Events (2016)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...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...