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Welcome to the Event Library where you will find recordings of workshops, speeches, meetings, and other events related to the translation and transmission of Tibetan Buddhism to the contemporary sphere. Use the filters to search for speakers, events, topics, or session types. All video, audio, and other material here is provided for free by Tsadra Foundation.

Welcome Speech of the 2019 Tathāgatagarbha Symposium

Event: Vienna Symposium 2019 – Evening Event
Speakers: Klaus-Dieter Mathes
Topics: Buddha Nature, Welcome

Tathāgatagarbha: A Brief History

Event: Vienna Symposium 2019 – Keynote Lecture
Speakers: Donald Lopez Jr.
Topics: Buddha Nature, History

Zhang ston Bsod nams grags pa’s Defense of Dol po pa’s Clear-Cut Distinction between Buddha Nature and the Ground Consciousness

Event: Vienna Symposium 2019 – Paper Presentation
Speakers: Klaus-Dieter Mathes
Topics: Buddha Nature, Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen, Ground Consciousness, Shentong

Empty of True Existence, Yet Full of Qualities. Tshogs gnyis rgya mtsho (1880–1940) on Buddha Nature.

Event: Vienna Symposium 2019 – Paper Presentation
Speakers: Filippo Brambilla
Topics: Buddha Nature, Emptiness, Tsoknyi Gyatso

Buddha Nature as Seen by Early Bka’ brgyud Masters

Event: Vienna Symposium 2019 – Paper Presentation
Speakers: Martina Draszczyk
Topics: Buddha Nature, Gampopa, Kagyu Masters

The Difference Between a Sentient Being and a Buddha: ’Jig rten gsum mgon’s Instruction on the Process of Confusion

Event: Vienna Symposium 2019 – Paper Presentation
Speakers: Khenpo Tamphel
Topics: Buddha, Buddha Nature, Jigten Sumgon, Sentient Being

Uttaratantraśāstra: A New French Translation from Tibetan According to ‘Jam mgon Kong sprul’s Commentary

Event: Vienna Symposium 2019 – Paper Presentation
Speakers: Christian Charrier, Patrick Carré
Topics: Buddha Nature, Jamgön Kongtrul, Translation

Sentient Beings Within: Buddha-Nature and the Great Perfection

Event: Vienna Symposium 2019 – Paper Presentation
Speakers: Douglas Duckworth
Topics: Buddha Nature, Great Perfection, Sentient Being

Buddha-Nature and Selfhood

Event: Vienna Symposium 2019 – Paper Presentation
Speakers: David Higgins
Topics: Buddha Nature, Selfhood

The impact of a Shentong interpretation of Tathāgatagarbha doctrine from the point of view of a western Buddhist practitioner

Event: Vienna Symposium 2019 – Paper Presentation
Speakers: Shenpen Hookham
Topics: Buddha Nature, Practitioner, Shentong

Observing the Link between Self-awareness and Buddha Nature in Ratnākaraśānti’s Prajñāpāramitopadeśa

Event: Vienna Symposium 2019 – Paper Presentation
Speakers: Hong Luo
Topics: Buddha Nature, Ratnākaraśānti

The Role of the Ratnagotravibhāga in Tā ra nā tha’s dBu ma theg mchog

Event: Vienna Symposium 2019 – Paper Presentation
Speakers: Sina Joos
Topics: Buddha Nature, Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen, Shentong, Taranatha

Revisiting Gorampa on Buddha Nature

Event: Vienna Symposium 2019 – Paper Presentation
Speakers: Khenpo Ngawang Jorden
Topics: Buddha Nature, Gorampa

Selfhood, Secrecy, Singularity: Reassessing the Early Life of the Tathāgatagarbha in India

Event: Vienna Symposium 2019 – Paper Presentation
Speakers: Christopher V. Jones
Topics: Buddha Nature, India, Secrecy, Selfhood

Examples of the Term tathāgatagarbha Appearing in Indic Tantric Literature

Event: Vienna Symposium 2019 – Paper Presentation
Speakers: Kazuo Kano
Topics: Buddha Nature, India, Tantra

The Luminous Basis for Buddhahood: ’Jig rten mgon po’s Pith Instructions for Merging the Nature of Mind with the Dharmakāya

Event: Vienna Symposium 2019 – Paper Presentation
Speakers: Casey Kemp
Topics: Buddha Nature, Jigten Gonpo

How the Concepts of “buddha-nature” (Tathāgatagarbha) and “innate enlightenment” (Hongaku) were interpreted by Shinran (1173-1263), Founder of the Jōdo-Shin-Shū School of Japanese Pure Land Buddhism

