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Correction
An obituary in the July 5 issue of the Reporter for James A. Conway, an emeritus faculty member in the Graduate School of Education, misidentified Conway.
He was a full professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the time of his retirement in 2000.
Courses in Tibetan language to be offered
As a follow up to the 2006 visit to UB by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, the Asian Studies Program will offer introductory courses in the classical Tibetan language in the 2007-08 academic year taught by noted Tibetan scholar Craig Preston.
The courses will serve as an introduction to this written language, which was created to translate the large corpus of Indian Buddhist sutras, tantras and commentaries from the original Sanskrit. It is the language of the sacred texts of Tibetan Buddhism, most of which have not been translated into modern Tibetan, Chinese or Western languages.
The courses will introduce students to the basics of the language and enable them to read short textual passages by the second semester.
They are open to UB students and members of the community, and may be audited or taken for three undergraduate credits each.
The registration number for this fall's course, "Topics in Asian Studies: First Semester Classical Tibetan" (AS 394), is 042306. The registration number for the course to be offered in the spring 2008 semester, "Topics in Asian Studies: Second Semester Classical Tibetan" (AS 395), is 390705.
Craig Preston is author of "Classical Buddhism" (with Daniel Cozort), "How to Read Classical Tibetan, Volume 1: Summary of the General Path" and "How to Read Classical Tibetan, Volume 2: Introduction to Buddhist Tenets."
He majored in religious studies at the University of Virginia, where he studied under the distinguished American Tibetologist Jeffery Hopkins and other noted Tibetan scholars. He also studied in India. Preston holds a law degree and is an adjunct faculty member of the Namgyal Monastery in Ithaca.
The fall class will convene Aug. 30 and will meet on Thursdays from 5:30-8:10 p.m. in 12 O'Brian Hall, North Campus. Textbooks will be available for purchase at the first class meeting. UB students who complete both classes for credit may use it to meet the College of Arts and Sciences language requirement.
Courses in intermediate and advanced classical Tibetan and in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy also are available by arrangement with the instructor.
For more information, including how to register for the course, contact Elizabeth Felmet at 645-3474, ext. 2, or at efelmet@buffalo.edu.
Morato to speak on Wyndham Lewis
Yolanda Morato, visiting assistant professor in the Department of Arts and Sciences and Charles D. Abbott Library Fellow at UB, will speak on "The Enemy is Here: Wyndham Lewis and the Archive of the Poetry Collection" at 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Special Collections Research Room, 420 Capen Hall, North Campus.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
A researcher at the University of Huelva, Spain, Morato currently is working on the first collection of Wyndham Lewis' books in Spanish, to be launched in early 2008.
For more information about Morato and her project, click here.