06 October 2007 -- KRISHNA DAS visits www.krishnadas.com
Krishna Das to honor His Holiness the Dalai Lama on October 15 ... Please join Krishna Das and friends to celebrate the Dalai Lama's Congressional Gold.
The U.S. Congress will award H.H. the Dalai Lama the nation's highest civilian honor "in recognition of his enduring and outstanding contribution to peace, non-violence, human rights and religious understanding" on October 17. www.dalailama.com
09 September 2007 -- Craig Preston discussing the third and fourth Noble Truth
8 September 2007 -- Ron Leifer, M.D. is a psychiatrist with forty years experience as a psychotherapist. He has been a practicing Buddhist for more than twenty five years and has studied with many eminent Tibetan Lamas from the Kagyupa, Nyingmapa, and Gelugpa traditions. He is the author of The Happiness Project and Vinegar Into Honey (Snow Lion Publications.) This afternoon Ron discussed the first two Noble Truths which teach about the nature of our personal suffering and its causes. It was an extraordinary day. Tomorrow Craig Preston will discuss the third and fourth Noble Truth, which teach the alleviation of our suffering and the path to its alleviation. Craig studied Tibetan Buddhism with Jeffrey Hopkins and is on the adjunct faculty of Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies. He is the author of Buddhist Philosophy: LosangGonchok’s Short Commentary to Jamyan Shaybas’s Root Text on Tenets. (Snow Lion Publications.)
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The courses will serve as an introduction to this written language, which was created to translate the large corpus of Indian Buddhist sutras, tantras and commentaries from the original Sanskrit. It is the language of the sacred texts of Tibetan Buddhism, most of which have not been translated into modern Tibetan, Chinese or Western languages.
The courses will introduce students to the basics of the language and enable them to read short textual passages by the second semester.
They are open to UB students and members of the community and may be audited or taken for three undergraduate credits each.
The registration number for this fall's course, "Topics in Asian Studies: First Semester Classical Tibetan" (AS 394), is 042306. The registration number for the course to be offered in the spring 2008 semester, "Topics in Asian Studies: Second Semester Classical Tibetan" (AS 395, is 390705.)
Craig Preston is author of "Classical Buddhism" (with Daniel Cozort), "How to Read Classical Tibetan, Volume 1: Summary of the General Path" and "How to Read Classical Tibetan, Volume 2: Introduction to Buddhist Tenets."
He majored in religious studies at the University of Virginia, where he studied under the distinguished American Tibetologist Jeffery Hopkins and other noted Tibetan scholars. Preston holds a law degree and is an adjunct faculty member of the Namgyal Monastery in Ithaca, N.Y. His personal Web site can be found at http://www.giganticom.com
The fall class will convene on Aug. 30 and will meet on Thursdays from 5:30-8:10 p.m., in 12 O'Brian Hall on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. Textbooks will be available for purchase at the first class meeting. UB students who complete both classes for credit may use it to meet the College of Arts and Sciences language requirement.
Courses in intermediate and advanced classical Tibetan and in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy are also available by arrangement with the instructor.
For more information, including how to register for the course, contact Elizabeth Felmet, secretary of the Asian Studies Program, at 645-3474, ext. 2, or efelmet@buffalo.edu.
29 August 2007 - Bill Magee, seated left stopped in Ithaca on his way back to Taiwan. Bill holds a doctoral degree in Buddhist Studies from the University of Virginia. He is the author of Columbo and the Samurai Sword, Tibetan Oral Proficiency Exam and its language proficiency guidelines, co-author of Fluent Tibetan: A Proficiency-Oriented Learning System and other books and articles on Tibetan language and philosophy. He has taught the University of Virginia's internationally-famed summer Tibetan language program. He lives in Taiwan, where he teaches Tibetan and Sanskrit languages and Buddhism, and in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Krishna Das to honor His Holiness the Dalai Lama on October 15 ... Please join Krishna Das and friends to celebrate the Dalai Lama's Congressional Gold.
