As a child living in a rural area in eastern Tibet, His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje recalls a natural environment that was pristine and untarnished by modern development.It was there, he said during his Chubb Fellowship Lecture at Yale...
Analyzing ancient texts on cuneiform, or clay tablets, may seem like an esoteric endeavor.Not so, say the scholars working on the Yale Cuneiform Commentaries Project (CCP). They argue that these are just some of the first traces of a tradition that is...
Susan Jakes, editor for ChinaFile.com and senior fellow for the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations, will speak at Yale on Thursday, April 16 as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism.Jakes will take part in a lunchtime discussion in Berkeley College,...