Tashi Tsering (tibetologist)
Tashi Tsering (Tibetan: བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཚེ་རིང་, Wylie: bKra-shis Tse-ring) also called Tashi Tsering Josayma; born in 1960,[1] is a Tibetan tibetologist, historian and writer.[2]
Biography[]
Tashi Tsering was born in 1960. He is a founding director of the Amnye Machen Institute. He is also affiliated with the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, and editor of several Tibetan journals, including the Journal of Tibet.[3]
Tashi Tsering studied at the Central School for Tibetans Dalhousie in northern India from 1963 to 1971. He studied the history of Tibet, Tibetan literature and Buddhism with , Dzogchen Khenpo and Rai Bahadur .
He also received teachings from the 14th Dalai Lama and other important teachers such as the 16th Karmapa, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, the 4th , the 4th and .
He was appointed consultant to the Namgyal Institute of Tibetology by its director, .
In 1979, along with the filmmaker Tenzing Sonam, late writer, , Thupten Samphel, Kesang Tenzin and Gyalpo Tsering, he founded the pioneering English-language Tibetan poetry journal, Lotus Fields.[4]
In the documentary (2005) about Gendun Chophel directed by , he is interviewed as an expert.
He compiled the longest calligraphy of Tibetan prayers, conducted by the calligrapher .[5]
He received several awards from the Tibetan community.
Publications[]
- (in English) The Life of Rev. G. Tharchin: Missionary and Pioneer, in (ed Jamyang Norbu), Christian missionaries and Tibet, (Lungta No 11) Amnye Machen Institute (Dharamsāla, India), 1998
- (in English) Avec Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy, The singing mask: echoes of Tibetan opera, Amnye Machen Institute, 2001
- (in English) Cosmogony and the origins, Amnye Machen Institute, Dharamsāla, India, 2004, OCLC 64578326
- (in English) Éditeur de Aspects of Tibetan History (ouvrage collectif : Tashi Tsering; Roberto Vitali; Dan Martin; Leonard W J van der Kuijp; Elliot Sperling), Amnye Machen Institute, 2001, OCLC 123271851
- (in English) Éditeur de Si-tu Paṇ-chen : his contribution and legacy (ouvrage collectif : Tashi Tsering; E Gene Smith; Elliot Sperling; Franz-Karl Ehrhard); Amnye Machen Institute, 2000, OCLC 123271849
- (in English) Yumtsho, Journal of Tibetan Women's Studies[6]
References[]
- ^ Tashi Tsering
- ^ , Lhasa: Streets with Memories, 2010, p. 133 : "The Dharamsala-based historian Tashi Tsering"
- ^ Institut Amnye Machen, About AMI Founding Directors Tashi Tsering Archived 2013-12-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Lauran R. Hartley, Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani, Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change, Duke University Press, 2008, ISBN 0822342774, p. 291
- ^ Jamyang Dorjee Chakrishar Archived 2012-07-10 at archive.today
- ^ Yumtsho Archived 2013-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
- Tibetologists
- Tibetan writers
- Tibetan historians
- 1960 births
- Living people