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Zhouyang Ma's article "Two Early Biographical Accounts of Atiśa Preserved in Tangut" appeared in the Journal of the American Oriental Society.

On March 14, Zhouyang Ma will speak on the 1502 Tangut dhāraṇī pillars at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference 2025 in Columbus.

The TibSchol team wishes you a Happy New Year! All the best in the female wood snake year 2152!

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On Wednesday, January 22, Pascale Hugon will speak on "Filling the Gaps in the Early Tibetan Scholastic Corpus" in the KC lecture series at the Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship, Universität Hamburg.

A warm welcome to the newest member of the team, Dr. Michael Ium, who has joined TibSchol as a postdoctoral researcher!

On January 9, Jonathan Samuels will speak on "Tibetan monastic curricula: When did they first emerge?" at the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna.

On December 20, Zhouyang Ma will speak on Khyung Rin chen grags at Nagoya University.

Next week (November 10–11, 2024) the international workshop "藏传佛教的形成：对重要的文本、思想及世系的新见" [The Becoming of Tibetan Buddhism: New Insights on Influential Texts, Ideas, and Lineages] convened by Zhouyang Ma will take place at Tsinghua University, Beijing.

Save the date! On October 22, Prof. IUCHI Maho (Kyoto University) will give a lecture on the lineage of Kadampa monasteries at the IKGA (hybrid).