Upcoming Events

Echoes from Forgotten Mountains: A Conversation about Tibetan History and Politics with Jamyang Norbu April 26, Friday, 4 pm, Hale 230. Reception to follow Join us for a conversation and book signing with critically acclaimed writer Jamyang Norbu about his just-released book – Echoes from Forgotten Mountains: Tibet in War...

Mediating Feuds and Making Minorities on the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands of Late Republican and Early Maoist China. April 11 Thursday, 6pm, GUGG 205 In early 1941, the Kuomintang dispatched a well-known scholar-official, Gao Yihan, to investigate a “grassland dispute” between two Tibetan chiefdoms on the Qinghai-Gansu border. As Gao quickly discovered,...

Towards Contemplative Fluency: Framing Tibetan Meditation Practices Wednesday, April 3, 2024, 6pm - 7:30pm Eaton Humanities 250 Meditation is an ancient human practice. Our ability to artfully cultivate attentive, imaginal, and embodied modes of consciousness, and more so, intentionally design and apply techniques to transcend ordinary experience are deeply integral...

Please join us for a lecture and new documentary film with Huatse Gyal, Rice University. Film Screening of Khata: Purity or Poison? 12:30pm on Friday, March 8 | Guggenheim 201E Please RSVP via Eventbrite , lunch provided. Limited to 15. This 45-minute film juxtaposes the sense of "purity" and good...

Please join us for a lecture by Annabella Pitkin, Lehigh University on: Feeding Asceticism: Himalayan Buddhist Renunciation, Devotion & Embodied Intimate Care 6pm on Thursday, February 22nd Humanities 250 In Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist biographies, devotion frames stories of the intimate, emotionally intense connections between gurus and disciples. By contrast,...

The Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) comes to town this weekend, September 21–23, 2023. There are two Tibet-related panels we would like to invite you to attend. Register here: https://jlflitfest.org/colorado The Tibet Himalaya Initiative (THI) is sponsoring the session with Tsering Yangzom Lama, whose debut novel We Measure the Earth with...

In 2011, the Dalai Lama stepped down as political leader of the Tibetan exile government. For the first time ever, the Tibetan community democratically elected a new political leader: Mr. Lobsang Sangay. He served two terms as Sikyong (President) from 2011-2021. As Sikyong, Mr. Sangay traveled the world on behalf...

Please join us for a guest lecture on "The Buddhist Wilderness" with Kurtis R. Schaeffer, the Francis Myer Ball Professor of Buddhist at the University of Virginia. The Buddhist Wilderness, Guest Lecture by Kurtis R. Schaeffer Humanities 250 | ​6pm on Thursday, April 13th The idea of wilderness, a natural...