Welcoming Dagmar Schwerk to UBC
The Himalaya Program is delighted to welcome Dagmar Schwerk to UBC as the Khyentse Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Tibetan Buddhist Studies. She will be teaching in the Department of Asian Studies. While at UBC, she will turn her doctoral thesis into a monograph (title: A Timely Message from the Cave: The Mahāmudrā Doctrine and Intellectual Agenda of […]
Student recording of Tibetan folk song “Samling Gompa” for 2018 Tibetan language course
In the latter section of our Tibetan language courses offered in May, students visited UBC’s CiTR radio station to record the Tibetan folk song Samling Gompa. This also coincided with CiTR’s Asian Heritage Month. Listen below, and a special thanks to Alex de Boer, a 2017 alumna of our Tibetan summer language course and UBC […]