“My Son Tenzin” Film Screening Followed by Q&A with Director/Producer Tashi Wangchuk
Minor Hall 125 Minor Hall, Charlottesville, VA, United StatesAs part of the Institute of World Languages (IWL) Spring Film Series at UVA, there will be a free screening of the new film "My Son Tenzin" followed by a Q&A with Director/Producer Tashi Wangchuk. The film is in Tibetan with English subtitles. About the film: A monk from Tibet arrives in Oakland, California on an unlikely mission: to […]
Talk by Wang Tingyu
Nau Hall 1540 Jefferson Park Avenue, Charlottesville, VA, United StatesWitchcraft, Ritualized Language, and War: Language Performance as an Borderland Interaction from the Archives of the Two Jinchuan Campaigns Contemporary discussions of rGyalrong Tibetans in Northwest Sichuan usually fall into debates regarding ethnicity, religion, and cultural authenticity. All of these approaches constitute attempts to draw boundaries between rGyalrong and others so that rGyalrong Tibetans may be defined […]
Lecture by Nicole Willock
Monroe Hall 122Lineages of the Literary: Religious Repertoires & the Cultural Revolution In the aftermath of 20 years of socio-political repression, “the Three Great Scholars after the Cultural Revolution”—Tséten Zhapdrung (1910-1985), Dungkar Lozang Trinlé (1927-1997), and Mugé Samten (1914-1993)—emerged as university professors and Buddhist leaders to ensure the survival and continuation of Tibetan literary culture in China. […]
Lecture by Brandon Dotson
Monroe Hall 110Bundles of scrolls from the Stein Collection, courtesy Brandon Dotson. A Strange Gift & Its Stranger Beneficiaries: 1,650 Sutras Copied for the Tibetan Emperor Conserved in the Stein Collection of the British Library In 826 over one hundred mostly Chinese scribes and editors in Dunhuang’s temple scriptoria were ordered to produce thousands of copies […]
Lecture by Gerald Roche: New Views of Tibetan Linguistic Diversity
Nau Hall 342 1540 Jefferson Park Avenue, Charlottesville, VA, United StatesResearch on Tibetan 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 the rich and complex linguistic ecology in Tibetan areas. This presentation will provide an overview of this emerging picture of the region […]
Contemporary Artist Gonkar Gyatso–Buddha’s Picnic: Shrines in Contemporary Tibet
Nau Hall 101 1540 Jefferson Park Avenue, Charlottesville, VA, United StatesGonkar Gyatso will share insight on his installation “Buddha’s Picnic,” which is currently on view at Washington andLee’s Staniar Gallery. In his words, the work is “a material and experiential journey into the modern practice of constructing temporary shrines, reflecting the infusion of pop and material culture from China and the West into countryside shrines throughout […]
Traditional Buddhist Knowledge & Tibetan Secular Education in China: A Conversation with a Leading Tibetan Educator, Ven. Dong Yonden Gyatso
Monroe Hall 116This conversation between Ven. Dong Yonden Gyatso and Professor David Germano will explore how Dong YondenGyatso adopts Buddhist teachings and Tibetan traditional knowledge for the secular schooling of younger generations of Tibetans. Their discussion will focus on the Tibetan experience of creating culturally relevant education that can cultivate confidence and competencies among rural minority school […]
Lecture by John Ardussi
Rouss Hall University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United StatesSecular and Political Mural Art from Himalayan Lands: Sikkim, Nepal, and Bhutan Students of Himalayan cultures will be familiar with the many forms of Buddhist and Hindu art, whose primary focus is the portrayal of saints, deities and meditative objects such as the mandala. In recent decades, influenced by modernity and globalizing culture, there have arisen […]
Lecture by Karma Phuntsho
Nau Hall 342 1540 Jefferson Park Avenue, Charlottesville, VA, United StatesPhoto of Karma Phuntsho by Matthieu Ricard. From Oral to Audio-Visual: Cultural Documentation and Changes in Bhutan Renowned historian and scholar of Bhutan Karma Phuntsho will present results and insights from a five-year-long cultural documentation project funded by the Arcadia Fund. Conducted in Bhutan in partnership with the University of Virginia, Karma has overseen a team […]
Buddhist Murals in the Caves of Ngari, Western Tibet
Rouss Hall University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United StatesA Lecture by Zhang Changhong (Palace Museum, Beijing) This event is part of the UVA East Asia Center Spring Lecture Series. Photo courtesy of Zhang Changhong. In the past decades, many Buddhist caves with exquisite murals have been found in Ngari, TAR, China which reflect the revival and flourishing of Buddhism in the remote western […]
