Grey Earth: Dwelling into the Historical and Philosophical Nuances of Sakya School of Tibetan Buddhism.

A lecture by Khenpo Ngawang Tenzin

10 June 5pm BST

The lecture will be streamed on our YouTube page.

For a Zoom link to attend the lecture and ask questions (limited spaces), please contact steven.egan@ocbs.org

Through the lens of a Sakyapa perspective, our speaker will be broadly sharing his knowledge on the key aspects of Sakya school that determines its unique characteristic. Here, he will be briefing about some preliminary information related to both philosophical and historical themes, rooted in sutras and tantras, that played a role in distinguishing the Sakya school.

Venerable. Ngawang Tenzin is originally from Mustang, a Himalayan region in Nepal and trained in Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism for more than twenty years. He completed his traditional monastic shedra studies from the Sakya College (founded by H.H Sakya Gongma Trichen Rinpoche and Khenchen Appey Rinpoche) in Dehradun, India, in 2010. There, he studied under the tutelage of Ven. Khenchen Sonam Gyatso.

Since graduating, he has been involved with the International Buddhist Academy (IBA) Kathmandu, as a resident teacher for non-Tibetan speakers. His works also focus on doing reviews of publications in progress, oral translations-both simultaneous and alternative; as well as written translations, from Tibetan into English and Nepali and vice versa. He has the opportunity to translate for the heads of Sakya school, such as His Holiness the 41st and 42nd Sakya Gongma Rinpoches, as well as the heads of Ngor-sub tradition of Sakya school.

He is the Oxford Tibetan Buddhist Visitor at the University of Oxford for this year.