Tibetan language course image with Mark, Nima, and Gerry.

Tibetan Language Courses starting in September

LAN 500 Beginning Colloquial Tibetan (continued)

This course is a continuation of the 2024  Summer Institute intermediate colloquial Tibetan course.

This class is oriented toward students who have no experience or little experience with colloquial Tibetan. During the Fall Session, I will introduce the eight categories of Tibetan letters, how to spell Tibetan words aloud, pronounce Tibetan letters and words, and read and write Tibetan. We will also introduce some useful phrases and sentences.

During the Summer Institute, we finished the first 3 lessons.

  • Thirty Consonants
  • Four Vowels
  • Ten suffixes

To register, please contact Nima Bhuti at nbhuti.tibetanlesson1@gmail.com

PREREQUISITE:

Although this is a continuing course from the 2024 Summer Institute, you are welcome to take this course if you have not taken the previous one, but please contact Nima Bhuti first at nbhuti.tibetanlesson1@gmail.com if you have questions about your level.

Students should know:

1. The equivalent of the only first 3 chapters of Tibetan Language for Daily Use, A Textbook for Beginners.
1. Thirty Consonants.
2. Four Vowels
3. Ten Suffixes
If you are interested to learn but have not studied the first 3 chapters, you are invited to take classes privately until lesson 3 and then continue with the continuing student group.

Time and Dates coming soon

COST:

$200

Nitartha’s Payment Plan and Financial Assistance (PPFA) program is funded by fellow students to support those who would not be able to attend the Institute’s courses without this assistance. To request aid, please fill out the PPFA application before you register for the course.

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Nima Bhuti

Nima Bhuti was born in Bhutan, where she completed her primary education. She completed her secondary and high school education at the Central School for Tibetan in India. She then studied Tibetan Buddhism, grammar, history and poetry for two years at the Norbuling Higher Tibetan Studies and Higher Tibetan Studies at Sarah College. Ms. Bhuti is certified in Teaching Tibetan as a Second Language, and received the Best Teacher of the Year Certificate in 2017. She taught Tibetan online at Esukhia from 2013 to 2019, and has continued to teach since then independently and with Nitartha Institute.

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Reading Tibetan Buddhist Literature (LAN 530 continued)

We will be reading a contemporary commentary on Gampopa’s Precious Garland of the Supreme by the current Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche called The Necklace of Excellent Explanations that Clarify the Supreme Path: A Commentary on [Gampopa’s] Precious Garland of the Supreme Path. In his text, which is a short pamphlet of aphorisms, Gampopa joins the two traditions or lineages—the Kadampa lineage from Atisa and the Mahamudra lineage from Naropa and Maitripa– into a single concise presentation.

Starting Date:  September 23rd

Days and times: Tuesdays 7-8:30  Pacific Time

REGISTRATION: If you are interested in attending this course, please contact Mark Seibold at mseibold@nitarthainstitute.org

LEARN WITH OUR RENOWNED FACULTY

Buddhist teacher, Mark Seibold teaching at Nitartha Institute.

Mark Seibold

Mark Seibold has been a student and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism since the early 1980’s. At the inivitation of Dzogchen Pönlop Rinpoche he joined the Nitartha faculty in 2005 with the instruction to create a Tibetan language track. In 2016 he was authorized to teach the Core Curricum as well. His current projects include a collaboration with Lama Tsöndrü Sangpo, a Nyingma Lama in the lineage of Chatral Rinpoche, on a translation of the Padma Khatang, a famous text attributed to Yeshe Tsogyal that chronicles the life, teachings and enlightened activity of Padmasambhava, as well as several projects related to Tibetan grammar.

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