Sernya

Generative AI, agency, and the imperative of virtuosity: a Buddhist perspective In this talk, the speaker argues that humanity is nearing an evolutionary and ethical tipping point—an existential crisis that is most clearly manifest along the agential frontiers of human-AI interaction.

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ཐབས་སླ་པོའི་སྒོ་ནས་བོད་ཀྱི་ཐ་སྙད་སྦྱོང་སྟངས།
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སྐད་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་མིང་ཚིག Words related to the syllable “སྐད། (kay)”

Watch live tonight: The Rubin Museum Distinguished Lecture in Himalayan Art—Flowering Trees and Beauties in Nepalese Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Join Sanskritist and scholar Gautama V. Vajracharya as he explores the salanbhanjika—a young woman standing atop a human figure and beneath a flowering tree—and the ongoing scholarly debate surrounding its meaning in Nepalese art.

🗓️ September 15, 2026
🕕 6:00–7:00 PM ET
📍 Livestream or The Met Fifth Avenue

Drawing on Sanskrit, Pali, and Newari sources, Vajracharya will offer a novel approach to uncovering the hidden significance of this enduring image.

Watch the lecture live at 6:00 PM ET: https://www.youtube.com/live/9VrEFW4dDas?si=yg1nH-jHQPOX5BSQ

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The Four Struts of the Main Shrine of Yetakaha Baha, Kathmandu, Nepal, 7th–9th century (1st and 3rd) and 11th–13th century (2nd and 4th). Wood. Photograph by Sameer Tuladhar, 2021

Please join us online on Friday, Sept 18 (10am ET) for a talk by Dr. Dhondup T. Rekjong, our first speaker in a year-long series that celebrates a growing cohort of Tibetan heritage PhD graduates. To register: bit.ly/4zWAT6r

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