August in Italy means vacation, so I’ve been duly and happily away from Milan in recent weeks. My husband and I took the Hurtigruten coastal steamer (cruise ship cum postal delivery vehicle) up the Norwegian coast and into the Arctic Circle. Fortunately, we’d arranged a three-day stop on the magnificent Lofoten Islands. The journey is [...]
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Norway is quiet
Posted in Travel on August 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Tibetan Translation Training in Tuscany
Posted in Tibetan language, tagged merigar, namkhai norbu, shang shung, tibetan translation training, tuscany on August 10, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve spent the past three weeks translating Tibetan with a small and wonderful group of people from all over the world at Merigar, near Monte Amiata in Tuscany. Under the guidance of Fabian Sanders and the sponsorship of the Shang Shung Institute, we’ve been struggling with this marvelously ambiguous and context-based language. Between difficult-to-decipher printings, [...]
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