Upcoming Events

Dr. Sonam Kinga will be presenting a lecture on "Political Contests & Moral Battles: A Perspective on Bhutan's Democratic Transition" on Wednesday, March 20th at 5pm in the British Studies Library, 5th floor of Norlin Library. The Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan is a decade into its transition to democracy. As...

Lama Jabb (Oxford University) will deliver the keynote lecture for the Lotsawa Translation Workshop on “An Act of Bardo: Translating Tibetan Poetry” at 11am on Saturday, October 6, 2018 in the British Studies Room, 5 th Floor of Norlin Library on the CU Boulder campus. The lecture explores how the...

We are please to announce the first Lotsawa Translation Workshop, scheduled for October 5-8th at the University of Colorado Boulder, with the generous support of the Tsadra Foundation. The workshop offers the opportunity for translators and scholars at various stages in their careers to work together on translation in a...

Beyond Resistance: Tibetans and ethnic minority place-making in the contemporary Chinese City As part of China’s continued transformation into an urban society, the contemporary Tibetan Plateau is becoming increasingly urbanized. This poses difficulties for Tibetans who face futures in cities that are overwhelmingly Han Chinese in terms of language, legal...

New Views on Tibet's Linguistic Diversity Research on Tibet’s linguistic diversity in the West dates back to at least the mid-nineteenth century. However, a surge in descriptive and documentary linguistics in the twenty-first century has radically altered our understanding of Tibet’s rich and complex linguistic ecology. This presentation will provide...

Tenzin Dickie is a poet, writer and translator. Her work has appeared in Cultural Anthropology, The Washington Post online, Words Without Borders and Modern Poetry in Translation , among other places, and are forthcoming in The Tibet Reader by Duke University Press and Modern English Poetry by Younger Indians from...

Ethnopolitics and the Chinese City: Urbanizing Tibetans during the era of Commodity Housing This talk explores how China's urbanization program is recasting the politics of place in the largest city on the Tibetan Plateau, Xining. Urban development discourse and practice is transforming increasing numbers of China’s ethnic population into de-ethnicized...

Tsering Shakya will visit CU Boulder to deliver a lecture titled "From Remote to Visiable: The 13th Dalai Lama and the Transition to Modernity in Tibet". Dr. Shakya holds the Canadian Research Chair in Religion and Contemporary Society in Asia at the Institute for Asian Research, University of British Columbia...

Please join us for a talk with Yuan Hao and Yuan Fei, Bhuddist nuns who studied at Larung Gar Buddhist Academy (བླ་རུང་ལྔ་རིག་ནང་བསྟན་སློབ་གླིང་།) with Khenpo Sodargye Rinpoche. They will share their experiences at Larung Gar, from decisions to attend, daily life and program of study, to how Buddhist education is organized,...

Please join us as Dorje Dolma talks about her new book Yak Girl: Growing Up in the Remote Dolpo Region of Nepal ! Wednesday, January 31, 2018; 5 p.m. Humanities 250 Dorje Dolma was born in the remote Dolpo region of Nepal, high in the mountains bordering Tibet. She was...