Event: Vienna Symposium 2019 – Paper Presentation
Speakers: Seiji Kumagai
Topics: Buddha Nature, Hongaku, Japanese Pure Land Buddhism, Shinran

Preliminary Notes on the Notion of Buddha Nature in the Single Intention

Event: Vienna Symposium 2019 – Paper Presentation
Speakers: Katrin Querl
Topics: Buddha Nature, Jigten Gonpo

Notes from the Cave: ‘Jigs med gling pa on buddha-nature

Event: Vienna Symposium 2019 – Paper Presentation
Speakers: Kurtis Schaeffer
Topics: Buddha Nature, Great Perfection, Jigme Lingpa

Tantric Zhentong Visions of Tathāgatagarbha in Tibetan Kālacakra Yoga Manuals

Event: Vienna Symposium 2019 – Paper Presentation
Speakers: Michael Sheehy
Topics: Buddha Nature, Kālacakra, Shentong, Tantra

From Buddha Nature to Original Enlightenment “Contemplating Suchness” in Medieval Japan

Event: Vienna Symposium 2019 – Paper Presentation
Speakers: Jacqueline Stone
Topics: Buddha Nature, Hongaku, Japan

Rong-zom-pa on the Tathāgatagarbha and Pratītyasamutpāda Theories

Event: Vienna Symposium 2019 – Paper Presentation
Speakers: Dorji Wangchuk
Topics: Buddha Nature, Dependent Origination, Rongzompa

New research on the concept of buddha-nature in India: the beginnings

Event: Vienna Symposium 2019 – Paper Presentation
Speakers: Michael Zimmermann
Topics: Buddha Nature, History, India

Lotsawa Translation Workshop Opening Remarks

Event: Lotsawa Translation Workshop – Opening Remarks
Speakers: Dominique Townsend, Holly Gayley, Marcus Perman
Topics: Tibetan Language, Translation, Transmission

The State of the Field

Event: Lotsawa Translation Workshop – Evening Event
Speakers: Janet Gyatso, Kurtis Schaeffer
Topics: Poetry, Tibetan Language, Translation, Transmission

Criteria for Beauty and Readability

Event: Lotsawa Translation Workshop – Breakout Session
Speakers: Amelia Hall, Andrew Schelling
Topics: Poetry, Sanskrit Language, Tibetan Language, Translation, Transmission

Uncontrived Elegance in Tibetan Songs

Event: Lotsawa Translation Workshop – Breakout Session
Speakers: John Canti, Sarah Harding
Topics: Tibetan Language, Translation, Transmission

Vocabularies of Longing

Event: Lotsawa Translation Workshop – Breakout Session
Speakers: Lara Braitstein, Sarah Jacoby
Topics:

An Act of Bardo: Translating Tibetan Poetry

Event: Lotsawa Translation Workshop – Keynote Lecture
Speakers: Lama Jabb
Topics: Poetry, Tibetan Language, Translation, Transmission

Dynamics of Devotion

Event: Lotsawa Translation Workshop – Plenary Session
Speakers: Andrew Quintmen, Anne Klein, Heidi Nevin, Holly Gayley, Lara Braitstein
Topics: Tibetan Language, Translation, Transmission

Collections of Songs (mgur ‘bum)

Event: Lotsawa Translation Workshop – Breakout Session
Speakers: Andrew Quintmen, Kurtis Schaeffer
Topics: Poetry, Tibetan Language, Translation, Transmission

Gender in Translating Devotional Verse

Event: Lotsawa Translation Workshop – Breakout Session
Speakers: Jue Liang, Natasha Mickles
Topics: Translation, Transmission

Linguistic Hospitality

Event: Lotsawa Translation Workshop – Breakout Session
Speakers: Dominique Townsend, Lucas Carmichael
Topics: Tibetan Language, Translation, Transmission

Rasa Theory and Affect

Event: Lotsawa Translation Workshop – Breakout Session
Speakers: Annabella Pitkin, Nancy Lin
Topics: Translation, Transmission

Reflections on the Translation Process

Event: Lotsawa Translation Workshop – Plenary Session
Speakers: Dominique Townsend, John Canti, Jules Levinson, Lama Jabb, Sarah Harding
Topics: Tibetan Language, Translation, Transmission

Balancing Form and Content

Event: Lotsawa Translation Workshop – Breakout Session
Speakers: Jann Ronis, Stephen Gethin
Topics: Translation, Transmission

Devotion to the Guru, Loyalty to the Nation

Event: Lotsawa Translation Workshop – Breakout Session
Speakers: Holly Gayley, Riga Shakya
Topics: Tibetan Language, Translation, Transmission

