The Dalai Lama's Future Succession

Keynote Lecture: "The Dalai Lama's Future Succession" - Friday 9/13

Sept. 3, 2024

The Dalai Lama's Future Succession: Understanding the 14th Dalai Lama and His Formidable Contributions Dr. Dawa Lokyitsang Friday, September 13 at 4 pm Hale 230 | Reception to follow All are invited to join us on Friday, September 13 for a keynote lecture by Dr. Dawa Lokyitsang on "The Dalai...

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Dumra/The Secret Garden – Commemorating the CIA-Tibet Training Program at Camp Hale, June 7-9th

May 18, 2024

Dumra/The Secret Garden – Commemorating the CIA-Tibet Training Program at Camp Hale, 1958-1964 Together with the Colorado Tibetan community, the Vail Symposium, and CU’s Department of Anthropology, the Tibet Himalaya Initiative is pleased to invite you to a special event this summer linked to Professor Carole McGranahan's longstanding research. On...

Jamyang Norbu

Conversation about Tibetan History and Politics with Jamyang Norbu on Friday April 26

April 13, 2024

Echoes from Forgotten Mountains: A Conversation about Tibetan History and Politics with Jamyang Norbu April 26, Friday, 4 pm, Hale 230. Reception to follow Join us for a conversation and book signing with critically acclaimed writer Jamyang Norbu about his just-released book – Echoes from Forgotten Mountains: Tibet in War...

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Lecture on Mediating Feuds and Making Minorities on the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands of Late Republican and Early Maoist China | Benno Weiner on Thursday, April 11

Feb. 15, 2024

Mediating Feuds and Making Minorities on the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands of Late Republican and Early Maoist China. April 11 Thursday, 6pm, GUGG 205 In early 1941, the Kuomintang dispatched a well-known scholar-official, Gao Yihan, to investigate a “grassland dispute” between two Tibetan chiefdoms on the Qinghai-Gansu border. As Gao quickly discovered,...

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Lecture on Towards Contemplative Fluency: Framing Tibetan Meditation Practices | Michael Sheehy on April 3

Feb. 14, 2024

Towards Contemplative Fluency: Framing Tibetan Meditation Practices Wednesday, April 3, 2024, 6pm - 7:30pm Eaton Humanities 250 Meditation is an ancient human practice. Our ability to artfully cultivate attentive, imaginal, and embodied modes of consciousness, and more so, intentionally design and apply techniques to transcend ordinary experience are deeply integral...

Professor Padma ’tsho

CAS Luncheon Series - Buddhist Feminism in Tibet: Promoting Women’s Education, Health, and Equality in the Nuns’ Journal, Gangkar Lhamo | Padma 'tsho on March 21

Feb. 14, 2024

Huatse Gyal

Lecture on Tibetan Pastoralists as Analytical Agents and Screening of Documentary "Khata" | Huatse Gyal on Friday, March 8

Feb. 2, 2024

Please join us for a lecture and new documentary film with Huatse Gyal, Rice University. Film Screening of Khata: Purity or Poison? 12:30pm on Friday, March 8 | Guggenheim 201E Please RSVP via Eventbrite , lunch provided. Limited to 15. This 45-minute film juxtaposes the sense of "purity" and good...

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Feeding Asceticism: Himalayan Buddhist Renunciation, Devotion & Embodied Intimate Care | Lecture by Annabella Pitkin at 6pm on February 22nd

Jan. 30, 2024

Please join us for a lecture by Annabella Pitkin, Lehigh University on: Feeding Asceticism: Himalayan Buddhist Renunciation, Devotion & Embodied Intimate Care 6pm on Thursday, February 22nd Humanities 250 In Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist biographies, devotion frames stories of the intimate, emotionally intense connections between gurus and disciples. By contrast,...

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CU Days of Compassion with Thupten Jinpa, Compassion Institute, October 9-11

Sept. 25, 2023

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Tibetan literature at Jaipur Literature Festival in Boulder on September 23rd

Sept. 20, 2023

The Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) comes to town this weekend, September 21–23, 2023. There are two Tibet-related panels we would like to invite you to attend. Register here: https://jlflitfest.org/colorado The Tibet Himalaya Initiative (THI) is sponsoring the session with Tsering Yangzom Lama, whose debut novel We Measure the Earth with...

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