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Tibetan language courses are taught in three terms of three months each: March 4 to June 3, June 10 to September 9 and September 16 to December 13. There are three regular Tibetan language classes: basic, intermediate and advanced, and two regular speaking classes: basic and intermediate. The classes are of one hour duration and will be held five times a week.

Note:

  1. Serious students who wish to receive an LTWA certificate on completion of a three-month Tibetan language course must sit monthly tests.
  2. New students who wish to study basic Tibetan language will be admitted for the Basic Tibetan Language Course at any time during a term. For other Tibetan language and speaking classes, the students are not admitted after the third week of a term.
ARTICLES

Early Morning Advanced Tibetan Language Class

Time: 8 am to 9 am
Teacher: Acharya Sangye Tandar Naga

Published on Friday, 16 July 2010 17:28

Basic Tibetan Language Course

Time: 9:00 am to 10:00 am
Teacher: Acharya Ani Norzom (Substitute: Dr. Chok Tenzin Monlam)

Published on Friday, 16 July 2010 17:21

Intermediate Tibetan Language Course

Time: 9:15 pm to 10:15 pm
Teacher: Mrs. Nyima Dekyi (Substitute: Tsering Norbu or Phurbu Dolma)

Published on Friday, 16 July 2010 17:22

Advanced Tibetan Language Course

Time: 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Teacher: Mrs. Nyima Dekyi (Substitute: Tsering Norbu or Phurbu Dolma)

Published on Friday, 16 July 2010 17:24

Basic Tibetan Speaking Course

Time: 10:30 pm to 11:30 pm
Teacher: Mrs. Nyima Dekyi (Substitute: Dr. Chok Tenzin Monlam)

Published on Friday, 16 July 2010 17:27

Intermediate Tibetan Speaking Course

Time: 11:45 pm to 12:45 pm
Teacher: Mrs. Nyima Dekyi (Substitute: Acharya Tsewang Gyalpo)

Published on Friday, 16 July 2010 17:22

Intensive Tibetan speaking course

Teacher: Dr. Chok Tenzin Monlam
Availability of this course will be announced in advance, along with its timetable and fee structure.

Published on Friday, 24 December 2010 06:05

Intensive Tibetan Pronounciation Course

Teacher: Dr. Chok Tenzin Monlam
Availability of this course will be announced in advance, along with its timetable and fee structure.

Published on Friday, 24 December 2010 06:05

Hindi Language Course

Time: 10:00 am to 11:00 am
Teachers: Acharya Tsewang Gyalpo (Substitute: Dr. Jampa Dawa)

Published on Saturday, 17 July 2010 19:06
TIBETAN LANGUAGE TEACHERS

Acharya Sangye Tandar Naga

Acharya Sangye Tandar Naga is the head of the Cultural Research and Tibetan Publication Department and the editor of gTam-tshogs Journal in Tibetan. He joined the LTWA in 1991. He teaches the morning special class and other academic workshops at the LTWA.

Dr. Chok Tenzin Monlam

Dr. Chok Tenzin Monlam is the head of the Research and Translation Department. He joined the LTWA in 2007. One of the research works that he has been doing since 2001 is on how to teach Tibetan as a foreign language. He has started to teach his findings to hundreds of foreign students since 2007. In 2012 he taught Tibetan language at the Summer Language Program in the University of Virginia.

Mrs. Nyima Dekyi

Mrs. Nyima Dekyi was born in Phenpo, Tibet. She studied Buddhism in Poto Nunnery, Tibet, for seven years. In 1997, she escaped to India and continued to study Buddhism in Dolmaling Nunnery for three years. Then she studied Tibetan language in the Sarah College for Higher Tibetan Studies, Dharamsala, for more than two years. She taught Tibetan as a foreign language at Thosamling Nunnery for more than three years before joining the LTWA in 2009.

Acharya Ani Norzom

Venerable Ani Norzom holds an Acharya degree in Tibetan Studies and Buddhist Philosophy from the Central University of Tibetan Studies, Varanasi. She joined LTWA in 1999 and has been teaching the basic Tibetan language course for the past nine years.

Tsering Norbu

Tsering Norbu holds an Uma Rabjampa degree (equivalent to MA degree) in Buddhist philosophy and Tibetan studies from the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics, Dharamsala. He joined the LTWA in 2010.

Phurbu Dolma

Phurbu Dolma holds a Bachelor’s degree in Tibetan studies from the College for Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarah and a Bachelor’s degree from Delhi University. She joined the Research and Translation Department of the LTWA in the summer of 2012.

HINDI LANGUAGE TEACHERS

Acharya Tsewang Gyalpo

Acharya Tsewang Gyalpo holds an MA from the Central University of Tibetan Studies, Varanasi. He joined the LTWA in 2009.

Dr. Jampa Dawa

Dr. Jampa Dawa is the head of the Hindi Section of the Research and Translation Department. He joined the LTWA in 2006. Since then he has been working as an editor for the LTWA Hindi publications.