Workshop: Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship: Means and Methods of Research

20 July 2015

July 20–29, 2015, Namdroling Monastery, South India

As a part of its ongoing and persistent efforts to foster research activities in the Himalayan Buddhist monastic seminaries and to develop collaborative research projects between the monastic research centers and the Western academia, the Khyentse Center will conduct a nine-day training workshop “Himalayan Buddhist Textual Scholarship: Means and Methods of Research (Levels 1, 2 & 3)” (July 20–30, 2015, Mysore). The workshop, the fourth of its kind conducted thus far, is co-organized and co-funded by the KC-TBTS and the Ngagyur Nyingma Research Centre (NNRC), and conducted by four members of the KC-TBTS. The workshop, which will be the first to take place within the framework of the Academic Research Program Initiative (ARPI) project funded by the Khyentse Foundation. It will be hosted by the NNRC, Mysore, and include participants from several monastic seminaries from South Asia, including Dzongsar (Chauntra Town, India), Zhechen (Kathmandu, Nepal), the Monastic Body of Bhutan, Gangteng (Bhutan), Institute of Language and Culture Studies (Trongsa, Bhutan), Payul Chokhorling (Bir, India), Mindroling (Clement Town, India), NNI and NNRC (Mysore, India).

• For more information, please see the project page of the the ARPI Project