Eighth ecumenical conference of Tibetan religious traditions underway

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(TibetanReview.net, May06’25) – An ecumenical meeting of representatives of various Tibetan monasteries belonging to different philosophical schools is being held near Dharamshala from May 4 to 7 to discuss key religious treatises, reported the Tibetan-language tibettimes.net May 6. This is the eighth such conference since 2015.

The conference is being held at Dzongsar Shedra (the Dzongsar Institute for Higher Buddhist Studies), Chauntra in Kangra District, Himachal Pradesh, which is jointly organizing the event with the Department of Religion and Culture of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA).

A total of 17 monks and nuns from various Tibetan religious traditions are participating in the discussion, with 92 participants from 47 monasteries, apart from the monks of Dzongsar Institute.

The texts for discussion at this conference are the root text of Abhidharmakosha (choe ngonpa dzoe) by the Indian Master ...

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