Marcus Perman – Tsadra Conferences https://conference.tsadra.org Buddhist Conferences Thu, 17 Nov 2022 06:40:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.11 Lotsawa Translation Workshop Opening Remarks https://conference.tsadra.org/session/opening-remarks/ Wed, 02 Jan 2019 08:20:45 +0000 http://conference-wp.tsadra.org/?post_type=session&p=17221 Conference 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 a reflective tone, an appropriate ground upon which to introduce the keynote dialogue with Janet Gyatso and Kurtis Schaeffer.

]]> Lotsawa Translation Workshop Closing Remarks https://conference.tsadra.org/session/lotsawa-translation-workshop-closing-remarks/ Wed, 02 Jan 2019 08:04:26 +0000 http://conference-wp.tsadra.org/?post_type=session&p=17259 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.

]]> Using Technology Skillfully: Resources for Translators https://conference.tsadra.org/session/using-technology-skillfully-resources-for-translators/ Tue, 10 Apr 2018 06:00:14 +0000 http://conference-wp.tsadra.org/?post_type=session&p=14972 This special session will be of interest to translators looking to learn more about current resources available for Tibetan translation, including digital libraries, databases for canonical research, computer assisted translation tools, SmartCAT, Tibetan OCR, and other Tibetan text resources.

Resources described in the session are:

  1. Timeless Treasuries, a Tsadra Foundation Initiative;
  2. The Rinchen Terdzo Chenmo collection, a Tsadra Foundation project;
  3. The Damngak Rinpoche Dzo collection, a Tsadra Foundation project;
  4. Paul Hackett’s Columbia University Buddhist Canons Research Database;
  5. SmartCAT for Tibetan translators: ten minute demo from Dirk Schmidt of Esukhia;
  6. The Annotated Corpora of Classical Tibetan and
  7. A Part-of-Speech Tagged Corpus of Classical Tibetan, both from Nathan Hill of SOAS;
  8. Nitartha Digital Library from Lama Tenam and Gerry Wiener.
]]> Special Address: The 2017 Shantarakshita Award https://conference.tsadra.org/session/special-address-2017-shantarakshita-award/ Sat, 07 Apr 2018 03:32:24 +0000 http://conference-wp.tsadra.org/?post_type=session&p=14969 The inaugural Shantarakshita Award was presented by Eric Colombel and Marcus Perman of Tsadra Foundation and received by Bryan Cuevas (3rd) for The All-Pervading Melodious Drumbeat (Penguin Random House, 2015), Wulstan Fletcher and Helena Blankeleder (2nd) for Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book Two (Shambhala Publications, 2013), and Gavin Kilty (1st) for A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages (Library of Tibetan Classics, Wisdom Publications, 2013). As the first place winner of the inaugural award, Gavin Kilty addressed the assembly with heartfelt words of thanks to his teachers, employers, and editors (Thupten Jinpa and David Kittelstrom) and shared a bit about his his love of translation and of the great masters who influenced him.

The Shantarakshita Award

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