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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

📘New Publication In search for the provenance of the books of the Tucci Tibetan Collection. Michela Clemente. Serie Orientale Roma n.s. 56. Roma: ISMEO Scienze e Lettere, 2026. 👏 #tibetanstudies SRC: S6755 🖼️ Giuseppe Tucci in Miang, Western Tibet, 1933. Neg. Dep. IsIAO 6037/28, photo by E. Ghersi

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

📕 New Publication The Kusāli Yogi: Vinaya, Tantric Yoga, and the Internalization of Practice in the Early Kagyupa Tradition. Jan Sobisch. Dynamics in the History of Religions, vol. 17. Leiden: Brill, 2026. 👏 @ceres-rub.bsky.social SRC: S6745 #tibetanstudies #buddhiststudies #kagyu #yogastudies

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

📘 New Publication Tibetan rulers: traditional practices and historic ideologies. Fernanda Pirie, Ian MacCormack and Daniel Wojahn (eds.). Kathmandu: Vajra Books, 2026. Vajra Academic, vol. vii. 👏👏👏 SRC ID: S6715 #tibetanstudies #tibetanhistory #tibetangovernance

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

📕 Lately Publication Yungdrung: A Ramble in Tibetan Studies. A Festschrift for Charles Ramble George FitzHerbert, Fernanda Pirie, Ulrike Roesler and Alice Travers (eds.). Kathmandu: Vajra Books, 2026. 👏 SRC ID: S6729 #tibetanstudies

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

📘 Publication ལམ་འབྲས་བླ་མ་རྒྱ་བོད་ཀྱི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་རྒྱས་པ། Sakya Editorial Board (ed.) Dehradun: The Great Sakya Monlam Foundation, 2025. Chagen's Virūpa Biography & Lengthy Lamdre History. Diplomatic editions from 2 rare mss. at the Cultural Palace of Minorities, Beijing. SRC ID: S6589 #sakyapa #virupa #lamdre

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

We are continuing to grow in content while currently adapting to the new forms of knowledge, meaning & creatorship. 🎉 6666 source entries 🎉 sakyaresearch.org #6.6k #tibetanliterature #tibetanbooks #tibetanhistory #tibetanstudies #sakyapa

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

📕 New translation: ངག་དབང་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་གྱི་སྟག་ལུང་ཆོས་འབྱུང་དབྱིན་ཡིག་ཏུ་བསྒྱུར་བ། Wondrous ocean of eloquence: histories of the Taklung Kagyu tradition. Gyurme Dorje (trans.). Boulder: Snow Lion, 2025. 👏👏 SRC ID: sakyaresearch.org/sources/6468 #tibetanstudies #tibetanhistory #tibetantranslation #kagyu #taklung

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

🎙️ #TibetanStudiesTalks Thursday, 12 June 2025, 14:15 (CEST) Online Guest Lecture in Indology & Tibetology, @lmumuenchen.bsky.social Lecture by Pentsok Whenggyel Rtsang: The Evolution and Great Diversity of Tibetan Scripts lmu-munich.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi... #tibetanscript #tibetancalligraphy

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

📰 New post on Jörg Heimbel's 👨‍💻 blog on Tibetan Buddhist art: 🖼️ From Rongtön Sheja Künrik to Lhachok Sengge: Correcting a Thangka Attribution artnotes.ngorpa.org/1743/ #tibetanart #tibetanpainting #thangka #sakyapa #lamdre #ngorpa

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Se ston kun rig as Lamdre lineal teacher སེ་སྟོན་ཀུན་རིག་གི་ལམ་འབྲས་བླ་བརྒྱུད་གསེར་ཐང་། 🖼️ thangka in the Musée Guimet, MA 6006 After The Gongkar Lamdre: masters in Khyenluk style (Dehradun, 2024), fig. 74 #tibetanart #tibetanpainting #thangka #sakyapa #lamdre #ngorpa 📿

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

‪📰 New post on Jörg Heimbel's 👨‍💻 blog on Tibetan Buddhist art: 🖼️ Unveiling Sacred Lineage: A Newly Discovered Funerary Commission of the Ngorpa Lamdre Lineage Masters artnotes.ngorpa.org/1482 #tibetanart #tibetanpainting #thangka #sakyapa #lamdre #ngorpa

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

🎦 Moving video about those who were the first to flee their homeland & followed His Holiness into exile. After a life dedicated to spiritual growth & rebuilding their tradition far from home, they meet their idol again in South India. youtu.be/EuQcibxC5e0 #tashilhunpo #seraje #seramey #humbleness

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YouTube video by སྤྱི་ནོར་ྋགོང་ས་ྋསྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

