Upcoming Events

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...

Join us for an extraordinary event, a book reading and dialogue with Tsering Yangzom Lama about her award-winning debut novel, We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies. When: Thursday, March 2 5:30 Reception, Meet the Author | 6pm Book Reading and Dialogue Where: Chancellor’s Auditorium CASE Building 4th Floor 725...

ལོ་སར་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ།། You are cordially invited to celebrate the new year of the water rabbit in the 2150th year of the Tibetan calender. Date: February 24th, 2023 Location: ALTEC, Hellems Room 159 Time: 5:00pm - 7:00pm Light snacks and entertainment provided.

Tukdam: Between Worlds, is a brand new feature documentary that explores the phenomenon of tukdam, where deceased mediators show no signs of death for days and weeks. Synopsis We tend to think of death as something clear-cut, and that medical science has it neatly figured out. This feature documentary explodes...

Join us for an evening of contemporary Tibetan poetry and short stories with Tibetan women writers from India and China. EMERGING VOICES: Tibetan Women Writers Thursday, April 21st at 5pm | CU Boulder, Humanities 250 Introduction by Nicole Willock, author of Lineages of the Literary. Readings by Tibetan writers Tsedron...

Searching for Grass and Water: Nomads of the Tibetan Plateau and Himalaya Please join us for the opening reception of Daniel Miller’s exhibition and talk on 'Searching for Grass and Water: Nomads of the Tibetan Plateau and Himalaya' in Norlin Library’s Underground West Gallery hosted by the University Libraries in...

On March 4, 2022, the University of Colorado celebrated Tibetan Losar for the first time on campus. Losar, the Tibetan New Year, is celebrated across the Tibetan plateau and in the Himalayan regions of Nepal, India, and Bhutan. This cultural program was jointly organized by the Center for Asian Studies...

Join us for an in-person talk by Paljor Tsarong on his recently completed book titled, The Life and Times of George Tsarong of Tibet, 1920-1970: A Lord in the Traditional Tibetan State (Lexington Press). Masks required to attend the lecture in person. Thursday, November 18 | 4 pm MT |...

We are delighted to welcome Dominique Townsend (Bard College) for a guest lecture on her new book, A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery (Columbia University Press, 2021). Her lecture, "Renouncing Attachment, Embracing Aesthetics: Cultural Production in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery,” will reflect on the question of how...

Join us for the book launch of Voices from Larung Gar: Shaping Tibetan Buddhism for the Twenty-First Century . The 2.5 hour symposium features Anam Thubten and David Germano in dialogue about Larung Gar, one of the largest Buddhist institution on the Tibetan plateau. This will be followed by a...