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Panel on Contemporary Bhutanese Literature at the AAS in Denver on March 22, 2019. From left to right: Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, CU alum Sonam Nyenda, Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia, Tsering Shakya (guest), Sonam Kinga, Tsering Om Tamang, and CU faculty Holly Gayley.

Keynotes for the Lotsawa Translation Workshop, Kurtis Schaeffer, Janet Gyatso, and Lama Jabb (left to right) honored at the closing lunch. The Workshop was held at CU Boulder on October 5-8, 2018 thanks to the generous support from the Tsadra Foundation.

Pema Dekyi from the Nubri Valley in Nepal, wife of musician Pema Dhondrup, featured in photo essay "Folk Songs from Nubri" by Mason Brown, CU alum in Ethnomusicology. Nubri is an ethnically Tibetan valley in Nepal’s Gorkha District, just over the border from Tibet.

Donald Lopez and Thubten Jinpa in dialogue at the opening dinner of the Tsadra "Translation and Transmission" Conference at CU Boulder, May 31st to June 3rd, 2017. THI served as a co-sponsor. Read more about the conference.

Karma Phuntsok, contemporary Tibetan artist, with CU Anthropology Professor Carole McGranahan and THI graduate students Rupak Shrestha, Marielle Butters, Dawa Lokyitsang, and Drew Zackary on Sept 1st, 2016.

Galen Murton, CU alum in Geography, published a photo essay "A Himalayan Border Trilogy: Trade and Infrastructure Development at the Nepal-China Borderlands" on his doctoral fieldwork in Nepal and Tibet.

Gonkar Gyatso (Photo courtesy of artist)

Widely considered the father of cotemporary Tibetan art, Gonkar Gyatso co-founded the Sweet Tea House artists’ collective in Lhasa in in 1984. He visited Colorado from April 4th to 10th, 2016 as part of the THI-sponsored Tibetan Arts Week.

THI celebrated the success of its inaugural semester with an Official Launch in the Koenig Alumni Center on November 11, 2015. Twenty-five graduate students, faculty, and supporters gathered for this celebration with honored guest Ringu Tulku Rinpoche.

Welcome to the Tibet Himalaya Initiative - an interdisciplinary hub for research, teaching, and public engagement on Tibet and the Himalayas - which operates under the aegis of The Center for Asian Studies. We invite guest speakers for lectures on Tibetan and Himalayan culture, religion, and society, and host visiting artists, graduate colloquia, and film screenings throughout the year.

The Center for Asian Studies currently supports THI through an Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Languages (UISFL) grant. As part of this grant, CAS offers scholarship support for Tibetan and Nepali summer language study, and supports Directed Independent Language Study in Tibetan and Nepali through the Anderson Language Technology Center (ALTEC).

Events in Spring 2018:
January 24 | Yuan Hao and Yuan Fei, Larung Buddhist Academy
March 1 | Tsering Shakya, University of British Columbia | THI & CAS
March 16 | Andrew Grant, Visiting Scholar at CU Boulder
March 19 | Tenzin Decki, Poet and Editor for Treasury of Lives | THI, CAS & Anthropology
March 21 | Gerald Roche, Asia Institute at University of Melbourne, THI & CAS

Events in Spring 2016:
February 18 | Film Screening, Mani: Hidden Valley of Happiness
February 23 | Roundtable with Members of Institute for Social and Environmental Transition
March 10 | Film Screening, Fire in the Land of Snow
April 6-10 | Tibetan Arts Week with Gonkar Gyatso and Jangbu
April 18 | Karma Jamyang Gyaltsen, Larung Buddhist Academy | Shambhala Publications
April 22 | John Osburg, University of Rochester | THI & Geography
June 23 | His Holiness the Dalai Lama | Cultural Events Board & Tibet Association

Events in Fall 2015:
September 10 | José Cabezón, Dalai Lama Chair in Buddhist Studies at UC Santa Barbara
September 30 | Panel Discussion on Social Entrepreneurship in Tibet
October 7 | Sarah Magnatta, University of Denver
October 15 | Sarah Harding, Tsadra Foundation & Naropa University | THI & CU Libraries
October 26 | Film Screening of Yartsa Rinpoche
November 3 | Christian K. Wedemeyer, University of Chicago | Religious Studies & Naropa
November 11 | THI Official Launch Event with Ringu Tulku Rinpoche

Our thanks to the Chancellor's Office for supporting the launch of the Tibet Himalaya Initiative, to the Department of Religious Studies for administering our first two years of operation, to the Center for Asian Studies for placing THI under its auspices, and to all our collaborators: the Tsadra Foundation, the Association of Nepal and Himalayan Studies, Naropa University, Shambhala Publications, the CU Libraries, the Center for the Arts and Humanities, ALTEC and more.

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