📕 New #OA publication: #Nomads' tents in Tibet and beyond: dwelling and craft in sociotechnical context. Hubert Feiglstorfer, Kristina Pfeifer & ཚེ་རིང་གྲོང་ཤར།. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2024. 🥳 SRC ID: S6344 Download: verlag.oeaw.ac.at/produkt/noma... #tibetanstudies #drokpa

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

📕 New publication ས་སྐྱའི་གདུང་རབས་ཆེན་མོ་དབྱིན་ཡིག་ཏུ་བསྒྱུར་བ། པོད་དང་པོ། The amazing treasury of the Sakya lineage. Volume 1. Kunga Sherab, Matthew King. Somerville, Mass.: Wisdom Publications, 2024. 👏 SRC ID: www.sakyaresearch.org/sources/6343 #tibetanstudies #sakyapa #tibetanhistory #tibetantranslation

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

The Lamdre master Je Gonpawa aka Shangton Chobar ཞང་དགོན་པ་བའམ་ཞང་སྟོན་ཆོས་འབར་གྱི་ཞལ་ཐང་། 🖼️ thangka sold at @Lempertzauction, Dec. 2024 📜 with name inscriptions of the central and the minor figures #tibetanart #tibetanpainting #thangka #lamdre

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

🗿Hevajra in the dancing posture (གར་འཁྲབ།) with his legs trampling on the four māras (བརྩེགས་གདན།) as practiced in the Ngor tradition. After G. Tucci, Tibet: land of snows (1967), plate 72. #tibetanart #tibetansculpture #hevajra #ngorpa

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

📚 Two more books by the Sakya Editorial Board (ས་སྐྱ་རྩོམ་སྒྲིག་ཁང་།) of the Great Sakya Monlam Foundation, Dehradun, 2024. For bibliographic information see SRC IDs S6337: Lam 'bras cha lag gi bka' khrid. S6336: Sa skya legs bshad gsar ma. #tibetanliterature #sakyapa #lamdre

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

📘 New publication: It's finally out! 10 kilos of contemplative wisdom, packed into 16400 headwords and 5 volumes. ལམ་འབྲས་ཚིག་མཛོད་ཆེན་མོ། The Great Lamdre Dictionary. Gen Kundue, Sakya Editorial Board. Dehradun: The Great Sakya Monlam Foundation, 2024. 👏 ➡️ SRC ID: S6335 #sakyapa #lamdre #yogastudies

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

📰 New post on Jörg Heimbel's 👨‍💻 blog on Tibetan Buddhist art: 🖼️Two Paintings of a Newly Identified Set Depicting the Lineage Masters of the Lamdre artnotes.ngorpa.org/233/ #tibetanart #tibetanpainting #thangka #sakyapa #lamdre #ngorpa

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

X/Twitter has really become unbearable. Thanks to @marcomaroni.it's simple programme, I was able to transfer most of my tweets (136) from Twitter/X to 🌤️@bsky.app Note that all tweets up to this point have been imported. #newhere Programme and instructions on github: github.com/marcomaroni-...

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GitHub - marcomaroni-github/twitter-to-bluesky: Import all tweets exported from X/Twitter to a Bluesky account.

Import all tweets exported from X/Twitter to a Bluesky account. - marcomaroni-github/twitter-to-bluesky

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

🧾New journal issue Orientations 55/6, Nov/Dec 2024 with an article by Karl Ryavec on a special #Ngorpa lineage #thangka of the #Lamdre A Previously Unknown Chinese Landscape Tradition of the Ngor School of Tibetan Painting, 92-98. t.co/rTdFQys2dB #tibetanart #sakyapa

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

This is a stunningly beautiful painting in the early #Gyantse style. #tibetanart #tibetanpainting #thangka #sakyapa Check out the Nagel auction site for better pictures: t.co/YIPRqI4pbY t.co/Rabdg9Qa6J

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

🖼️The wonderful @rubinmuseum collection is going global🌏 ...with art objects related to the Sakyapa and its various branches. 👏 Begin your search: rubinmuseum.org #tibetanart #himalayanart #tibetanstudies #tibetanpainting #tibetansculpture #thangka #sakyapa #ngorpa

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

📕#OA #buddhiststudies publication Burlesque of the philosophers. Indian and Buddhist studies in memory of Helmut Krasser. V. Eltschinger, J. Kramer, P. Patil & C. Yoshimizu (eds.). Bochum/Freiburg: projekt verlag, 2023. Hamburg Buddhist Studies 19. URL: t.co/dvItqqwUdR

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

🎙️#TibetanStudiesTalks NOW! International Conference on the Northern Treasures, 17 & 18 October, 2024, @Inst_IFRAE Program here: t.co/uBhzGqTDbG Zoom link: t.co/FewTjq3Fsg #tibetanhistory #tibetanstudies #buddhiststudies #jangter