UVA Tibet Day 2018
Minor Hall 125 Minor Hall, Charlottesville, VA, United StatesTibet Day Poster Enjoy refreshments while you discover Tibetan language and culture, and the 40 year history of Tibetan studies at UVA. Try on a chuba (traditional Tibetan clothing), learn to write your name in Tibetan, and meet the local Tibetan community as they share Tibetan culture. Scholars of Tibet will share opportunities for classroom […]
Dr. Michelle Sorensen on the Chöd Tradition
Nau Hall 342 1540 Jefferson Park Avenue, Charlottesville, VA, United StatesEuhemerism and Feminism in the Transmission of the Tibetan Buddhist Chöd Tradition Machik Labdrön (1055-1153), 19th c. thangka, Rubin Museum of Art In this talk, I will discuss my textual and ethnographic research on the transmission of Tibetan Buddhist Chöd from the eleventh through the twenty-first centuries. Chöd is a philosophy and practice developed by […]
Geshe Gedun Sherab on Tibetan Buddhist Retreat: A Conversation with David DiValerio
Rouss Hall University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United StatesLocation: Rouss Hall 403 In conversation with David DiValerio, Geshe Gedun Sherab will share his unique experiences on the rigors and rewards of traditional Tibetan Buddhist retreat. An accomplished meditator, Geshe Gedun Sherab has undertaken numerous long-term retreats in a number of sacred sites in East and South Asia. Geshe Gedun Sherab began his studies of […]
Tri Yungdrung on Bönpo Dzokchen
Nau Hall 342 1540 Jefferson Park Avenue, Charlottesville, VA, United Statesབོན་ལུགས་རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་བྱུང་རིམ་དང་དེའི་ལྟ་བའི་ཁྱད་ཆོས་བརྗོད་པ། On the Origins and Philosophical Expressions of Bönpo Dzokchen Geshe Yungdrung Tenzin Gyamtso, aka Tri Yungdrung will be discussing the historical and mythical origins as well as doctrinal foundations of the Bön Dzokchen meditative system. Geshe will consider the unique Dzokchen system of the Bön Tibetan religion, giving particular attention to […]
2019 Tibet Day @ UVA
Minor Hall 125Leonard van der Kuijp Lecture
Gibson Hall 211 1550 Jefferson Park Avenue, Charlottesville, VA, United StatesDetail of Metropolitan Museum #2004.139 "What Kind of an Animal is a Tree? Apropos of some Tibetan Reactions to Laghukālacakratantra, I:4" 3:30 pm Friday, April 19th in Gibson Hall 211. Leonard van der Kuijp is professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies and chairs the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard University. […]
Dr. Sangseraima Ujeed on Lineage in Mongolia
Gibson Hall 441 1540 Jefferson Park Avenue, Charlottesville, VA, United StatesRed and Yellow: Untangling the Mongolian Lineage Web In 1679, Khalkha Dza-ya Paṇḍita Blo-bzang ’phrin-las (1642-1715) was sent back to Mongolia by the Fifth Dalai Lama carrying upon his shoulders the duty to spread the teachings of Je Tsongkhapa. The advice that was bestowed upon Dza-ya Paṇḍita by the Fifth on this occasion was […]
Counter-modern Buddhism in Revolutionary Inner Asia
Nau Hall 342 1540 Jefferson Park Avenue, Charlottesville, VA, United StatesDrawing from his recent book Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing (Columbia University Press 2019), Matthew King will share the story of one Khalkha monk’s failed efforts to render the collapse of the Qing and Tsarist empires, the rise of nationalist and socialist revolutionary […]
Dr. Sarah Jacoby Lecture
Technologies of Sexuality in Tibetan Buddhism In the past year, sex abuse allegations have scandalized some of the most prominent global Tibetan Buddhist communities, raising pressing questions about the role of sexuality in Tibetan Buddhist practice. As a way of shedding light on this too often secretive subject, this talk will examine key Tibetan autobiographical […]
Dr. Annabella Pitkin Lecture: “Aim your Dharma Practice at a Beggar’s Life”
Nau Hall 342 1540 Jefferson Park Avenue, Charlottesville, VA, United States**Dr. Pitkin's talk has been postponed. Check back here for more information.** “Aim your Dharma Practice at a Beggar’s Life”: Affective Imaginaries of Renunciation and Longing in the Life of a Modern Tibetan Buddhist Master This talk explores stories about renunciation as practiced by the 20th century Indo-Tibetan Buddhist scholar-yogi Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen (1895-1977), […]
Dr. Tawni Tidwell Lecture: “Tibetan Medical Renaissance on the Eastern Plateau”
