Dr. Holly Gayley hosted the Kayden Translation Symposium on a sunny fall afternoon at the Koenig Alumni Center. The symposium convened to discuss translations of Tibetan literary works by, about, and for Buddhist women. The seminar was made possible through the 2021 Kayden Translation Award for Inseparable Across Lifetimes: The Lives and Love Letters of the Visionary Couple Namtrul Rinpoche and Khandro Tāre Lhamo, translated by Holly Gayley.

Read more about the symposium here:
/tibethimalayainitiative/2021/10/24/kayden-translation-symposium-buddhist-women-and-literary-tibet-friday-october-22 
 

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We are delighted to welcome Dominique Townsend (Bard College) for a guest lecture on her new book, A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery (Columbia University Press, 2021). Her lecture, "Renouncing Attachment, Embracing Aesthetics: Cultural Production in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery,” will reflect on the question of how Tibetan Buddhist aesthetics — expressed through music, dance, incense, visual arts, and literature — work in relationship with Buddhist commitments to renunciation.

LECTURE IN PERSON: Thursday, October 21 at 4pm
British Studies Room, 5th Floor, Norlin Library on CU Boulder Campus

In person - masks required

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Holly Gayley, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, received a 2021 Kayden Translation Award for her book, . An inspiring and intimate tale set against the turmoil of recent Tibetan history, Inseparable across Lifetimes offers for the first time the translations of love letters between two modern Buddhist visionaries. The letters are poetic, affectionate, and prophetic, articulating a hopeful vision of renewal that drew on their past lives together and led to their twenty-year partnership. This couple played a significant role in restoring Buddhism in the region of Golok once China’s revolutionary fervor gave way to reform. Holly Gayley, who was given their correspondence by Namtrul Rinpoche himself, has translated their lives and letters in order to share their remarkable story with the world. 

The Kayden Translation Award at CU Boulder is given biennially in recognition of an outstanding creative or scholarly translation in the fields of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. The award was established to honor the memory of Eugene Kayden, a translator in his own right, and to promote the translation of texts that would help encourage the exchange of knowledge and research in a variety of fields.

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Please join us April 10 from 4:00 to 6:30 MDT for a symposium and book launch for Voices from Larung Gar: Shaping Tibetan Buddhism for the Twenty-First Century, an anthology edited by Dr. Holly Gayley. More information and registration details.

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