News & Events (2015)20 July 2015|WorkshopWorkshop: Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship: Means and Methods of ResearchPhoto: Orna AlmogiJuly 20–29, 2015, Namdroling Monastery, South India As a part of its ongoing and persistent efforts to foster research activities in the Himalayan...17 June 2015|KC Lecture SeriesProf. Harunaga Isaacson: “Some Observations on Indian Buddhist Textual Scholarship, With Particular Reference to Commentaries on Tantras”Photo: Orna AlmogiThis talk will consider textual scholarship in the Indian Buddhist traditions, in particular the traditions of Tantric exegesis. It will present some...7 May 2015|WorkshopScripts, Manuscripts, and Xyloscripts: Old and New Approaches to Tibetan Palaeography and CodicologyPhoto: Orna AlmogiMay 7–9, 2015, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg Tibetan palaeography, codicology, and philology, all of which are parts of “ textual scholarship,” become...15 April 2015|KC Lecture SeriesDr. Ligeia Lugli: “A Fork in the Middle Path: Empty Words and Mahāyāna Hermeneutics in the Bodhisattvabhūmi”Photo: Orna AlmogiIf intellectual historians could dream up their ideal object of study, they would dream up the Bodhisattvabhūmi. Placed at the confluence of...28 January 2015|KC Lecture SeriesDr. Vincent Tournier: “How the Śākya sage became a Buddhist monk? Remarks on Self-ordination in Vinaya literature”Photo: Orna Almogi This presentation will explore the status of the Buddha as the first fully ordained monk, as it emerges from Vinaya scriptures. In fact, while this...21 January 2015|KC Lecture SeriesProf. Giacomella Orofino: “Observations on a Theogonic Myth Found in a Tibetan Magical Ritual”Photo: Orna AlmogiIn the religious literature of the Tibetan Bon tradition we find very interesting theogonic or cosmogonic narratives, mythical accounts, apotropaic...14 January 2015|KC Lecture SeriesProf. Shen Weirong: “A Recently Discovered Early Chinese Biography of dPal ldan bkra shis (14th to 15th Cent), A Tibetan Lama from Amdo: New Perspectives on the Interaction between Ming China and Tibet”Photo: Orna AlmogiRecently an early Ming Chinese translation of the biography of dPal ldan bkra shis, a Tibetan lama from Amdo who lived in the 14th to 15th centuries...