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

📙 Some Buddhist Studies publications from the Lumbini International Research Institute (LIRI) available for download: t.co/hVUbVlwn39 Rare texts from Tibet (contents): t.co/zNGsR6qOqP #OA #tibetanhistory #tibetanbiography #tibetanstudies #buddhiststudies

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

📚new books གོང་མ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་དགུང་ལོ་བརྒྱད་ཅུར་ཕེབས་པའི་གྱ་སྟོན་དུ་ཕྱག་དེབ་གསར་ཐོན། published on the occasion of the 80th birthday of H.H. the 41st Sakya Trizin For bibliographic information see SRC IDs S6299, S6302, S6303, S6304, S6137 (reprint) #sakyapa #tibetanliterature

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

བོད་ཀྱི་དབུ་མེད་ཡི་གེའི་ཡིག་འཛིན་རིག་ནུས། Try Tibetan cursive (Betsug/Drutsa) text recognition with @Transkribus URL: t.co/eqex12QhJN 👩‍💻The AI Model was developed by @RachaelGriff1 in the framework of the @tibschol project. #tibetanDH #tibetancomputing #digitaltibetan

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

📰New article by @wiselange and Y. Lhendup👏 🗺️On the Harrer collection of 17 historical Tibetan maps depicting areas in Kham, Arunachal Pradesh, Amdo & southeastern Tibet (Lhokha), preserved at the VMZ @musethno #tibetanstudies #tibetanhistory #tibetanmaps t.co/tFC1OY1QpK

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

📕Latest @dharmaebooks on the [b]Tsum valley [SE of Kyirong], ed. by the Tsum Research Group, Nepal སྦས་ཡུལ་ཙུམ་གྱི་ཡིག་མཛོད་བཀྲ་ཤིས་དཔལ་བཟང་། ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཞིབ་འཇུག་ལོ་ཙཱ་ཚོགས་པ། Pdf/epub download dharmaebooks.org/tag/tsum #tibetanstudies #tibetanhistory #tibetanbiography #tsumvalley

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

👨‍💻New website Jörg Heimbel has started blogging about Tibetan Buddhist art and related topics, publishing the first six informative posts. 🥳 Notes on Buddhist Art from the Himalayas artnotes.ngorpa.org #tibetanstudies #tibetanart #thangka #tibetansculpture #sakyapa

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

📽️ film release: གོང་དཀར་རྔ་འཆམ་ཆེན་མོ། The Gongkar Great Drum Dance (2023), a documentary film by Lobsang Damdul Now released on TibetTV @tibetonlinetv: youtu.be/watch?v=-e_vCslYZVc #tibetandance #drumdance #tibetanhistory #dzongpa #sakyapa

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

📕Follow-up post on new #OA publications on Western Tibet A comprehensive survey of rock art in Upper Tibet. John Bellezza. 2 vols. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Vol. 1: Eastern Byang thang Vol. 2: Central and Western Byang thang Download: tibetarchaeology.com/books #tibetanstudies

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

📕 Two new online #OA publications by Roberto Vitali (Dharamsala: Mutag Books, 2024) 👏 1. Essays on the History of Tibet 2. Early bKa' brgyud pa Masters on the "Upper side" (1191-1344) PDFs available at vitali-tibet.com #tibetanstudies #tibetanhistory #kagyupa #ngari

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 08/07/2024

Today: New Findings on the Origins and Style of the Mkhyen lugs School of Tibetan Painting, Guest Lecture in Indology and Tibetology at the @LMU_Muenchen #tibetanart #khyenri #khyenluk #thangka #lamdre #sakyapa

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

🎙️ talk as part of a recent @TibetMuseum exhibition ཇོ་བོ་ཝ་ཏི་བཟང་པོ་དང་འབྲེལ་རྟེན་ཆོས་རྫས་ཁག་ཅིག་ངོ་སྤྲོད། On ancient artefacts & texts related to the Jo bo Wa ti bzang po statue & temple at #Kyirong (sKyid grong) Ven. Thupten Ngawang (Dzongkar Choede) youtu.be/yHEmk2bDIcM

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༄༅། །ཇོ་བོ་ཝ་ཏི་བཟང་པོ་དང་འབྲེལ་རྟེན་ཆོས་རྫས་ཁག་ཅིག་ངོ་སྤྲོད།

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

🥳#OutNow The result of years of researching, collecting & great teamwork! གོང་དཀར་ལམ་འབྲས་བླ་བརྒྱུད། མཁྱེན་ལུགས་ཀྱི་སྒྱུ་རྩལ་དུ་ཤར་བ། The Gongkar Lamdre: Masters in Khyenluk Style. Dehradun: Gongkar Choede, 2024. 275 pp. #tibetanart #khyenri #thangka #lamdre #sakyapa #dzongpa

