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Chelsea Hall's Assignments from the Tibetan Renaissance Seminar

Week 2 - Summary of Blue Annals Ch 2

  • Status : completed
  • view here: Summary of Blue Annals Chapter 2
  • Comments: I revised and expanded this but was unsure of what should or should not be included for the sake of brevity, especially with regard to lineage lists.

Week 3 - Clans and Tribes Essay

Week 4 - Timeline of Blue Annals Ch 3

  • Status: completed
  • view here: external link: THDL Timeline Database
  • Comments: I did about 50 entries, I didn't keep track of them at the time because I thought the website would show who created which entries....but they are all very short entries mostly dealing with important persons' lives. Any concrete dates in Chapter 3, I put on the timeline, but I didn't try to put in those that were without a year explicitly stated.

Week 5 - Blue Annals Ch 4 Tibetan Markup

  • Status: completed
  • view here: external link: Blue Annals Chapter 4 Tibetan Markup
  • Comments: I did all forty pages from scratch, this was un-marked-up. This took an extremely long time but I found it very helpful for Literary Tibetan.

Week 6 - Blue Annals Ch 9 English Markup

  • Status: completed
  • view here: external link: Thematic Markup of English
  • Comments: This was provisionally done, so I corrected errors of identification where someone identified a person as a place, etc.

Week 7 - Kham Place Essay

  • Status: work in progress, need to finish Blue Annals references
  • view here: Kham Place Essay with Alison Melnick
  • Comments: Blue Annals references almost finished.

Week 8 - Bio of Machik Labdrön

Week 9: Structured Monastery Entry

Week 10: Event Analysis

  • Status: completed
  • view here: external link: THDL Timeline Database
  • Event Analysis of :
    • Vinaya teaching spread from khams to dbus (978)
    • Atīśa visits Samye (1047)
    • Kunga Gyeltsen visits Emperor Godan
  • Comments: Collaborating with Luke Wagner

Week 11: Term Dictionary Analysis: Chöd, Dzogchen, Zhiche

  • Status: completed
  • view here: Term Dictionary Analysis: Chöd, Dzogchen, Zhiche
  • Comments: This was my favorite assignment.

Week 12: Gazetteer Entry: Kongpo, Amdo, Lhoka

  • Status: completed
  • view here: Gazetteer Entry: Kongpo, Amdo, Lhoka
  • Comments: Surprisingly, there were not many citations for Lhoka.

Week 13: Reference Analysis Fragment 13; A Section on The Object of Cutting and Kharakpa

  • Status: in progress
  • view here: Reference Analysis Fragment 13 ; A Section on The Object of Cutting and Kharakpa
  • Comments: This is taking a much longer time than anticipated.

Week 14: Annotated Bibliography - Terma