Tibet

The Department of Religious Studies is pleased to announce a new course in Asian Studies: RLST 3820: Buddhist Ritual and Art with Dr. Ariana Maki Spring 2015 | MWF 3:00-3:50pm in Humanities 1B80 Beginning with the life of the Buddha, this course will explore how Buddhist art developed in India...

CU Geography Professor and Chair Emily Yeh recently finished a book on the recent development efforts in Tibet by the PRC. On Friday, October 24, she will give a public presentation on this book in a talk by the same title, Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese...

Next week, the Center for Asian Studies is pleased to collaborate with the Tsadra "Translation and Transmission" Conference to bring Andrew Quintman of Yale University to CU Boulder on Wednesday, October 1, to deliver a lecture on "The Making of Milarepa: Reading and Writing the Life of Tibet's Great Saint."...

Professor Padmatso of Southwest Nationalities University and Holly Gayley of the CU Religious Studies Department are co-presenting the first Luncheon Series lecture of the Fall 2014 semester, entitled "Non-Violence as a Shifting Signifier on the Tibetan Plateau." In eastern Tibet, along the border of Kham and Golok, Tibetan nomads are...

This article was originally published in the University of Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine. To read the full article, please click here . Belly up to a bar, drop by a café, or sit down at a bus stop and mention Tibet in most any American city, from Baltimore to...

Emily Yeh, Associate Professor of Geography at CU, will be at Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe on the Hill on Wednesday, February 12 at 7:00 p.m. to talk about her new book, Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development , published by Cornell University Press in 2013...

The first Luncheon Series talk of the year will be on Thursday, January 30. Marcus Perman of the Tsadra Foundation will discuss the culture of books in Tibet. In the context of written documents, if you ask the question, "what is sacred?" you get interesting answers from different religious thinkers,...

The first Luncheon Series talk of the year will be on Thursday, January 30. Marcus Perman of the Tsadra Foundation will discuss the culture of books in Tibet. In the context of written documents, if you ask the question, "what is sacred?" you get interesting answers from different religious thinkers,...

The collaboration on a Buddhist Studies lecture series—between the University of Colorado and Naropa University—got off to a wonderful start on Thursday, October 17th. Janet Gyatso from Harvard University spent the day visiting both institutions and interacting with faculty and students. There were two main events: a luncheon hosted by...

On Friday, November 15, Brot Coburn, author of The Vast Unknown , will give a presentation at CU. Coburn will contextualize the first American ascent of Mt. Everest in 1963, the topic of his book, within the Cold War; discuss many of the unique characters involved in the expedition; and...