Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship: Means and Methods of Research (ARPI-I level 8 & ARPI-II level 1)

28 February 2020

Originally it was planned for February 28–March 19, 2020, Shechen Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal. Due to the coronavirus outbreak, conducted in three small groups in Shechen (Kathmandu, Nepal), Dzongsar (Chauntra, India), Namdroling (Mysore, India) in an abridged form.

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 the workshop “Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship: Means and Methods of Research (ARPI-I level 8 & ARPI-II level 1)” in Shechen Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal (February 28–March 19, 2020). The workshop, the eighth 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 current ARPI members, including the pilots and ARPI-I, and the newly joint ARPI-II members, 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 neighboring monastic institutions will take part as observer.

Due to the coronavirus outbreak, conducted in three small groups in Shechen (Kathmandu, Nepal), Dzongsar (Chauntra, India), Namdroling (Mysore, India) in an abridged form.