Tibetan Language Institute

Organizing a Workshop/Seminar in Your Area

Take your group's involvement with the Dharma to the next level, facilitating the experience of joy in learning to read texts in Tibetan. Call or email us today to talk about organizing a seminar in your area.

In general, there are many benefits to hosting a seminar, both for the students/sangha members that attend and for the hosting center.

• Students can learn more about the Buddhadharma in general, for learning Tibetan will further understanding and meditation practice.
• Students can become conversant with their practice texts, no longer having to remain satisfied with merely reciting prayers in an unknown language; the center benefits from chant leaders who enjoy a deeper understanding of the Tibetan in texts.
• Students can prepare more thoroughly for retreats -- knowing the Tibetan of practice texts and commentaries allows them to more fully benefit from this experience; the center benefits from better-prepared retreatants who can enter into deeper dialogue with the tradition.
• Students can begin to converse with Tibetan Rinpoches, Lamas and friends who have limited fluency in English--nurturing in-house translators is a boon to all at the center
• The hosting center will stimulate enthusiasm for its current programs and retreats.

The Tibetan Language Institute has been hosted to teach language seminars all over the United States. David Curtis, the principle instructor, usually teaches the Level I Course, the Level II Course, and Reading/Translation Workshops. For these TLI has developed an excellent suite of support learning materials. During the time that he is at a seminar, David also delivers lectures to the general public on various topics concerning Tibet and its language, literature and culture, stimulating interest in the general topic of Tibet as well as in the learning of the Tibetan language. 

To organize a seminar in your area, please call us for availability and logistics. Here is an idea  of what the sponsoring group's responsibilities:

• To provide advertising and phone trees to contact the local student base.
• To have volunteers to put up posters and contact other local dharma centers that might have people interested in attending.
• To have a suitable teaching place.
• To provide basic teaching supports (white board, chairs/tables for the students).
• To provide area for a small bookstore (of TLI learning materials and dharma books, if appropriate).
• To supply airplane ticket (roundtrip), transportation to/from airport, and room/board for instructor during seminar.
• To pay a base fee to TLI  for the seminar (please contact our office for this information).

In order to facilitate the seminar, TLI can help with developing the poster for the seminar (both for print and email distribution). We also can advertise the seminar to our email list (currently at approximately 1200 people), send out brochures by U.S. mail, and we can include your seminar on our calendar and sidebar of this website. David is truly gifted as a teacher, and we at the TLI office do our utmost to help make your seminar successful in all ways.

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