Ornamentation Shared by Poetry and Song

Event: Lotsawa Translation Workshop – Breakout Session
Speakers: Gendun Rabsel, Nicole Willock
Topics: Poetry, Tibetan Translation, Translation, Transmission

Textuality and Materiality

Event: Lotsawa Translation Workshop – Breakout Session
Speakers: Alexander Gardner, Ben Nourse
Topics: Translation, Transmission

Lotsawa Translation Workshop Closing Remarks

Event: Lotsawa Translation Workshop – Closing Session
Speakers: Dominique Townsend, Holly Gayley, Janet Gyatso, Kurtis Schaeffer, Lama Jabb, Marcus Perman
Topics: Tibetan Translation, Translation, Transmission

Conference 2017 Welcome Speeches

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Opening Remarks
Speakers: Chuck Lief, Eric Colombel, Valerio Ferme
Topics: Intention, Translation, Transmission

Evening Event with Donald Lopez Jr. and Thupten Jinpa

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Evening Event
Speakers: Donald Lopez Jr., Thupten Jinpa
Topics: Collaboration, Personal Account, Translation, Translator, Translator's Motivation, Working Together

What Authority Can a Translation Claim?

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Keynote Lecture
Speakers: Susan Bassnett
Topics: History, Translation, Translation Studies, Translation Theory

Translators and Intention

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Plenary Session
Speakers: Anne Klein, Heidi Nevin, Karl Brunnholzl, Wulstan Fletcher
Topics: Intention, Translation, Translator

Translation Theories Made Practical

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Discussion Session
Speakers: Holly Gayley, Roger Jackson
Topics: Practical Translation, Translation, Translation Theory

Working Together: Approaches to Collaboration and Negotiation

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Discussion Session
Speakers: Alexander Gardner, Dominique Townsend
Topics: Collaboration, Negotiation, Working Together

Who Gets to Be a Translator? Qualifications and Questions of Authority

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Discussion Session
Speakers: Douglas Duckworth, Lara Braitstein
Topics: Translator, Translator's Authority, Translator's Qualifications

The Translator’s Intention: Motivation, Intended Impact, and Why They Matter

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Discussion Session
Speakers: Eric Colombel, Thomas Doctor
Topics: Intention, Translation, Translator's Motivation

Translation: Fidelity vs Innovation

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Discussion Session
Speakers: Andrew Quintmen, Dan Hirshberg
Topics: Fidelity, Innovation, Translation

Approaches to Translation & Transmission

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Plenary Session
Speakers: David Bellos, Jonathan Gold, Luis Gomez, Susan Bassnett
Topics: Innovation, Translation, Transmission

The Proto-History of Buddhist Translation: From Gāndhārī and Pāli to Han-Dynasty Chinese

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Keynote Lecture
Speakers: Jan Nattier
Topics: Chinese Language, Early Buddhism, History, Old Traditions, Pali Language, Translation

Translating: What and How?

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Plenary Session
Speakers: Elizabeth Napper, Janet Gyatso, Kurtis Schaeffer, Thupten Jinpa
Topics: Poetry, Translation, Translation Theory

Kavya in Tibet

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Translator's Craft Session
Speakers: Andrew Quintmen, Gendun Rabsel, Kurtis Schaeffer, Nicole Willock
Topics: Poetry, Sanskrit Language, Translation Theory

Translating the Languages of Contemplative Experience: rdzogs chen dang phyag rgya chen po

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Translator's Craft Session
Speakers: Anne Klein, David Germano, Ken McLeod
Topics: Contemplative Experience, Translation

Unique Registers and Specialized Terminology: Sanskrit and the Tibetan Language in Translation

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Translator's Craft Session
Speakers: Art Engle, Christian Wedemeyer
Topics: Sanskrit Language, Terminology, Tibetan Language, Translation

Working with Old Tibetan Sources

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Translator's Craft Session
Speakers: Brandon Dotson, Jacob Dalton
Topics: Dunhuang Texts, Old Sources, Translation

Approaches to Transmission in the West: A Discussion with Contemporary Shedra Students

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Translator's Craft Session
Speakers: Gerd Klintschar, Katrin Querl, Matt Weiss, Robert Miller (Lozang Zopa), Simon Houlton
Topics: Innovation, New Voices, Priorities, Shedra Students, Technology, Transmission

Working with the Medium of the English Language

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Translator's Craft Session
Speakers: Thupten Jinpa, Wulstan Fletcher
Topics: English Language, Translation

Accuracy and Inspiration: Translating Mahamudra Texts

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Translator's Craft Session
Speakers: Elizabeth Callahan, Klaus-Dieter Mathes
Topics: Accuracy, Inspiration, Mahamudra Texts, Translation

