Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship: Means and Methods of Research (Level 5)

20 August 2018

Photo: Orna Almogi

August 20 – September 02, 2018, 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 fourteen-day workshop “Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship: Means and Methods of Research (Level 5)” in Dzongsar Khyentse Chokyi Lodro Institute (DKCLI), Chauntra, Himachal Pradesh, India (August 20 – September 02, 2018). The workshop, the fifth within the framework of the ARPI project funded by the Khyentse Foundation, is conceived and conducted by the KC-TBTS, and co-organized and co-funded by the KC-TBTS and the DKCLI. It will include all eighteen members of the 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). In addition, Lopens and Khenpos from Dzongsar and neighbouring monastic institutions will take part as observers.