmogiSeptember 5–13, 2014, Punakha, Bhutan The Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg, has a long tradition...20 June 2014|WorkshopgSung-rten brainstorming workshopPhoto: Orna AlmogiJune 20–21, 2014, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg During the conference “Manuscript and Xylograph Traditions in the Tibetan Cultural Sphere” (May 15–18...20 May 2014|KC Lecture SeriesDr. Vincent Eltschinger: “The Yogācārabhūmi’s Systematic Critique of Vedic Ritual Violence (hiṃsā)”Photo: Orna Almogi5th- and 6th-century Buddhist “śāstric” literature reflects interesting and at times formally sophisticated debates between Buddhist intellectuals and...14 May 2014|KC Lecture SeriesSonam Kachru: “Philosophy and the Varieties of Conversation: A Commentary on the Opening Conversations in the Questions of Menander”Photo: Orna AlmogiNigel Warburton once said that philosophy without conversation can at times involve the reduction of thought to dogma. He made this point mindful of...11 May 2014|KC Lecture SeriesDr. Cuilan Liu: “Song, Dance, and Instrumental Music in Buddhist Canon Law”Photo: Orna AlmogiMaintaining a balanced approach to music is a shared challenge in all religions. Depending on the context in which music is used in religious...23 April 2014|KC Lecture SeriesProf. Roy Tzohar: “The Pan-Metaphorical View of Early Indian Yogācāra”Photo: Orna AlmogiThe paper presents an early Yogācāra theory of meaning as outlined by Sthiramati in his commentary to Vasubandhu’s Triṃśikā, in which it is argued...20 March 2014|WorkshopWorkshop: “Buddhist Textual Scholarship and Fundamentals of Academic Research”Photo: Orna AlmogiMarch 20–28, 2014, Mysore, India One of the objectives and activities of the Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship (KC-TBTS) has...5 March 2014|WorkshopComputerized Tools for Navigating Tibetan Literary CorporaPhoto: Orna AlmogiMarch 5, 2014, Beit Maimon, Tzahal St. 4, Zichron Yaakov, Israel With the increasing access to old Tibetan manuscripts and xylographs in recent...1 March 2014|Editorial Meeting“ITLR Editorial Retreat”Photo: Orna AlmogiMarch 1–10, 2014, Beit Maimon, Zichron Yaacov, Israel One of the main activities of the Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship...
