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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · Jun 6

📕 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 · May 26

🎙️ #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 · May 26

📰 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 · Apr 10

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 · Mar 14

‪📰 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 · Jan 17

🎦 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

ཆོས་སྡེ་ཆེན་པོ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོར་མཇལ་ཁ་སྩལ་བ།

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

youtu.be

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · Dec 30

📕 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 · Dec 19

Table of contents; text translated up to Guoshi Mahātmā Sangpo Pal (i.e. bDag nyid chen po bZang po dpal, 1262-1324)

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · Dec 19

📕 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 · Dec 15

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 · Dec 8

🗿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 · Dec 3

📚 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 · Dec 2

📘 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 · Dec 2

Thanks, I am glad to be in good company again. ☺️

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · Dec 1

📰 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 · Dec 1

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-...

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

github.com

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · Dec 1

🧾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. https://t.co/rTdFQys2dB #tibetanart #sakyapa

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · Dec 1

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

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · Dec 1

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

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · Dec 1

📕#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: https://t.co/dvItqqwUdR

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sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · Dec 1

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

sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · Dec 1

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

sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · Dec 1

1. Lam 'bras rgyud gsum gyi bka' khrid/
2. rGyud bla ma'i bka' khrid/
3. Rang nyid kyi mi tshe'i byung ba brjod pa kun gsal 'phrul gyi me long /
4. Glo bo'i lo rgyus mol ba/
5. Lam 'bras snang gsum gyi bka' khrid/ (reprint) #lamdre #tibetanbiography #uttaratantra #uppermustang

sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social · Dec 1

📚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 · Dec 1

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