A SPECIAL BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY CLASS

The LTWA is happy to announce to have a special eight-day Buddhist philosophy class for Tibetans in general and especially for the young CTA and NGO staff members around Gangchen Kyishong from February 19 to February 28 2014. Geshe Lhakdor will teach from the Eight Points of Mind Training. There will also be opportunity for you to ask question and clarify your doubts. The teaching will be in Tibetan and there will be no translation. Those who are interested kindly register at the office.

Teacher:  Geshe Lhakdor

Text: The Seven Points of Mind Training

Date: 19-28 February 2014

Time: 5:30 pm-6:30 pm 

Venue:  LTWA Buddhist philosophy classroom

བོད་ཀྱི་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་གི་ནང་ཆོས་འཛིན་གྲྭའི་གསལ་བསྒྲགས།

བོད་ཀྱི་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་ནས་སྤྱིར་རྒྱ་ཆེ་མང་ཚོགས་དང་སྒོས་སུ་བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་དང་གངས་སྐྱིད་གཡས་གཡོན་དུ་ཡོད་པའི་གཞུང་འབྲེལ་མིན་པའི་ཚོགས་པའི་ནང་ཕྱག་ལས་གནང་བཞིན་པའི་ན་གཞོན་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ནང་ཆོས་གོ་རྟོགས་གོང་མཐོར་ཡོང་སླད། སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༡༤ ཟླ་ ༢ ཚེས་ ༡༩ ནས་ ཟླ་ ༢ ཚེས་ ༢༨ བར་ཏེ་ཉིན་གྲངས་བརྒྱད་རིང་དགེ་བཤེས་ལྷག་རྡོར་མཆོག་གིས་བློ་སྦྱོང་དོན་བདུན་མའི་འགྲེལ་བ་བོད་སྐད་ཐོག་སློབ་ཁྲིད་གནང་རྒྱུ་དང་། དོ་བདག་སོ་སོ་ནས་དྲི་ལན་དང་དོགས་གཅོད་གནང་རྒྱུའི་གོ་སྐབས་ཡོད་པས་དོན་གཉེར་ཅན་རྣམས་ནས་འདི་གའི་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་ལས་ཁུངས་སུ་མིང་ཐོ་དེབ་སྐྱེལ་གནང་དགོས་པའི་གསལ་བསྒྲགས་སུ།། 

དགེ་རྒན།  དགེ་བཤེས་ལྷག་རྡོར།

སློབ་ཚན། བློ་སྦྱོང་དོན་བདུན་མ།

ཟླ་ཚེས། སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༡༤ ཟླ་ ༢ ཚེས་ ༡༩ ནས་ ༢༨ བར།

དུས་ཚོད།  དགོང་དྲོའི་ཆུ་ཚོད་ ༥།༣༠ ནས་ ༦།༣༠ བར། 

ཚོགས་ཁང༌།  བོད་ཀྱི་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་གི་ནང་ཆོས་འཛིན་ཁང་། 

ཉམས་ཞིབ་དང་རྩོམ་སྒྱུར་སྡེ་ཚན་ནས་ཕྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༡༤ ཟླ་བ་ ༡ ཚེས་ ༡༥ ཉིན་གསལ་བསྒྲགས་སུ།། 

Department functions and Production

One of the main aims and objectives of LTWA when it was founded in 1972 was to compile, translate, print and publish books and manuscripts on all aspects of Tibetan culture, history, literature, philosophy, traditional science etc. under the LTWA logo. In fulfillment of this objective, the English Publication Department started to function in 1973. Since its inception, the department has been actively engaged in publication activities concerning Buddhist philosophy and other aspects of Tibetan culture.

This department functions as a publishing house and engages itself in all the processes involved in the production of a book -- from data entry, making the layout, formatting, cover designing and finally producing a final copy for the printing press.

So far this department has published 567 titles including the journals. BOOKS:

English Language: 151 titles with main subjects on Buddhist philosophy, archaeology, history, politics, medicine, language and folk culture and others related with Tibetan culture.
Tibetan Language: 227 titles with main subjects on Buddhist philosophy, collected works of eminent Tibetan masters, scholars, saints; biographies, epic stories, archaeology, history, politics, medicine, language and folk culture and others related with Tibetan culture. These are printed in book format and traditional Tibetan Pecha format.
Hindi Language: 6 titles on Buddhism and literature.
JOURNALS:

1. Tibet Journal: This International quarterly journal is published in English. To date 143 issues (upto Vol XXIV No 1) have been published.
2. Tam Tsog: This bi-annual journal is published in Tibetan and to date 32 issues have been published.
3. Science Journal: This journal is published in Tibetan and to date 13 issues have been published. 4.Botvani: This journal is publisHed in Hindi and to date 1 issue has been published.

