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College For Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarah
The College for Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarah (CHTS, Sarah) (Tibetan བོད་ཀྱི་མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གཉེར་ཁང་, Wylie: bod kyi mtho rim slob gnyar khang) is an advanced Tibetan studies college founded in 1991 by the late Gen Lobsang Gyatso la under the guidance of and with funding provided by the 14th Dalai Lama. The College is a branch of Institute of Buddhist Dialectics (IBD) based in McLeod Ganj McLeod Ganj, also spelt McLeodganj, (pronounced ''Mc-loud-gunj'') is a suburb of Dharamshala in the Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh, India. It is known as "Little Lhasa" or "Dhasa" (a short form of Dharamshala used mainly by Tibetans) because ..., Dharamshala, India. References {{reflist External links Official website of CHTS, Sarah Education in Dharamshala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
College For Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarah
The College for Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarah (CHTS, Sarah) (Tibetan བོད་ཀྱི་མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གཉེར་ཁང་, Wylie: bod kyi mtho rim slob gnyar khang) is an advanced Tibetan studies college founded in 1991 by the late Gen Lobsang Gyatso la under the guidance of and with funding provided by the 14th Dalai Lama. The College is a branch of Institute of Buddhist Dialectics (IBD) based in McLeod Ganj McLeod Ganj, also spelt McLeodganj, (pronounced ''Mc-loud-gunj'') is a suburb of Dharamshala in the Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh, India. It is known as "Little Lhasa" or "Dhasa" (a short form of Dharamshala used mainly by Tibetans) because ..., Dharamshala, India. References {{reflist External links Official website of CHTS, Sarah Education in Dharamshala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lobsang Gyatso (monk)
Lobsang Gyatso (1928–1997) was a Tibetan monk who founded the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in Delhi, India. Biography Lobsang Gyatso was born in Tibet in the area of Kham in 1928. He became monk at the age of 11 and studied at Drepung monastery. During the 1959 Tibetan uprising he fled Tibet as part of the Tibetan Exile Community in India. He founded in 1973 the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in Dharamsala and in 1991 the College for Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarah, two non-profit educational institutions. He is the author of several books in Tibetan that were translated in several languages. Death On February 4, 1997, the principal of the Buddhist School of Dialectics, Geshe Lobsang Gyatso was murdered in Dharmasala, along with two of his students. David Kay notes "The subsequent investigation by the Indian police linked the murders to the Dorje Shugden faction of the exiled Tibetan community." In June 2007, The Times reported that Interpol had issued a Red n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
14th Dalai Lama
The 14th Dalai Lama (spiritual name Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, known as Tenzin Gyatso (Tibetan: བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: ''bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho''); né Lhamo Thondup), known as Gyalwa Rinpoche to the Tibetan people, is the current Dalai Lama. He is the highest spiritual leader and former head of the country of Tibet. He was born on 6 July 1935, or in the Tibetan calendar, in the Wood-Pig Year, 5th month, 5th day. He is considered a living Bodhisattva, specifically, an emanation of Avalokiteśvara in Sanskrit and Chenrezig in Tibetan. He is also the leader and a monk of the Gelug school, the newest school of Tibetan Buddhism, formally headed by the Ganden Tripa. The central government of Tibet, the Ganden Phodrang, invested the Dalai Lama with temporal duties until his exile in 1959. The 14th Dalai Lama was born to a farming family in Taktser (Hongya Village), in the traditional Tibetan region of Amdo (administra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Institute Of Buddhist Dialectics
An institute is an organisational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations (research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body. In some countries, institutes can be part of a university or other institutions of higher education, either as a group of departments or an autonomous educational institution without a traditional university status such as a "university institute" (see Institute of Technology). In some countries, such as South Korea and India, private schools are sometimes referred to as institutes, and in Spain, secondary schools are referred to as institutes. Historically, in some countries institutes were educational units imparting vocational training and often incorporating libraries, also known as mechanics' institutes. The word "institute" comes from a Latin word ''institutum'' meaning "facility" or "habit"; from ''instituere'' meaning "build", "create", "raise" or "educate". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McLeod Ganj
McLeod Ganj, also spelt McLeodganj, (pronounced ''Mc-loud-gunj'') is a suburb of Dharamshala in the Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh, India. It is known as "Little Lhasa" or "Dhasa" (a short form of Dharamshala used mainly by Tibetans) because of its large population of Tibetans. The Tibetan government-in-exile is headquartered in McLeod Ganj. Etymology McLeod Ganj was named after Sir Donald Friell McLeod, a Lieutenant Governor of Punjab; the suffix ''ganj'' is a common Persian word used for "neighbourhood".Dharamshala '''', v. 11, p. 301. History In March 1850, the area was annexed by th ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
