Congratulations go out to Benjamin Collet-Cassart, who successfully defended his Master of Arts Thesis! The Generic Commentaries on Development Stage in the 18th and 19th Centuries A.D.A Study and Translation of Kunkhyen Tenpe Nyima’s “Compendium of Key Instructions”. Benjamin’s dissertation supervisor was Dr. Andreas Doctor (Ph.D., University of Calgary) and the external examiner was Dr. […]
Month: July 2011
While studying Nāgārjuna one comes to the realization that the prasaṅga reasoning he used was not only to refute the philosophical views that existed at his time, but to provide his readers with the tool to deconstruct any belief system or dogma they tend to grasp at spontaneously(the cause of suffering-second Noble truth). Just after […]
We’d like to offer our heartfelt congratulations to Franziska Oertle from Switzerland, who successfully defended her MA Thesis: Sum Cu Pa and rTags Kyi ‘Jug Pa, A Drop From the Ocean; Introduction to Indigenous Tibetan Grammar through anInsider’s Perspective, on 30th May 2011. Franziska’s supervisor was Dr. David V. Fiordalis PhD (University of Michigan), who is a […]