Closing Session – Tsadra Conferences

Lotsawa Translation Workshop Closing Remarks

Migmar Lama — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 08:04:26 +0000

In this short session, Dominique Townsend (Bard), Holly Gayley (University of Colorado, Boulder), Marcus Perman (Tsadra Foundation), Janet Gyatso (Harvard), Kurtis Schaeffer (UVa) and Lama Jabb (Oxford) offer their gratitude and brief reflections to responders, participants, and sponsors. Four participants of the workshop share their impressions of the weekend including having developed a deeper understanding of what is at stake in, and the challenges of, the practice of translation, and the importance of one’s disposition as an ambassador of a text’s content and context. Overall, attendees expressed appreciation of the collaborative process and how the community of translators of Tibetan language literature is growing and developing in a warm, familial manner.

Conference 2017 Closing Session

Marcus Perman — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 03:52:29 +0000

“Love, Gratitude, Inspiration” – Anne Carolyn Klein describes the meeting of minds and provides a heartfelt closing to the 2017 Translation & Transmission Conference.

Conference 2014 Closing Session

Marcus Perman — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 06:50:51 +0000

Thupten Jinpa closes the 2014 Translation & Transmission Conference with a summary of important themes emerging from the four days of thoughtful interaction. Broadly, these include translation, transmission, and the combination of the two, and most significantly, the developing sense of community among those working diligently to present Tibetan Buddhism to the West.