[EAsiaUVa] ADVANCE ANNOUNCEMENT: Samten Karmay talk

[East Asia Center]

Hey all,

What follows is the info for a talk not mentioned on our EAC Lecture 
Series poster but intriguing nonetheless.

Samten Karmay (Director of Research, CNRS, Paris), "The Discovery of New 
Manuscripts of the Bon Tradition in Tibet", Wednesday, April 30, 4pm.

Location request: Byrd Seminar Room 318 in the Small Special Collections 
Library.

Samten G. Karmay is one of Tibet's foremost  scholars. Karmay was born 
in Amdo  Province and attended a local Bonpo monastery from ages eight 
to fourteen. He then followed a three-year course of  Dzogchen 
meditation at Kyangthang  Monastery. At twenty he obtained the Geshey 
degree and took further studies at Drepung. In 1959  he and his family 
left Tibet and  settled briefly in India. From 1961 to 1964, he was a 
visiting scholar at the School of Oriental and  African Studies, London, 
where he  earned an M. Phil. Degree for his thesis on Bon history and 
then his Ph.D. for his thesis on the origin and development of Dzogchen 
 in Tibetan Buddhist traditions. In 1980 he entered the National Centre 
of Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, where is Director of  Research in 
history and anthropology. In 1996 he was elected President of the 
International  Association of Tibetan Studies. He  has written a number 
of books on Tibetan religions, including a book on the Fifth Dalai  Lama.

Best,
Graham

-- 
Graham Odell
Graduate Assistant
East Asia Center
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