Technology – Tsadra Conferences https://conference.tsadra.org Buddhist Conferences Wed, 26 Oct 2022 11:38:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.11 Approaches to Transmission in the West: A Discussion with Contemporary Shedra Students https://conference.tsadra.org/session/approaches-to-transmission-in-the-west-a-discussion-with-contemporary-shedra-students/ Sat, 14 Apr 2018 06:00:18 +0000 http://conference-wp.tsadra.org/?post_type=session&p=14976 There are significant barriers to western people looking to study at the highest level in the Tibetan Buddhist world. Would you enroll in a Tibetan monastic college in India or Nepal? Meet four westerners who did just that, many of whom still continue their decade of rigorous study today. This public session was facilitated by Robert Miller, who was director of education at a monastery in India, and features four western students from Tibetan monastic colleges: Katrin Querl (Drikung Kagyu College, Dehra Dun), Simon Houlton (Institute of Buddhist Dialectics, Dharamsala), Matt Weiss (Sera Je Monastic University, Bylakuppe), and Gerd Klintschar (Rangjung Yeshe Institute, Kathmandu).

]]> 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.
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