“The Train Now Stops at the Roof of the World”
Tibet in the 21st Century

The State of Religion in Contemporary Tibet

Take part in a conversation – with distinguished guest speakers and with the audience – to discuss the current state of Tibetan Buddhism, inside and outside of Tibet. The speakers include:

Yangsi Rinpoche is the founder, President, and a professor at Maitripa Institute, a new Buddhist university in Portland. Rinpoche has been recognized as the reincarnation of Geshe Ngawang Gendun, a renowned scholar and practitioner from Western Tibet.

David Germano is associate professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia. His main research interest is in the Buddhist and Bön traditions of the tenth through fourteenth centuries.

Kenneth Liberman, an associate professor of Sociology and Religious Studies at the University of Oregon, specializes in race and ethnic relations and Tibetan practices of reasoning and intercultural communication. He is the author of Dialectical Practice in Tibetan Philosophical Culture (2003).

James Blumenthal, an associate professor of Buddhist Philosophy at Oregon State University and a professor of Buddhist History and Classical Tibetan language at Maitripa Institute in Portland, will serve as panel moderator.

WHEN	Tuesday, May 15, 7PM-9PM
WHERE	Portland State University Smith Memorial Union Room 228 SW Broadway and Harrison, Portland
COST	Free

Sponsored by the Northwest China Council,
The Institute for Asian Studies at PSU, the NW Tibetan Cultural Assoc.
and The Oregon Council for the Humanities