Postdoctoral Fellow | Society of Fellows, Dartmouth College
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Tibetan Language | བོད་སྐད་དང་བོད་ཡིག།
From 2014 to 2017 I studied Tibetan language (Standard Tibetan / Central Tibetan) at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives Center for Tibetan Studies in Dharamsala, Northern India under Nyima Dekyi, Pema Khandro, Acharya Ani Norzon, and Dr. Chok Tenzin Monlam. Tibetic languages belong to the Sino-Tibetan language family and use an Indic scrip specifically developed for the purpose of codifying Buddhist texts.
One of the reasons I wanted to study Tibetan was to gain first-hand access to the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist philosophical tradition. Many Tibetan philosophical texts (including Tibetan translations of non-extant Sanskrit texts) have not been translated into English or, when translated, heavily reflect the interpretive choices of the translator. Both my Bachelor's and Master's theses focused on Indian and Tibetan philosophical perspectives and the insights they provide to contemporary discussions in Western philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and/or epistemology.
བོད་ཀྱི་དམངས་ཁྲོད་སྒྲུང་གཏམ། Tibetan Folktales
In 2019 LTWA published a book of Tibetan Folk Tales that I co-translated with my friend and teacher, Nyima Dekyi la. The book is designed to help students of Tibetan language make the transition from early stages of study to working with more complex Tibetan literary works.