Many of these publications have been translated into various foreign languages such as Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Hungarian, Finnish, Japanese, Korean and Chinese language. To date, more than 78 titles have been published in these languages. This department also deals with the copyright administration, preparation of Agreements and Contracts between authors and publishers, provision of ISBN numbers, etc. Publications are distributed worldwide by our Delhi-based distributor M/s Paljor Publications (website www.paljorpublications.com). They are also available at the library’s sales counter located within the LTWA building.

Library

The primary objectives of the LTWA are to provide a comprehensive cultural resource centre and to promote an environment that encourages research and an exchange of knowledge between scholars and students. These factors are of the utmost importance in a contemporary world shaped by political and spiritual confusion. In trying to fulfill its objectives, the Library's priorities include:

• Acquiring and conserving Tibetan manuscripts, books, artifacts and works of art.
• Providing access to books, manuscripts and reference works (in Tibetan as well as in foreign languages) in study areas within the Library.
• Compiling bibliographies and documentation of Library holdings and related literature available worldwide.
• Providing copies and prints of Library holdings and acting as a reference centre for such source materials.
• Publishing books and manuscripts under the Library imprint.
• Supporting research and study of the Tibetan language, both classical and modern.

SUB-SECTIONS

Foreign Language Reference Library
The FLRL has a collection of more than 13,000 volumes predominantly dealing with language, philosophy, arts and culture, medicine, geography, travel, history and the politics of Tibet and the Himalayan [...]

Tibetan Books & Manuscripts Library
The Tibetan book and manuscript collection holds more than 100,000 titles in the form of manuscripts, books, xylographs, documents and illuminated scriptures. The collections include centuries old manuscripts, documents and [...]

Publications
One of the main aims and objectives of LTWA when it was founded in 1972 was to compile, translate, print and publish books and manuscripts on all aspects of Tibetan [...]

Tibetan Cultural Research
The Cultural Research and Publications Department publish and distribute a wide range of titles concerning Tibetan studies. Each year, in co-operation with the library’s research and translation arm, the department [...]

Tibetan Books & Manuscripts Library

The Tibetan book and manuscript collection holds more than 100,000 titles in the form of manuscripts, books, xylographs, documents and illuminated scriptures. The collections include centuries old manuscripts, documents and contemporary publications. Parts of the collection are open to the public, while access to others is restricted to accredited scholars and researchers. Study areas are provided in the respective wings housing each collection. Research guidance is available from resident scholars. General information about the libraries is available at the reception desk.

New titles are added each year ranging from rare and original manuscripts to contemporary reprints in book form including those donated by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The entire collection is also being catalogued in a computer database in the Tibetan language, which will be available to the public. This makes it the only collection of its kind catalogued by computer in Tibetan. Library users can gain access to any part of the collections through the online cataloguing system

RELEVANT CONTACTS

Sonam Topgyal ( Acting Librarian (Head) : Contact

QUICK STATS

Data collected in 2009:

• Over 100,000 manuscripts and documents in Tibetan.
• Special holdings including several handwritten editions of the Kangyur and Tengyur.

DOWNLOADS

Manuscript Library Report ENG
Manuscript Library Report TIB

ARTICLES

We thank Mr. R. Byambaa for his Tibetan manuscript donation

• Collected works (gsung 'bum) of blo bzang bzod pa Rgya mtsho (1878-1961) vol. I-III.M
• Collected works (gsung 'bum) of bla ma dka' bcu Phyag rdor skyab dpal bzang po (1868-1934) vol. I-III.
• Collected works (gsung 'bum) of khal kha blo bzang bstan 'dzin Rgyal mtshan (1639-1703) vol. I-IV.
• Collected works (gsung 'bum) of Aer te ni jo bo'i bla ma dkon mchog Rgyal mtshan (1868-1934) vol. I.

Departments

The Library is organised into ten distinct departments:

Administration

LTWA is an autonomous body under the direct supervision of H.H. the Dalai Lama.

Tibetan Books & Manuscripts Library

The Library currently has a holding of about 100,000 manuscripts and documents in Tibetan.

Foreign Language Reference Library

Our Foreign Language Library comprises more than 11,000 books in English and other foreign languages dealing with Buddhism and Tibet related affairs.

Oral History

We have published more than 26 series of oral accounts in book form.

Audio/Visual Archive

Our holdings have more than 27,000 hours of audio and video recordings of Tibet or Tibetan related subjects. In addition we have more than 6,000 photographic archives and documents.

Research and Translation

We are actively involved in research, translation and education that includes conducting courses in Buddhist philosophy, Tibetan language and culture.

Tibetan Cultural Research

This department focuses on investigating and producing materials related to all aspects of Tibetan culture.

Museum

Our museum houses over 1,000 old and rare statues, Thangkas (traditional scroll paintings) and other artefacts.

Publications

We have published over 250 titles in English and 230 title in Tibetan and Hindi, concerning Buddhist philosophy and other aspects of Tibetan culture, including the quarterly scholarly journal The Tibet Journal, and The Tibetan Medicine Series.

Science Department

This unique program fosters education in modern science in monastic institutes, and translating modern science terms and books into Tibetan as envisioned by His Holiness.