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SUMMARY: Golden Letters Arrayed Like Stars and Planets: The Tibetan Culture
  of Language and Letters
DESCRIPTION: Drop by the Liu Institute Lobby Gallery to view our latest exh
 ibition\, Golden Letters Arrayed Like Stars and Planets: The Tibetan Cultur
 e of Language and Letters.
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 height="480" /></p><p> </p><p>Drop by the Liu Institute Lobby Gallery durin
 g business hours to view our latest exhibition\, <em>Golden Letters Arrayed
  Like Stars and Planets: The Tibetan Culture of Language and Letters.</em><
 /p><p>The exhibition runs from<strong> October 7\, 2019 – January 4\, 2020.
 </strong></p><p>Tibetans regard every syllable of their language as sacred\
 , imbued with the power to liberate beings from suffering. The Tibetan reli
 gious corpus is among the vastest of any literatures in history and the she
 er reverence with which Tibetans hold their language has been a defining ch
 aracteristic of this civilization on the world’s highest plateau. This exhi
 bition\, which takes its title from a 13<sup>th</sup> century Tibetan poem\
 , was curated by doctoral student Patrick Dowd. It features sacred scriptur
 es\, calligraphy\, and numerous other powerful textual objects gathered fro
 m three continents and five countries\, all representative of the epic\, be
 autiful and ongoing story of the Tibetan culture of language and letters.</
 p><p><strong>Credits:</strong></p><p><strong>Tsengdok Rinpoche</strong> was
  born in northeastern Tibet and received his monastic education at Ganden J
 angtse Monastic College in India. He moved to Canada in 2005 and has since 
 served as a central cultural and spiritual leader for the Tibetan populatio
 n of British Columbia.</p><p><strong>Patrick Dowd</strong> is a second-year
  doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology and is a Liu Scholar\, 
 Public Scholar\, and Killam Doctoral Scholar.</p><p><strong>Sonam Chusang</
 strong> is an Adjunct Professor of Tibetan language in the Department of As
 ian Studies at the University of British Columbia.</p><p><strong>Co-sponsor
 ed by:</strong> The Himalaya Program\, Institute for Asia Research\, the Li
 u Institute for Global Issues\, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs\
 , and Asian Studies\, UBC.</p>
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