Personal Account – Tsadra Conferences

Evening Event with Donald Lopez Jr. and Thupten Jinpa

Marcus Perman — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 05:19:54 +0000

During the opening banquet, the tone of the conference was set by an intimate conversation between Professor Lopez and Geshe Jinpa discussing their love of Tibetan language and textual translation, as well as several book projects they have worked on together: Grains of Gold: Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler by Gendün Chöpel, The University of Chicago Press, 2014; The Treatise on Passion Dispelling the Darkness: A Jesuit’s Quest for the Soul of Tibet, Harvard University Press, 2017; and The Treatise on Passion by Gendun Chöpel, forthcoming.

Evening Event with Robert Thurman

Marcus Perman — Sun, 18 Mar 2018 08:59:02 +0000

Robert Thurman, activist-scholar-practitioner and pioneer of Tibetan studies and Buddhist studies in the academy, shares his eclectic, joyous, and encouraging thoughts to the audience of translators about the state of Tibetan Buddhism’s transmission to our ever-evolving Western society.

Evening Event with Jeffrey Hopkins

Marcus Perman — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 08:02:31 +0000

Jeffrey Hopkins offers reflections on his life and work and how his trailblazing study of Tibetan Buddhism, his poetic sensibility, and his love for the English language and its literary heritage informed his translations of Tibetan literature which is equally fraught with meaning and legacy.

Interview with Alak Zenkar Rinpoche

Marcus Perman — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 17:00:54 +0000

Wulstan Fletcher interviews Alak Zenkar Rinpoche about his experience finding, editing, and publishing rare texts.