2011–2014 Events Archive

1 January 2015

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A full list of events held by the Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship between 2011–2014.

• 5 December 2014
  gSung-rten: Input Workshop I
• 10 November 2014
  Dr. Hong Luo: “Different Transmission or different Interpretation? An investigation of LKCT 5.171-5.173a quoted in a Tibetan iconographic treatise” joint event of the Centre for Tantric Studies and the Khyentse Center
• 11 May 2014
  Dr. Cuilan Liu: “Song, Dance, and Instrumental Music in Buddhist Canon Law”
• 5 September 2014
  Workshop: “Himalayan Buddhist Textual Scholarship: Tools and Techniques of Research”
• 20 June 2014
  gSung-rten brainstorming workshop
• 20 May 2014
  Dr. Vincent Eltschinger: “The Yogācārabhūmi’s Systematic Critique of Vedic Ritual Violence (hiṃsā)”
• 14 May 2014
  Sonam Kachru: “Philosophy and the Varieties of Conversation: A Commentary on the Opening Conversations in the Questions of Menander”
• 23 April 2014
  Prof. Roy Tzohar: “The Pan-Metaphorical View of Early Indian Yogācāra”
• 20 March 2014
  Workshop: “Buddhist Textual Scholarship and Fundamentals of Academic Research”
• 5 March 2014
  Computerized Tools for Navigating Tibetan Literary Corpora
• 1 March 2014
  “ITLR Editorial Retreat”
• 8 November 2013
  Prof. Per Soerensen: “Old Chang in New Bottles: New Light on the Tibetan Narrative of the Emanational Lineage of Avalokiteśvara”
• 8 July 2013
  Prof. Meir & Prof. Wangchuk: “Dialogical Thoughts in Jewish and Buddhist Philosophies”
• 3 July 2013
  Dr. Ulrich Pagel: “Buddhist Monks in Tax Disputes: Monastic Attitudes towards Revenue Collection”
• 12 June 2013
  Dr. Brandon Dotson: “On the Paleography and Orthography of Early Tibetan Writing”
• 15 May 2013
  Conference on “Manuscript and Xylograph Traditions in the Tibetan Cultural Sphere: Regional and Periodical Characteristics”
• 19 December 2012
  Petra Maurer: “Time and space and their relevance for construction”
• 17 October 2012
  Dr. Jan-Ulrich Sobisch: “Die vier tantrischen tshad ma der Sa-skya und ’Bri-gung Traditionen: Tibetische Vorstellungen von Authentizität”
• 23 July 2012
  Symposium on “Cross-Cultural Transmission of Buddhist Texts: Theories and Practices of Translation”
• 22 June 2012
  Prof. Dorji Wangchuk: “The Buddhist Ontology of Mereism”
• 12 June 2012
  Dr. Agnieszka Helman-Ważny: “Tibetan Books - A History of Craft and Artistry”
• 12 June 2012
  Dr. Agnieszka Helman-Ważny: “Tibetan Print and Papermaking Technologies”
• 9 May 2012
  Prof. Seishi Karashima: “On Avalokitasvara and Avalokiteśvara”
• 8 May 2012
  Prof. Seishi Karashima: “Vehicle (yāna) and Wisdom (jñāna) in the Lotus Sutra—the Origin of the Notion of yāna in Mahāyāna Buddhism”
• 25 January 2012
  Dr. Karma Phuntsho: “From Poti to Pixel: Documenting Bhutan’s Textual Heritage”
• 11 January 2012
  Dr. Kurt Tropper: “Sūtra-Inschriften im westlichen Himalaya”
• 23 December 2011
  Fourth ITLR Workshop “Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource (ITLR): Experimentation and Implementation II”
• 21 December 2011
  Prof. Dorji Wangchuk: “Tibetan Textual Culture: Driving Forces Behind the Production, Dissemination, and Transmission of Texts”
• 30 November 2011
  Prof. Peter Schwieger: “Tibetische Texte ganz anderer Art - und was sie uns über die Geschichte verraten”
• 16 November 2011
  Prof. Charles Ramble: “Recent Textual Discoveries in the Caves of Mustang, Nepal”
• 26 October 2011
  Prof. Franz-Karl Ehrhard: “Der Königliche Blockdruck des Maṇi bka’ ’bum: Neue Funde”
• 19 July 2011
  Third ITLR Workshop “Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource (ITLR): Experimentation and Implementation I”
• 12 July 2011
  2011-07-12 Dr. Giuliana Martini: “The bodhisattva path in the early Buddhism of Khotan”
• 27 April 2011
  2011-04-27 Jeff Wallman: “Full Text, Literary Ontologies & Scanned Source”