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

ཊིན་ཊིན། ལེའུ་གཉིས་པ། གསེར་གྱི་སྡེར་མོ་ཅན་གྱི་སྡིག་སྲིན། 📽️The 2nd episode of The Adventures of Tintin has been dubbed into Tibetan. It will be released tomorrow, Children's Day, 14 November 2023, by Tibetanlipz: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v4r6zv9zQ4 #tibetanlanguage #tibetanmovie #tintin

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Congrats!🤖The rig nus revolution has just begun! View the event's live stream: t.co/tqDcBL0UUG or check out @Monlam_AI yourself: t.co/9m5V363Gv6 - Tib.-Eng. translation vice versa - speech-to-text - text-to-speech conversion - OCR #tibetanDH #tibetancomputing t.co/tzEM4zPN1R

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

📝A friend's fb post on Kelsang Lhamo's Biography of E. Gene Smith, the founder of TBRC @KeepWisdomAlive འཇམ་དབྱངས་འཇིན་སི་མིད་ཀྱི་རྣམ་ཐར་པདྨ་དཀར་པོ། དྷཱི་པར་སྐྲུན་ཁང་།, 2023 'Jam dbyangs 'jin si mid kyi rnam thar padma dkar po t.co/0uqWoDKWJ5 #tibetanliterature

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 09/06/2023

🎉Entry no. 6000🎉features an obscure treatise: བཀའ་བསྡུ་ལྔ་པ་མཐའ་བྲལ་དབུ་མ་ཆེན་པོའི་གྲུབ་མཐའ་རབ་གསལ། The 5th Council (bKa' bsdu lnga pa) written by the monk 'Jam dpal grags pa, a disciple of Ma ti paṇ chen & Byang chub seng ge of Jonang #jonangpa #sakyapa #tibetanliterature

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 03/04/2023

...in the mountains of Tibet. @poetry4kids མི་རྒོད། #yeti

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 02/04/2023

📷movie: Tukdam: Between Worlds ཐུགས་དམ། post-mortem meditation state #tukdam Screening over Zoom & Vimeo (register below) 🗓️Wed, April 14th, 6-8:30pm CEST twitter.com/MindandLifeEU/status/16…

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 04/02/2023

📕 upcoming publication by @vajra_books A Concise History of the Glorious Sakyapa School by Chogye Trichen Rinpoche. Translated by David Jackson. Kathmandu, Nepal: Vajra Publications. #tibetanstudies #tibetantranslation #tibetanhistory #sakyapa #tsharpa

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 30/01/2023

new 📕: བོད་དང་ཁུ་ནུ་བར་གྱི་འབྲེལ་བའི་སྐོར། Bod dang khu nu bar gyi 'brel ba'i bgro gleng tshogs 'du'i gsung bshad dang dpyad rtsom phyogs bsgrigs. Dharamsala: Tibet Policy Institute, CTA, 2022. #tibetanstudies #tibetanhistory #ngari #khunu #spiti #westerntibet #westernhimalaya

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 29/01/2023

📨in yesterday's postbox: • རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་རང་དབང་། བོད་ཀྱི་གྲོས་ཚོགས་དང་སྲིད་བྱུས་ཉམས་ཞིབ་ཁང་། 2009. Translation of Gandhi's Hind Swaraj • ཞི་བའི་འཐབ་རྩོད་ལ་ནུས་པ་ཐོན་ཚུལ། 2014. Translation of Gene Sharp's How nonviolent struggle works #nonviolence #ahimsa #tibetantranslation

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 11/01/2023

🎙️#TibetanStudiesTalks Tibetan & Himalayan Studies Lecture Series of the Central Asian Seminar @HumboldtUni Today's talk: Himalayan bronzes and epigraphy: from early collections to modern fakes by Yannick Laurent t.co/YAgeSHKbGw t.co/3WhulEXnA6

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 17/12/2022

Early Lamdre masters from a set of 84 mahāsiddha paintings from the Lhakang Chenmo of #Sakya, arranged by A mes zhabs, preserved at the American Museum of Natural History @AMNH 🖼️available at @HAR_Inc: t.co/bV5wsjx6Az #tibetanart #thangka #sakyapa #mahasiddha #lamdre

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · 17/12/2022

🎙️ new podcasts: Check out the latest podcasts by the Tibetan Graduates Studies Seminar (TGSS) at the @OrientStudiesOx, moderated by @daniel_wojahn URL: podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/tibetan-gr… #TibetanStudiesTalks

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