2023 Kathmandu Buddha-Nature Conference

བདེ་གཤེགས་སྙིང་པོའི་ཆོས་འཁོར།

The Buddha-Nature Conference

1-3 June 2023 · 8:30 Kathmandu Time

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The Buddha-Nature Conference
1-3 June 2023 · 8:30 Kathmandu Time

བོད་བརྒྱུད་ནང་བསྟན་ཆོས་ལུགས་རིས་མེད་ཀྱི་བདེ་གཤེགས་སྙིང་པོའི་དགོངས་བཞེད་དང་ཉམས་བཞེས་སྐོར་བགྲོ་གླེང་།

Discussing Buddha-Nature Theory and Practice in Tibetan Buddhist Traditions

June 1-3, 2023

Tsadra Foundation will host a three-day symposium for scholars and monastics of Tibetan Buddhist traditions at Shechen Monastery in Kathmandu, June 1-3. This special event will bring together representatives of different Tibetan Buddhist traditions to share their views on buddha-nature and related texts, theories, and practices. As of today we have 18 speakers from across the Himalayas, including representatives from different Geluk, Nyingma, Kagyu, and Sakya institutes, as well Jonang.

The event will be hosted at Shechen Monastery, entirely in the Tibetan language. We will record each presentation and hope to provide some translation into English in the future, but the majority of the content will be in the Tibetan language. If you are living or studying in Kathmandu, or are traveling through, please feel free to attend!

Sessions will also be live-streamed on Zoom.

Sessions will start at 8:30 AM Kathmandu Local Time at the main hall at Shechen.

Details will be updated here as soon as they are available.

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Geluk - The Geluk tradition traces its origin to Tsongkhapa, who propagated a modified version of the Kadampa lojong and lamrim teachings. It is the dominant tradition of Tibet, having established its control of the government under the figure of the Dalai Lama. Tib. དགེ་ལུགས་

Nyingma - The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century. Tib. རྙིང་མ་

Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib. བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་

Sakya - The Sakya tradition developed in the eleventh century in the Khön family of Tsang, which maintained an imperial-era lineage of Vajrakīla and which adopted a new teaching from India known as Lamdre. Tib. ས་སྐྱ་

Jonang - The Jonang tradition was established by Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen, a thirteenth-century Sakya monk famous for his Zhentong teachings. The Jonang teachings and monasteries were suppressed in Tibet in the seventeenth century but survived in Amdo. Tib. ཇོ་ནང་