The U.S. Congress will award H.H. the Dalai Lama the nation's highest civilian honor "in recognition of his enduring and outstanding contribution to peace, non-violence, human rights and religious understanding" on October 17. www.dalailama.com
09 September 2007 -- Craig Preston discussing the third and fourth Noble Truth
8 September 2007 -- Ron Leifer, M.D. is a psychiatrist with forty years experience as a psychotherapist. He has been a practicing Buddhist for more than twenty five years and has studied with many eminent Tibetan Lamas from the Kagyupa, Nyingmapa, and Gelugpa traditions. He is the author of The Happiness Project and Vinegar Into Honey (Snow Lion Publications.) This afternoon Ron discussed the first two Noble Truths which teach about the nature of our personal suffering and its causes. It was an extraordinary day. Tomorrow Craig Preston will discuss the third and fourth Noble Truth, which teach the alleviation of our suffering and the path to its alleviation. Craig studied Tibetan Buddhism with Jeffrey Hopkins and is on the adjunct faculty of Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies. He is the author of Buddhist Philosophy: LosangGonchok’s Short Commentary to Jamyan Shaybas’s Root Text on Tenets. (Snow Lion Publications.)
More on Craig Perston:
BUFFALO, N.Y. --
As a follow up to the 2006 visit to University at Buffalo by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, the UB Asian Studies Program will offer introductory courses in the classical Tibetan language in the 2007-08 academic year taught by noted Tibetan scholar Craig Preston.The courses will serve as an introduction to this written language, which was created to translate the large corpus of Indian Buddhist sutras, tantras and commentaries from the original Sanskrit. It is the language of the sacred texts of Tibetan Buddhism, most of which have not been translated into modern Tibetan, Chinese or Western languages.
The courses will introduce students to the basics of the language and enable them to read short textual passages by the second semester.
They are open to UB students and members of the community and may be audited or taken for three undergraduate credits each.
The registration number for this fall's course, "Topics in Asian Studies: First Semester Classical Tibetan" (AS 394), is 042306. The registration number for the course to be offered in the spring 2008 semester, "Topics in Asian Studies: Second Semester Classical Tibetan" (AS 395, is 390705.)
Craig Preston is author of "Classical Buddhism" (with Daniel Cozort), "How to Read Classical Tibetan, Volume 1: Summary of the General Path" and "How to Read Classical Tibetan, Volume 2: Introduction to Buddhist Tenets."
He majored in religious studies at the University of Virginia, where he studied under the distinguished American Tibetologist Jeffery Hopkins and other noted Tibetan scholars. Preston holds a law degree and is an adjunct faculty member of the Namgyal Monastery in Ithaca, N.Y. His personal Web site can be found at http://www.giganticom.com
The fall class will convene on Aug. 30 and will meet on Thursdays from 5:30-8:10 p.m., in 12 O'Brian Hall on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. Textbooks will be available for purchase at the first class meeting. UB students who complete both classes for credit may use it to meet the College of Arts and Sciences language requirement.
Courses in intermediate and advanced classical Tibetan and in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy are also available by arrangement with the instructor.
For more information, including how to register for the course, contact Elizabeth Felmet, secretary of the Asian Studies Program, at 645-3474, ext. 2, or efelmet@buffalo.edu.
29 August 2007 - Bill Magee, seated left stopped in Ithaca on his way back to Taiwan. Bill holds a doctoral degree in Buddhist Studies from the University of Virginia. He is the author of Columbo and the Samurai Sword, Tibetan Oral Proficiency Exam and its language proficiency guidelines, co-author of Fluent Tibetan: A Proficiency-Oriented Learning System and other books and articles on Tibetan language and philosophy. He has taught the University of Virginia's internationally-famed summer Tibetan language program. He lives in Taiwan, where he teaches Tibetan and Sanskrit languages and Buddhism, and in Charlottesville, Virginia.