In Tibet, various forms of divination persist both within and alongside the Buddhist and Bon religions. Excavated divination texts from Dunhuang and from other Silk Road sites furnish us with traces of the dynamic processes by which Buddhism absorbed various divination techniques practiced in 8th to 10th centuries. This lecture will introduce an early form of Tibetan dice divination involving intimate exchanges with gods and with goddesses (sman), and will consider how Buddhism variously transformed, absorbed, and transmitted such divination practices up to the present day.
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David F. Germano is Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia, the largest Tibetan Studies program in the Americas, where he has taught and researched since 1992. He serves as the Director for a number of centers and initiatives at the University of Virginia, including: the Tibet Center (www.uvatibetcenter.org), the Contemplative Sciences Center (www.uvacontemplation.org), and director of SHANTI (Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts Network of Technological Initiatives, www.shanti.virginia.edu). He also is the founder and director of the Tibetan and Himalayan Library (THL, www.thlib.org), the largest international initiative using digital technology to facilitate collaboration in Tibetan Studies across disciplines.
On 17 November at 6 pm in the Simon Bolivar-Saal (Potsdamer Straße 33, 10785 Berlin), Dr. Diana Lange will give a lecture entitled Putting Tibet on the Map: A Journey Through Different Mapping Practices, she will give an insight into her current research project Maps as Knowledge Resources and Mapmaking as Process: The Case of the Mapping of Tibet. The lecture will be held in English. If you are in the area we hope you can join us in person. In this case, please register at ostasienabt@sbb.spk-berlin.de.The lecture will also be streamed and filmed.*
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After the lecture, a link to the video recording of the lecture will be sent to registrants. This makes the lecture possible for those whose time zone makes live attendance difficult, as well as those who wish to review the lecture that they attended.
The monks of the Drepung Loseling Monastery will return to UNC Asheville Oct.22-26 for a residency that includes creating a sand mandala, lectures on Tibetan culture, traditions and beliefs, and a sacred music and dance performance. All residency activities are open to everyone free of charge except for the Oct. 25 concert, which is a ticketed event. The full schedule, and a link to concert tickets is provided below.
The University of Oregon and the Eugene Sakya Center (Nyen-Gyud Samten Choeling for Tibetan Buddhist Studies) will be welcoming His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, to the University of Oregon campus for a public lecture on Friday, May 10 at 1:30 p.m. (full story)
How do Buddhists perceive reality not only over life times, but also indeed from moment to moment in their existence? How are beings bound to endless cycles of life, death and rebirth? How do practitioners relate to the message of this image and use it as daily inspiration and guide. This lecture will shed light onto this extraordinary image, displayed outside temples and monasteries to remind visitors to the sacred site of their purpose and reasons for entering.
KALAMAZOO -- The deputy director of the Chinese Academy of Science's Institute of Geographical Sciences will be on the Western Michigan University campus this month to lecture about economic development and environmental management in Tibet.
Dr. Cheng, Sheng-Kui will present, "Natural Resources Management and Sustainable Development of Tibet" at noon Wednesday, April 16, in Room 1718 of Wood Hall. The lecture is part of WMU's Visiting Scholars and Artists Program and is free and open to the public.
"The lecture will be a great opportunity for the public to learn more about Tibet, as well as the policies of the Chinese government toward the development of the area," says Dr. Chansheng He, associate professor of geography and coordinator of Sheng-Kui's visit. "Dr. Cheng has spent over 12 years doing research in Tibet, and his animated presentation will include first-hand pictures and field information about the people and environment."
NORTHAMPTON, Mass.-Dr. Phuntsog Wangmo, a physician from Tibet, will present a two-part lecture series at Smith College on the revival of traditional Tibetan medicine on Nov. 13 and 14. The presentations are free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible.
The first lecture, titled "Dr. Phuntsog Wangmo: A Tibetan Woman Doctor's Narratives on Life and Work in Rural Northeast Tibet," will take place in Neilson Library Browsing Room at 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 13. The following day, Wangmo will discuss "The Relationship Between Tibetan Medicine and Tibetan Astrology," at the same time and location.
"Dr. Wangmo is part of a revival of traditional Tibetan medicine inside Tibet. She was personally trained by two of Tibet's greatest doctors," said Jacqueline Glens, a 1981 Smith graduate who is helping to coordinate the lectures.
On April 9, the fourth Dawa Norbu memorial lecture was given by Tsering Shakya, Tibetan historian as the main speaker, and Professor Yeshi Choedon of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Around fifty students of Jawaharlal Nehru University and Delhi University attended the lecture.
Before becoming abbess of the nunnery, Drolma was a sculptor and professor of art for more than 10 years at Maine College of Art.In her slide lecture, Drolma will discuss her evolution as an artist and Tibetan Buddhist nun.
In 2002, she was invited to go to India to create a statue of an historic Tibetan king, Songtsen Gonpo. While in India, she was asked to supervise the art created for the Songtsen Library, an international library in India specializing in preserving the culture of the Himalayas. Her slide lecture will feature these Tibetan and Himalayan works of art.
As a leading scholar in the field of Chinese-American relations in the 20th century and East Asian international history, Liu has published several books in the Cambridge University Press and Stanford University Press about China's ethnic-frontier affairs in international politics. His lecture, "Time, Space, and China's Tibetan Frontier in the 20th Century," is based on his current research about the Tibetan-Chinese relationship during the Cold War and how that relationship has been perceived and interpreted in the West.
Liu's lecture is one of the many events featured in UWRF's Year of China program, a program that is part of the global initiative of the university's strategic plan and an effort to apply a multidisciplinary approach to better understand and appreciate the cultures of different nations in the world, such as Germany, China, Mexico and Brazil.
A Chinese delegation on a Tibetan cultural exchange visit concluded its two-day stay in Vienna on Tuesday. The visit was aimed at promoting a better understanding of Tibet and its history through lectures and dialogue.
Hao Shiyuan, an academy member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and head of the delegation, gave a lecture on Tibetan culture and Tibetan Buddhism at Vienna University during the first day of the visit.
"I learned for the first time that there are radio and TV broadcasts, newspapers, and even mobile phone apps, available in Tibetan languages," said Rudolf Schneider of the university, adding that this form of lecture and direct exchanges with scholars from China would help eliminate biases among some Westerners.
At his lecture last month at the Latse Library in New York City, Dr. Nida Chenagtsang, Director of the Ngak-Mang Institute (NMI) in Tibet, clearly enjoyed telling listeners that "Tibetan women are recognized as one the largest contributors to the Ngakpa tradition. . . Highest spiritual realization can be achieved by both men and women." Nida referred to this as "equal realization," and examined a host of other liberal beliefs and practices that typify the unique Buddhist tradition known as "Ngakpa." 2ff7e9595c
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