Events

TNTS Pali Grammar Reading Group: The Saddanīti. We invite students with an intermediate level of Pali and higher to join a group reading and study of Aggavaṃsa’s Saddanīti, the twelfth-century Pali grammar. This free online course will be led by Dr Aleix Ruiz-Falqués and Dr Anuja Ajotikar, both Lecturers at Shan State Buddhist University. Places are limited.

After the Rains | Theravada Studies Talks, November 2020 to July 2021. All are welcome to join us for online talks by various researchers on the third Friday each month from autumn 2020 to summer 2021. Recordings of the webinars will be posted on TNTS youtube channel.

Rainy Season Research Series, 17 July – 23 September. Join us during the Vassa for a series of online talks by various researchers. If you have some Pali, you are also welcome to attend a class taught by Aleix Ruiz-Falqués on Kaccāyana’s grammar. Each talk is being recorded and will be made available on TNTS youtube channel.

International Conference: Unravelling the Matrix: Paṭṭhāna, Bhavaṅga, and Abhidhamma Meditation, 7-10 November 2019, Taunggyi, Shan State, Myanmar. Shan State Buddhist University, Myanmar, organised a writing workshop and a conference on Abhidhamma, bringing together traditional teachers and contemporary scholars working on different aspects of Theravāda Abhidhamma to explore the doctrine, practices, literary traditions and applications of Abhidhamma, and aiming to make Abhidhammamore accessible. For more, see: https://theravadastudies.org/international-conference-unravelling-the-matrix-paṭṭhana-bhavaṅga-and-abhidhamma-meditation/

PhD Colloquium, 5-6 April 2019, Manchester, UK. TNTS held a Theravada Studies PhD Colloquium together with the Samatha Trust and Ji Xuegen Research Funding for Buddhist Studies, King’s College London … For more, see: https://theravadastudies.org/phd-colloquium/