I first encountered Buddhadharma a long time ago, in 2005. My initial motivation to learn Tibetan language was similar to Ms. Ostrich: I aspired to understand Buddhist philosophy more deeply. Not long after that I started to work as a tour guide in Tibet. During my...
Tashi Delek! My name is Bhargavi, and I am from Chennai, India. I grew up in China for most of my life and completed my undergraduate studies in Chinese language. I recently earned a master's degree in Tibetan history from Columbia University. I have studied Tibetan...
Tashi Delek! My name is Bhargavi, and I am from Chennai, India. I grew up in China for most of my life and completed my undergraduate studies in Chinese language. I recently earned a master's degree in Tibetan history from Columbia University. I have studied Tibetan...
Tashi Delek, everyone! Like many of you, I am sure, I wanted to understand the precious Dharma teachings directly from the peerless teachers like His Holiness the Dalai Lama and others. Many years ago I traveled far up north of India to a small village called Spiti,...
Tashi delek! My name is Ania, a Polish national currently living in Dharamshala. My journey with Tibetan language started during the pandemic when རྒན་ Franziska ལགས་ offered a beginner language course on-line, in the summer of 2020. Since then I have been studying...
Hello everyone, my name is Paul, I am from a little town in North Germany. I got in touch with the Tibetan language and culture through my interest in Sowa Rigpa, I came to Dharamsala in 2017 to study language and later joined the Men-Tsee-Khang. At the moment I...
Hello, my name is Pema Woeser and I am from Pemako, one of the major sacred places of Guru Padma Sambhava which is located in east Arunachal Pradesh, India. I have completed my master on Tibetan literature in Central Institute of higher Tibetan Studies, Sarnath,...
Tzoe was a student of the Colloquial Tibetan Beginner Course back in 2021. She has always been interested in the Tibetan language and Buddhism and did not hesitate to sign up when she found out about the online program offered by SINI. She enjoyed it very much and...
Lhakpa Tsering Lama was born in Nepal and raised in India. He completed his Bachelor's (Shastri degree) in Buddhist philosophy in 2019. He recently earned his M.A. (Acharya) in Tibetan linguistics at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (C.I.H.T.S.) in...
Tenzin Ghegay Ph.D., was born at Sarding Gyaton in Eastern Tibet. He began his primary education in the Tibetan Children’s Village Schools in India after escaping from Tibet in 1994 In 2001, he joined the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies and received his...
Juan Felipe Garcia-Peña has always been fascinated by learning technologies, even as a child growing up in Colombia and attending college in Costa Rica. Through his experiences in university-level teaching, government contracting, and private institutions, he...
Franziska Oertle's passion and vocation is to teach Colloquial Tibetan as her small personal contribution to preserving the Tibetan culture and the dharma, trying to fulfill the wish of her main (Tibetan Buddhist) teacher, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. Upon...