12:30 pm – Tsadra Conferences https://conference.tsadra.org Buddhist Conferences Wed, 26 Oct 2022 11:24:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.11 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.

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