His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Address International Conference on Tibetan History and CultureThursday, 19 November 2009, 5:30 p.m.
New Delhi: Over 40
scholars from the United Kingdom, the United States, Europe and Asia
are meeting at the University of Delhi, India to explore the scale and
magnitude of Tibet’s history and culture.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama will give the valedictory address at the conference on 21 November.
The three-day “International Conference: Exploring Tibet’s History and Culture” will be held from 19 to 21 November at
the Academic Council Hall of the University’s Vice Regal Lodge. Dr.
Kapila Vatsayayan, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) is the chief
guest while Prof. Deepak Pental, Vice Chancellor of the University will
give the welcome address.
The
political history and status of Tibet is interpreted in different ways
by the Tibetans and Western writers, even the Chinese writers before
the fall of Manchu dynasty in 1912 and those of recent Chinese writers
after the fall of Manchu dynasty. Hence, the Tibetan studies have
become equally important and popular as of other civilizations of the
world in the last three decades.
Similarly,
Tibetan culture has attracted the interest and attention of many
scholars and researchers. Tibetans maintained unbroken cultural
interactions with India since from the 7th century. As a result of
which, the Tibetans have produced the largest number of translations of
Indian literature. Tibetan Tripitaka, known as Kagyur and Tangyur
preserves over five thousand titles translated from Indian languages,
mainly from Sanskrit, embracing treatises on grammar, poetry, rhetoric,
logic, politics and social ethics, medicine, astrology, chemistry, art
and iconography, biographies of saints and of course, Buddhism and
Buddhist philosophy. Most of the above mentioned Indian literatures
lost in its original form can be reconstructed from its Tibetan
translation.
The conference is jointly organised the University of Delhi and Central University for Tibetan Studies, Varanasi.
-Report filed by the Bureau of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in New Delhi
