Workshop: Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship: Means and Methods of Research (Level 1)

18 September 2016

September 18–27, 2016, Dzongsar Monastery, India

As a part of the ARPI project—aiming at fostering research activities in the Himalayan Buddhist monastic seminaries and developing collaborative research projects between monastic research centers and the Western academia—the Khyentse Center will conduct a ten-day workshop “Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship: Means and Methods of Research (Level 1)” in Dzongsar Khyentse Chokyi Lodro Institute (DKCLI), Chauntra, Himachal Pradesh, India (September 18–27, 2016). The workshop, the fifth of its kind conducted thus far, and the second within the framework of the ARPI project funded by the Khyentse Foundation, is organized and conducted by the KC-TBTS, and co-funded by the KC-TBTS and the DKCLI. It will include participants from several monastic seminaries and research centers from South Asia, including Dzongsar Institute (Chauntra), Ngagyur Nyingma Institute (Mysore), Shechen monastery (Kathmandu), and Central Institute for Buddhist Studies (Leh), alongside several individuals from Drikung monastery (Dehradun), Sakya College (Dehradun), Drepung Loseling (Mundgod), and Payul Chokorling (Bir).