Oddities and Curiosities in Tibetan Translation

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Translator's Craft Session
Speakers: Amelia Hall, Dan Martin
Topics: Oddities, Tibetan Translation, Translation

Using Technology Skillfully: Resources for Translators

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Translator's Craft Session
Speakers: Dirk Schmidt, Gerry Wiener, Kurt Keutzer, Marcus Perman, Nathan Hill, Ngawang Trinley, Paul Hackett
Topics: Innovation, Resources, Technology, Translator

Approaches to Transmission in the West: New Voices and Old Traditions

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Translator's Craft Session
Speakers: Ari Goldfield, Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, Gyurme Avertin, Sarah Plazas
Topics: New Voices, Old Traditions, Pedagogy in Transmission, Transmission

Translation for the Sake of Self and Other

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Keynote Lecture
Speakers: José Ignacio Cabezón
Topics: Inspiration, Intention, Pedagogy in Transmission, Self-learning in Translation, Translation, Translator, Transmission

Translations in Transmission

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Plenary Session
Speakers: Karma Lekshe Tsomo, Ringu Tulku, Sarah Harding, Yeshe Gyamtso
Topics: Love, Translation, Transmission

Special Address: The 2017 Shantarakshita Award

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Award
Speakers: Eric Colombel, Gavin Kilty, Marcus Perman
Topics: Awards

Large Scale Projects: Multi-Volume, Multi-Source Language, Collaborative Projects

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Discussion Session
Speakers: James Gentry, John Canti, Robert Thurman, Tom Yarnall
Topics: Collaboration, Large Projects, Multi-source Language, Multi-volume Translation, Translation, Working Together

Translating and Teaching Buddhism in the Modern World

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Discussion Session
Speakers: Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen, Andreas Doctor, Dominique Side, Judith Simmer-Brown, Sangye Khandro
Topics: Pedagogy in Transmission, Translation, Transmission

Publishing Translations: A Q&A Session with Two Buddhist Publishers

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Discussion Session
Speakers: Brianna Quick, Casey Kemp, David Kittelstrom, Nikko Odiseos
Topics: Buddhist Publishers, Publishing

Editing for Practitioners: Presenting Liturgies, Commentaries, and Songs of Realization

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Discussion Session
Speakers: Catherine Dalton, Larry Mermelstein
Topics: Commentaries, Editing, Liturgies, Practitioner, Songs of Realization

Transmission and Translation: Priorities for the Next 20 Years

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Discussion Session
Speakers: Greg Seton, Holly Gayley
Topics: Priorities, Translation, Transmission

The Editorial Process Throughout Creation and Completion Stages

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Plenary Session
Speakers: David Kittelstrom, Emily Bower, John Canti, Tom Yarnall
Topics: Editing

Conference 2017 Closing Session

Event: TT Conference 2017 – Closing Session
Speakers: Anne Klein
Topics: Inspiration, Love, Translation, Transmission, Working Together

Conference 2014 Welcome Reception and Speeches

Event: TT Conference 2014 – Opening Remarks
Speakers: Eric Colombel
Topics: Welcome

Conference 2014 Opening Remarks

Event: TT Conference 2014 – Opening Remarks
Speakers: Anthony Chapman
Topics: Inspiration, Intention, Welcome

Be Kind to Your Reader

Event: TT Conference 2014 – Keynote Lecture
Speakers: David Bellos
Topics: Accuracy, Translation, Translation Theory, Translator

Translation: Theory and Praxis

Event: TT Conference 2014 – Plenary Session
Speakers: Roger Jackson, Sarah Harding, Thupten Jinpa
Topics: Translation

Traduttore, Traditore: The Role of the Translator

Event: TT Conference 2014 – Plenary Session
Speakers: Catherine Dalton, Gavin Kilty, Nicole Willock, Tom Tillemans, Tyler Dewar
Topics: Intention, Translation, Translator

Translating Biographical and Historical Materials

Event: TT Conference 2014 – Workshop
Speakers: Amelia Hall, Dan Martin, Kurtis Schaeffer
Topics: Biographical Materials, Historical Materials, Translation

Translating Philosophical Materials A

Event: TT Conference 2014 – Workshop
Speakers: Dorji Wangchuk, Sara McClintock, Thomas Doctor
Topics: Philosophical Materials, Translation

Translating Spiritual Instructions

Event: TT Conference 2014 – Workshop
Speakers: Peter Alan Roberts, Sangye Khandro, Sarah Harding
Topics: Spiritual Instructions, Translation

Translating Vajrayana Commentarial Materials

Event: TT Conference 2014 – Workshop
Speakers: Elizabeth Callahan, Jacob Dalton, Lama Chonam
Topics: Commentaries, Translation, Vajrayana Commentarial Materials