Events

The Modern Tibetan Studies Program presents a discussion panel entitled "Where To From Here: Tibetan Studies after Gene Smith and Directions for the Future" with Discussion Panel with Alak Zenkar Thubten Nyima, Member of the Board, Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center; Gray Tuttle, Assistant Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, Columbia University; Janet Gyatso, Professor of Buddhist Studies, Harvard University; Kurtis Schaeffer, Professor in the History of Religions, University of Virginia; Leonard van der Kuijp, Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, Harvard University; Matthew Kapstein<, Professor of Buddhist Studies, University of Chicago, Directeur d'études, EPHE, Paris; Michael Sheehy, Senior Editor, Tibet Buddhist Resource Center; Pema Bhum, Director, Trace Foundation Latse Contemporary Tibetan Cultural Library; Sarah Jacoby, Assistant Professor of Religion, Northwestern University; Susan Meinheit, Tibetan Specialist, Library of Congress; Robert Thurman, Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, Columbia University.

Co-sponsored by the Khorlo Tibetan Studies Student Group.  No reservations required

Followed at 2 PM by the Memorial Service for Gene Smith at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, West 112th.  For more information, please contact genesmithdiscussion@yahoo.com.