Nau Hall 342 1540 Jefferson Park Avenue, Charlottesville, VA, United States**Dr. Tidwell's talk has been postponed. Check back here for more information.** Tibetan Medical Renaissance on the Eastern Plateau: Pharmacological Lineages and Emergent Innovation This talk explores the last couple of decades of development in Tibetan medicine in eastern Tibet, particularly across Qinghai and Gansu provinces in the Tibetan region of Amdo. It first investigates […]
Voices from Larung Gar – Online Symposium
US Time Zones: 3-5:30pm PDT | 4-6:30pm MDT | 5-7:30pm CDT | 6-8:30pm EDT 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 Sixth International Seminar of Young Tibetologists རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་གཞོན་ནུའི་བོད་རིག་པའི་གྲོས་ཚོགས་ཐེངས་དྲུག་པ།
The Sixth International Seminar of Young Tibetologists (ISYT) was hosted by the Tibet Center and the Department of Religious Studies at University of Virginia. We would like to express our deep appreciation to the Jefferson Trust and the Department of Religious Studies for their generous support of this workshop. Special thanks to Khyentse Foundation and […]
Kaul and Anand on “Himalayan Geopolitics: Bhutan, Tibet, and Beyond”
Nau Hall 211 1540 Jefferson Park Avenue, Charlottesville, VA, United StatesThe UVA Tibet Center is pleased to welcome Dr. Nitasha Kaul and Dr. Dibyesh Anand from the University of Westminster for a shared talk on "Himalayan Geopolitics: Bhutan, Tibet, and Beyond" on Wednesday October 19th at 4pm in Nau 211. Contemporary Himalayan geopolitics is often reduced to being a playground for big power rivalry […]
Geshe Lharampa Lobsang Nyendak
Gibson Hall 211 1550 Jefferson Park Avenue, Charlottesville, VA, United StatesGeshe Lobsang Nyendak will present a public talk "Dream Bodies and Contemplation within Tibetan Tantric Buddhism" (གསང་སྔགས་ལས་བྱུང་བའི་རྨི་ལམ་གྱི་ལུས་ལ་དཔྱད་པ།) on Friday, November 4th at 3:30 pm in Gibson Hall 211. Geshe Lobsang Nyendak is the Chief Editor of the Collected Works of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama at the Office of His Holiness the Dalai […]
Dr. Pasang Yangjee Sherpa: “Living in the Midst of Dying: Reflections of a Sherpa Mother-scholar”
UVA Tibet Center is pleased to join the Virginia Center for the Study of Religion in supporting an online talk by Dr. Pasang Yangjee Sherpa: “Living in the Midst of Dying: Reflections of a Sherpa Mother-scholar” Register here: https://virginia.zoom.us/.../tJ0ldO2hqT8sEtB... About Dr. Sherpa: Dr. Sherpa's research focuses on Indigeneity, human dimensions of climate change, and the […]
Generative Contemplation Symposium April 20-21
Harrison Institute and Small Special Collections Library Auditorium at the University of Virginia 160 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VAGenerative Contemplation Symposium: The Art and Science of Effortless and Self-Emergence Contemplative Practices Event website and registration Across the multi-millennial discourse on contemplative practices within Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, there is a pervasive tension that persists between practices that apply effort and those that are effortless. Recently this has emerged as an important framework for […]
Dr. Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia: “Repairing Relations: Caring for the Sacred Habitat Across Dimensions in Sikkimese Ritual Cosmologies”
UVA Tibet Center is pleased to join the Virginia Center for the Study of Religion in supporting an online talk by Dr. Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia: "Repairing Relations: Caring for the Sacred Habitat Across Dimensions in Sikkimese Ritual Cosmologies" Dr. Bhutia's talk is one of two organized by UVA Religious Studies doctoral candidate Devin Zuckerman on […]
Tibetan Calligraphy Day Celebration བོད་ཀྱི་ཡིག་གཟུགས་ཉིན་མོའི་རྟེན་འབྲེལ་བྱེད་སྒོ།
Nau Hall 1540 Jefferson Park Avenue, Charlottesville, VA, United StatesCelebrate the 4 vowels and 30 consonants of the Tibetan language on Tibetan Calligraphy Day (4/30)! Original works by renowned Tibetan calligraphers from around the world will be on display. Pema Bhum and Kristina Dy-Liacco from Latse Project will join in the festivities to share more about their efforts to promote Tibetan language use […]
Lecture by Dorji Gyeltshen: And Now What? The Life, Status, and Education of Fully Ordained Nuns in Bhutan
New Cabell Hall 132 1605 Jefferson Park Avenue, Charlottesville, VA, United StatesNew Cabell Hall 132 In June 23, 2022, the Jé Khenpo Tulku Jigmé Chodrak, the religious head of Bhutan, conferred full ordination vows on over 140 Buddhist nuns. The event took place at the request of the king of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, and was organized by the Bhutan Nuns Foundation. The bhikṣuṇī ordination restored […]