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We are deeply saddened to announce that our colleague and friend, Michael Hee Ium, passed away on April 9, 2025.

On April 23, Zhouyang Ma will discuss Tibetan Buddhist Scholasticism through the lens of Tangut texts in a lecture at the University of Hong Kong.

"Weaving the Yellow Hat": Michael Ium will be presenting at the IKGA Research Colloquium on April 1st on the construction of the dGe lugs tradition.

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.