Sunday 30 March, 14:45pm

@ The Barbican Centre, London

"The Yogin & The Monk" with

Andrew Quintman & Charles Manson

conversation on Milarepa and Karma Pakshi's lives, literature, and legacies

(free of charge, in person only)

 Frobisher Auditorium, Barbican Centre  02:45 PM – 03:30 PM

Spiritual and religious heroes in the Buddhism of Tibet and the Himalayas are often either a yogin figure or a monastic figure. Two iconic representatives of these are Milarepa, a revenge murderer who succeeded in enlightened redemption as a yogin, and Karma Pakshi, a ‘chosen child’ who instigated the reincarnate lama (‘Trulku’) traditions of Tibet, exemplified by the Karmapas and the Dalai Lamas. 

Andrew Quintman and Charles Manson, experts in the lives and literature of Milarepa and Karma Pakshi, compare and contrast the lives, biographies, spiritual songs, and the modern legacies of the two heroes.

https://thevoicesoffaith.com/schedule

https://thevoicesoffaith.com/artist/andrew-quintman

https://thevoicesoffaith.com/artist/charles-manson

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 recording:

Prof Matthew Kapstein lecture

2024 Toshihide Numata Book Award Presentation and Symposium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bAUQOFDi4o

 

for amusement...

(with music)

 

High Peaks Pure Earth 

Summer 2023 

Tibet reading list

https://highpeakspureearth.com/high-peaks-pure-earth-summer-2023-tibet-reading-list/

15 January, 2023

online

18.00 GMT (UTC)

recording of

Serendipitous Manuscripts: 

Karma Pakshi’s Memoirs, Past Lives, and Poetry

YouTube video link

 In researching the life/lives and writings of an acknowledged primary mover for the beginnings of the ‘Living Buddha’ reincarnate lamas tradition of Tibet – a tradition which famously culminated in the rule of the Dalai Lamas for 300 years – 3 manuscripts were crucial in informing the lives and writings of Karma Pakshi (1204-1283), accredited as the major influence in the early development of this tradition. The manuscripts were accessed by fortuitous circumstances. The three manuscripts – each of them has illustrations – are to be presented, described and discussed. 

 

free registration link to attend

 

 

a collection of writings and translations 

by Tsering D. Gonkatsang,

the beloved Gen-la for Tibetan Studies 

students & scholars at Oxford University

2017:     Armlet of the Pinnacle of the Noble Victory Banner:

         Locating Traces of Imperial Tibet in a Dhāraṇī in the British Museum

         by Michael Willis and Tsering Gonkatsang

1965:    A Song of Lhasa Memories

             composed by H.E Shelkar Lingpa at Darjeeling in 1911

             translated by Tsering Gonkatsang

2010    A Letter from the Dalai Lama

            by John Bray and Tsering D. Gonkatsang 

2016    Tibetan Woodblock Printing: An Ancient Art and Craft

            by Dungkar Lobzang Trinlé

            translated by Tsering Dhundup Gonkatsang

2015    The 'Miracle Patient' and the Revival of the Bodong Tradition in Exile

            by Tsering D Gonkatsang

2015    Worship of a Mountain Deity in the Shadow of Shar-dungri:

            Adaptation and Survival of the Sakya Community in Shar-khog area of Amdo

            by Tsering D. Gonkatsang

2003    Life of Itinerant Monks

            by Gedun Choephel

            translated by Tsering D. Gonkatsang

2009    The Ra Mo Che Temple, Lhasa, 

                and the Image of Mi bsKyod rDo rJe: The Narrative of Ri 'Bur sPrul sKu

            by Tsering Gonkatsang & Michael Willis

2008    The Symbolism of Tibetan Prayer Flags and Banners

            by Tsering D. Gonkatsang

2009    Three 19th Century Documents from Tibet 

            and the Lo Phyag Mission from Leh to Lhasa

            by John Bray & Tsering D. Gonkatsang

2011    Materia Medica of Tibetan Medicine: 

            Identification, Quality Check and Protection Measures

            by Dr Dawa, translation by Tsering D. Gonkatsang

(more to follow as time permits...)

 

 

 

Law & the Tibetan Empire

an exploration of a Tibetan manuscript @ British Library

video link

by Charles Manson

(Bodleian Libraries & British Library)

Law & The Tibetan Empire