{"id":2290,"date":"2020-05-15T01:27:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T19:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2020-07-07T01:30:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T20:00:40","slug":"launch-of-the-book-the-great-history-of-utsang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/launch-of-the-book-the-great-history-of-utsang\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch of the book The Great History of Utsang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the morning of 3 March 2020, His Eminence Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche graced, as requested by the organisers, as the Chief Guest at the launch ceremony of the book <em>The Great History of Utsang<\/em>, organised by Central Executive Committee of Utsang Association, and convened at Norbu Hotel, Dharamshala.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/utsang2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2291\" src=\"https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/utsang2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/utsang2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/utsang2-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/utsang2-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/utsang2-700x463.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ceremony began with Mr Jampa Choephel, president of Utsang Association, giving an introduction speech, followed by a speech on the book by General Editor, Lopon Top la.<\/p>\n<p>Ven. Thupten Yarphel, the principal of Namgyal Monastery School, narrated his experiences from reading the volumes.<\/p>\n<p>Thereafter the Utsang Association\u2019s Scholarship Trust, in gratitude of His Holiness the Dalai Lama\u2019s kindness, was launched. And then mementos of thanks were awarded to book\u2019s editor, proof-readers and the publication benefactors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/utsang3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2292\" src=\"https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/utsang3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/utsang3.jpg 960w, https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/utsang3-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/utsang3-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/utsang3-700x463.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>His Eminence Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche, as the Chief Guest, gave a talk on the occasion, pointing out the importance and quality of the Tibetan language; the deficiency of historiology in Tibet; the importance of Historiology; and so forth, in details.<\/p>\n<p>The Association offered His Eminence a statue of Buddha Amitayus, in gratitude.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Utsang1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2293\" src=\"https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Utsang1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Utsang1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Utsang1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Utsang1-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Utsang1-700x464.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ceremony concluded with a word of Thanks from the association\u2019s president. Former and incumbent members of the parliament, academics, representatives of non-governmental organisations and media reporters attended the event.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the morning of 3 March 2020, His Eminence Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche graced, as requested by the organisers, as the Chief Guest at the launch ceremony of the book The Great History of Utsang, organised by Central Executive Committee of Utsang Association, and convened at Norbu Hotel, Dharamshala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","has-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294,"href":"https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions\/2294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samdhongrinpoche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}