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Tashi Namgyal

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Ph.D. candidate in East Asian History at Penn State University. Interested in Tibet-Qing & Republican China relations; cultural encounters, Buddhist networks and literary traditions in East & Inner Asia. https://history.la.psu.edu/directory/tashi-namgyal/

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · Jul 24

The Dalai Lama, who just turned 90, writes in his memoir that he will reincarnate in the “free world.” But will his political, religious and moral power transfer with him?

Read @tshakya.bsky.social review of "Voice for the Voiceless" by the Dalai Lama: chinabooksreview.com/2025/07/24/d...

Who Will Be the Next Dalai Lama? | China Books Review

The Dalai Lama, who just turned 90, writes in his memoir that he will reincarnate in the “free world.” But will his political, religious and moral power transfer with him?

chinabooksreview.com

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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · Jul 25

Now available! This book challenges the idea that American and Chinese interests and values are incompatible. buff.ly/xY9iKEF

#USChinaRelations #GlobalVoices #China #InternationalRelations #PoliticalScience #ReadMore #ReadUP

Now Available: CHINESE ENCOUNTERS WITH AMERICA: JOURNEYS THAT SHAPED THE FUTURE OF CHINA, EDITED BY DEBORAH DAVIS AND TERRY LAUTZ. Includes the book's cover and a blurb by MARY BROWN BULLOCK. Save 20% with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu.

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Tashi Namgyal @tnamgyal.bsky.social · Jun 14

It's interesting that the first travel map of Tibet includes most parts of Kham and Amdo located in Chinese provinces but entirely omits the Ngari region.

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Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History @bcricciinstitute.bsky.social · May 6

Recent addition: Xu Zhenglin 許正林, Ming-Qing chuanjiaoshi dui Zhongguo wenhua de chuanbo 明清傳教士對中國文化的傳播 [The transmission of Chinese culture by missionaries in the Ming and Qing period] (Beijing: Zhongjiao wenhua chubanshe, 2023).

The cover of Xu Zhenglin 許正林, Ming-Qing chuanjiaoshi dui Zhongguo wenhua de chuanbo 明清傳教士對中國文化的傳播 [The transmission of Chinese culture by missionaries in the Ming and Qing period] (Beijing: Zhongjiao wenhua chubanshe, 2023).

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Tashi Namgyal @tnamgyal.bsky.social · Apr 23

On this World #Book Day, sharing a picture of one of my Tibetan books in traditional pecha format.

Content: Vol. 5 from the Collected Works of the 13th Dalai Lama (༧རྒྱལ་བ་ཐུབ་བསྟན་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་གསུང་འབུམ), reprinted by Library of Tibetan Works and Archives.
Digital version accessible via #BDRC. #Buddhism

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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · Apr 21

“His Holiness Pope Francis dedicated himself to the service of others, consistently revealing by his own actions how to live a simple, but meaningful life. The best tribute we can pay to him is to be a warm-hearted person, serving others wherever and in whatever way we can.”

~The Dalai Lama~

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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · Apr 15

Join Tsering Wangmo Dhompa for a book talk about THE POLITICS OF SORROW at 6:30 PM Wed, April 16 at Main Point Books. buff.ly/mcwtzlj

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, "The Politics of Sorrow"

Main Point Books welcomes Tsering Wangmo Dhompa and guest host Lisa Sewell

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Andrew Quintman @andrewquintman.bsky.social · Apr 10

Finally caught up on the season finale of The White Lotus. There's a lot to say about the representation of Buddhism, what it gets right and less right, but ultimately I think it hits as an evocation of samsara.

Reminded me of the frequently told story about the Buddha's disciple Kātyāyana:

Friendship and enmity, too, are far from everlasting. One day while the Arhat Katyayana was out on his alms-round he came across a man with a child on his lap. The man was eating a fish with great relish, and throwing stones at a bitch that was trying to get at the bones. What the master saw with his clairvoyance, however, was this. The fish had been the man's own father in that very lifetime, and the bitch had been his mother. An enemy he had killed in a past existence had been reborn as
his son, as the karmic repayment for the life the man had taken. Kätyayana

cried out: He eats his father's flesh, he beats his mother off,
He dandles on his lap the enemy that he killed;
The wife is gnawing at her husband's bones.
I laugh to see what happens in samsara's show! Even within one lifetime, it often happens that sworn enemies are later reconciled and make friends. They may even become part of each other's families, and end up closer than anyone else. On the other hand, people intimately linked by blood or marriage often argue and do each other as much harm as they can for the sake of some trivial possession or paltry inheritance. Couples or dear friends can break up for the most insignifi- cant reasons, ending sometimes even in murder. Seeing that all friendship and enmity is so ephemeral, remind yourself over and over again to treat
everyone with love and compassion. (Excerpted from Words of My Perfect Teacher, Padmakara Translation Group (1998), 50–51.

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Tashi Namgyal @tnamgyal.bsky.social · Apr 15

Always liked that old story and the verse in Tibetan:
འཕགས་པ་ཀ་ཏྱཱ་ནས།
ཕ་ཤ་ཟ་ཞིང་མ་ལ་རྡེག༎ ལས་ངན་དགྲ་བོ་པང་ན་བཟུང༌༎
ཆུང་མས་ཁྱོ་ཡི་རུས་པ་འཆའ༎ འཁོར་བའི་ཆོས་ལ་གད་མོ་བྲོ༎

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Tashi Namgyal @tnamgyal.bsky.social · Apr 10

Congratulations!!

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Andrew Quintman @andrewquintman.bsky.social · Apr 7

#ManuscriptMonday Melodies for Long Life edition.

A short manuscript combining the text and chant melody for a Tibetan Buddhist ritual of long life.

From the archives of the Buddhist Digital Resource Center purl.bdrc.io/resource/WA8...

Two folio sides from a Tibetan manuscript illustrating the chant melody for a ritual of long life, wide leaves of yellowing paper with black ink, small Tibetan cursive writing, and the flowing lines of the chant melody.

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Tashi Namgyal @tnamgyal.bsky.social · Apr 7

Glad to have some moments to finish reading the two great new books whilst working on my dissertation. Both works are highly recommended for their excellent historical value and great storytelling.

Tashi Namgyal @tnamgyal.bsky.social · Mar 23

Delighted to have organized a wonderful panel and presented a paper at the #AAS2025 last week.
Thank you to my co-panelists for the support, and it's great meeting so many scholars in the field!

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Tashi Namgyal @tnamgyal.bsky.social · Mar 21

Hello, Bluesky!
ཨེ་མ། ཀུན་གསལ་གྱི་མཁའ་སྔོན་མ།
嗨，藍天!