Speaker Khenpo Sonam Tenphel Addresses Closing Ceremony of Inter-School Dialectics Meet

Dharamshala: Speaker Khenpo Sonam Tenphel of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile attended the closing ceremony of the Inter-School Dialectic Meet at the Tibetan Children’s Village, Chauntra, as the Chief Guest.

The Inter-School Dialectics Meet, organized by the Department of Education, Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), brought together students from 26 Tibetan boarding and day schools across India.

Addressing the ceremony, the Speaker mentioned that the practice of dialectics was introduced into the school curriculum on the advice of His Holiness the Dalai Lama during one of the Department of Education’s conferences, with the aim of incorporating logic and reasoning into the process of studying.

The Speaker went on to explain the history and significance of dialectics in Buddhism, tracing its origins to the Sutras and highlighting the contributions of great thinkers such as Dignaga, Dharmakirti, and others in developing sophisticated systems of Buddhist logic and dialectical reasoning.

He further elaborated on the formalization of Buddhist dialectics and logic in Tibet during the e...