Workshop: Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship: Means and Methods of Research (Level 6)

4 March 2019

March 4 – 17, 2019, Shechen Monastery, Nepal

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 6)” in Shechen Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal (March 4–17, 2019). The workshop, the sixth 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 Shechen Monastery. It will include all fourteen 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 neighbouring monastic institutions will take part as observers.