THI News

On Thursday March 9, the Tibet Himalaya Initiative held a film screening of Donagh Coleman’s new film, Tukdam: Between Worlds , in the Chancellor’s auditorium. The event, which was co-sponsored by the Rene Crown Wellness Institute, was very successful, with roughly 150 people in attendance. The audience included not only...

On February 24 th , 2023, the University of Colorado Boulder ushered in the new Tibetan year of the Water Hare with Losar celebrations. Losar (ལོ་གསར་) meaning New Year in Tibetan is celebrated widely across the Tibetan Plateau and in the Himalayan regions of Nepal, India, and Bhutan. Taking place...

The Tibet Himalaya Initiative was honored to host a lunch symposium with Tibetan women writers Tsedron Kyi, Nyima Tso, and Min Nangzey at Koenig Alumni Center on April 22nd. These writers are prominent women's voices in the Tibetan literary scene, both on the plateau and in the diaspora. The lunch...

On Wednesday April 13, the Tibet Himalaya Initiative, partnering with the CU Libraries, hosted a lecture by photographer and author Daniel Miller, “The World of Tibetan Nomads, ‘Drokpa.’” Held in the Center for British Studies, the talk was attended by about 80 participants, including many undergraduate and graduate students, faculty...

Thanks to all who attended the Kayden Translation Symposium on "Buddhist Women and the Literary in Tibet" on Friday, October 22 at the Koenig Alumni Center. It was a beautiful autumn day to sit together as Tibetan Studies faculty, visiting scholars, graduate students, and area translators to discuss translations of...

Announcing the inauguration of the International Journal for Bhutan & Himalayan Research (IJBHR). The journal was launched by CU Boulder alumnus Sonam Nyenda (MA in Religious Studies, 2015), now serving on the faculty at the College for Language and Cultural Studies (CLSC) in Takse, Bhutan. It is an outgrowth of...

The Center for Asian Studies has received a grant from the U. S. Department of Education's Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Languages (UISFL) program for AYs 20-23, which will allow the center to further develop offerings in Tibetan and Himalayan studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. The grant has...

Congrats to Selma ("Sam") Sonntag on this new volume, co-edited with Mark Turin! The book is open access and is available for free here . This highly original and timely collection brings together case studies from salient areas of the Himalayan region to explore the politics of language contact. Promoting...

Inseparable Across Lifetimes , a new book of translations by Holly Gayley, faculty in Religious Studies, has just been released by Snow Lion Publications. This is first translation into English of a unique literary archive, namely the biographies and correspondence of the Tibetan visionaries Namtrul Rinpoche and Khandro Tāre Lhamo...

Over the long weekend of October 5-8, the Tibet-Himalaya Initiative had the honor of hosting the first Lotsawa Translation Workshop at the University of Colorado Boulder. Made possible through the generous support of the Tsadra Foundation, the Lotsawa Workshop drew fifty-five scholars and translators from across the country and around...