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The History, Role & Re-emergence of Tibetan Buddhist Encampments – Khenpo Tsultrim Lodroe

The History, Role & Re-emergence of Tibetan Buddhist Encampments

A talk by Khenpo Tsultrim Lodroe (Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, Serta, Sichuan)

Registration is required: https://goo.gl/oXXj98

Khenpo Tsultrim Lodroe (མཁན་ཆེན་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་བློ་གྲོས།) is the Khenpo or Abbot of Larung Gar (Wuming) Buddhist Institute in Serta (Sichuan), one of the largest monastic institutions in the world. He is the leading figure in Buddhist approaches to social and environmental development in Tibetan areas today and leader in initiatives inside Tibet about education, language issues, the environment, public health, HIV/AIDS awareness and vegetarianism, as well as a highly regarded writer in Tibetan and Chinese on Buddhist philosophy.

Contact: The Modern Tibetan Studies Program at moderntibet@gmail.com or rjb58@columbia.edu

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Dominique Townsend

Dominique Townsend

Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Department of Religion

Office: 480 Claremont Ave Ste, Suite 103, MC 9610, New York NY
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 11:00am – 1:00pm and by appointment
Phone: 212-853-5640
Email: dt80@columbia.edu

Background
Dominique Townsend is a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism whose research combines historical and literary methods. Her interests include Tibetan Buddhist cultural production, poetry, aesthetics, dreams, gender, and translation. Her research is rooted primarily in Classical Tibetan texts, with an emphasis on the seventeenth-twentieth centuries. She teaches courses on Tibetan Buddhism and history, Asian humanities, poetics, new media, dreaming, and Buddhist approaches to death and dying. Before joining the faculty at Columbia in July 2024, she was Associate Professor of Religion at Bard College, and prior to that she served as Head of Interpretation at the Rubin Museum of Art.
Research Interests

Currently Townsend’s research is focused on a book about dreams and dreaming in Tibetan Buddhism, All this is Dreamlike, forthcoming from Columbia University Press. Her previous books include A Buddhist Sensibility (Columbia University Press, 2021), and the co-edited, Longing to Awaken, (University of Virginia Press, 2024). She has also published a book of poems and a children’s book.