https://conference.tsadra.org Buddhist Conferences Thu, 17 Nov 2022 06:34:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.11 https://conference.tsadra.org/session/welcome-speeches/ Tue, 01 May 2018 05:25:13 +0000 http://conference-wp.tsadra.org/?post_type=session&p=14990 The opening ceremony of the 2017 Translation and Transmission Conference was introduced with speeches from Eric Colombel (President and Founder of the Tsadra Foundation), Chuck Lief (President of the Naropa University), and Valerio Ferme (Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities of the University of Colorado). The conference was held at the University of Colorado Law School, Boulder, and attended by more than 250 translators, scholars, and practitioners representing over forty-five translation groups and sanghas and thirty-five universities around the world.

]]> https://conference.tsadra.org/session/evening-event-with-donald-lopez-jr-and-thupten-jinpa/ Mon, 30 Apr 2018 05:19:54 +0000 http://conference-wp.tsadra.org/?post_type=session&p=14989 During the opening banquet, the tone of the conference was set by an intimate conversation between Professor Lopez and Geshe Jinpa discussing their love of Tibetan language and textual translation, as well as several book projects they have worked on together: Grains of Gold: Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler by Gendün Chöpel, The University of Chicago Press, 2014; The Treatise on Passion Dispelling the Darkness: A Jesuit’s Quest for the Soul of Tibet, Harvard University Press, 2017; and The Treatise on Passion by Gendun Chöpel, forthcoming.

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