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

22 July 2017

July 22–August 03, 2017, Namdroling Monastery, South 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 two-week workshop “Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship: Means and Methods of Research (Level 3)” in Namdroling Monastery, South India (July 22–August 3, 2017). The workshop, the seventh of its kind conducted thus far, and the fourth within the framework of the ARPI project funded by the Khyentse Foundation, is organized and conducted by the KC-TBTS, and hosted by Ngagyur Nyingma Institute (NNI), Namdroling monastery. It will include all participants eighteen ARPI project from three research centers at monastic seminaries from South Asia, including Chökyi Lodrö Research Center (CLRC) at Dzongsar Institute (Chauntra), Ngagyur Nyingma Research Center (NNRC) at Namdroling (Mysore), and Shechen Research Division (SRD) at Shechen monastery (Kathmandu). This time the workshop included, for the first time, a 3-day international conference “Birds as Ornithologists: Scholarship between Faith and Reason” (July 23–25).