Postdoctoral Fellow | Society of Fellows, Dartmouth College
tiina [dot] rosenqvist [at] gmail [dot] com
Tibetan Language | བོད་སྐད་དང་བོད་ཡིག།
From 2014 to 2017, I studied Tibetan language (Standard Tibetan / Central Tibetan) at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives Center for Tibetan Studies in Dharamsala, Northern India under the guidance of Nyima Dekyi, Pema Khandro, Acharya Ani Norzom, and Dr. Chok Tenzin Monlam.
Tibetic languages belong to the Sino-Tibetan language family and employ an Indic script developed specifically for codifying Buddhist text. One of my motivations for studying Tibetan was to gain firsthand access to the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist philosophical tradition. Many Tibetan philosophical texts, including translations of non-extant Sanskrit texts, remain untranslated into English or, when translated, heavily reflect the interpretive choices of the translator. Both my Bachelor's and Master's theses focused on Indian and Tibetan philosophical perspectives and their relevance to contemporary discussions in Western philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and epistemology.
བོད་ཀྱི་དམངས་ཁྲོད་སྒྲུང་གཏམ། Tibetan Folktales
In 2019 LTWA published a book of Tibetan Folk Tales that I co-translated with my friend and teacher, Nyima Dekyi la. The book is designed to help students of Tibetan language make the transition from early stages of study to working with more complex Tibetan literary works.
