THI Faculty and Student News
The Tibet Himalaya Initiative is delighted to announce the publication of Living Treasure: Buddhist and Tibetan Studies in Honor of Janet Gyatso, a set of 29 essays celebrating the life and research of Janet
CU Boulder Alumnus Sonam Nyenda (MA in Religious Studies, 2015) recently founded the Bhutan & Himalaya Research Centre at Royal University of Bhutan (RUB). He is faculty at the College for Language and Cultural Studies (CLSC) in Takse,
This photo essay captures the dreams and realities surrounding artificial glaciers in Ladakh. Informed by three months of preliminary research, it presents some visual evidence to accompany the authors’ reflections while on
Doctoral student in ethnomusicology, Mason Brown, shares vignettes of his dissertaton fieldwork on Tibetan folk music in Nepal.Visit the full photo essay, "Folk Songs in Nubri" here.
THI Visiting Scholar, Andrew Grant, shares his experiences between 2010-2017 at the Tibetan festival of Lurol in the village of Sadjye (Sa dkyel ས་དཀྱིལ) near to the heart of Rebgong (རེབ་ཀོང་།) in Qinghai
Rupak Shrestha, PhD student in Geography, was awarded a National Science Foundation - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (DDRI) grant by the Geography and Spatial Sciences Program. The award will support his dissertation research project
We would like to congratulate our THI graduate students on their graduation from the University of Colorado Boulder.Sierra Gladfelter graduated with a MA in Geography. Her thesis title is "Training Rivers, Training People: Interrogating the making
A library exhibit on "Tantric Ritual in Tibetan Buddhism" opened Wednesday, April 12 on the third floor of Norlin Library, next to the entrance to the stacks. It features an image of Dorje Drolö based on a liturgy from the collected works of the
Ben Joffe, PhD Candidate in Anthropology at CU, recently published a book-length translation of Nida Chenagtsang's Mirror of Light: A Commentary on Yuthok's Ati Yoga (Sky Press).From Sky Press: Ati Yoga, literally meaning the ‘utmost yoga,’ is
