Lotsawa Translation Workshop Opening Remarks
Marcus Perman2022-11-16T23:40:41-07:00Conference organizers Holly Gayley (University of Colorado, Boulder) and Dominique Townsend (Bard College) welcome participants and mentors. Holly thanks Tsadra Foundation for supporting the conference, and shares her inspiration for facilitating sustained dialogue about various genres of Tibetan literature. Dominique introduces the venerable speakers for the opening keynote.
Marcus Perman, Director of Research for Tsadra Foundation, encourages translators in their work by articulating the relevance of translated publications for the Western Tibetan Buddhist audience. Ending with a moment of silence for two bright translators who recently passed away (Chris Stagg and Gen Tsering Dhundup Gongkatsang), Marcus helps start the workshop with […]
Conference 2017 Welcome Speeches
Marcus Perman2022-11-16T23:34:08-07:00The 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.
Conference 2014 Welcome Reception and Speeches
Marcus Perman2022-11-16T23:36:57-07:00Nearly three-hundred translators, teachers, students and scholars from all over the globe gathered for the initial welcome banquet and the official opening of the first Translation & Transmission Conference at the beautiful Keystone Conference Center in the mountains of Colorado. Eric Colombel of Tsadra Foundation welcomed everyone with a heartfelt speech about his personal journey from young Parisian student unable to find resources for the study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism to founding a nonprofit to develop those resources and share them with the world.
Conference 2014 Opening Remarks
Marcus Perman2022-11-16T23:36:57-07:00Vice President of Tsadra Foundation, Lama Drupgyu Anthony Chapman, welcomes all the participants and reflects on the long journeys of many of the translators and practitioners present at this historic opening of the 2014 Translation & Transmission Conference.
