Tenzin Tsenyi

Tenzin Tsenyi is a Tibetan PhD candidate at the University of Warsaw (SDNH), specializing in literary studies. Her research focuses on a Tibetan religious guidebook preserved in the Pander Collection at the Jagiellonian Library in Kraków. She has recently begun work on a project entitled “Tibetan Religious Guidebook (gnas yig): Studies on an Endangered Literary Genre Based on Selected Examples,” which has been awarded funding by the National Science Centre, Poland (Narodowe Centrum Nauki, NCN). At the department, she serves as an Assistant Lecturer in Tibetan Language and Culture.

 

Publications

“The Guidebook (gnas yig) to Holy Places in Kham by the 6th Shamar Mipam Chokyi Wangchuk, Preliminary study” pp. 163-177 by Polish Academy of Sciences, Vol. XLV, 2022.

‘Relationship Between Maha Pundit Rahul Sanskrityayan and Gedun Choephel’, Tibet Journal, Library of Tibetan Works and Archive, Gangchen Kyishong, Dharamsala (India)

‘Earth-Mouse Year (1888) Battle between British India and Tibet’, Tam Tsok; Tibetan Journal, Library of Tibetan Works and Archive, Gangchen Kyishong, Dharamsala (India)

‘Expulsion of Chinese forces from Tibet between 1912-1913’ in Tibet’s Policy Journal 2020.1, Tibet Policy Institute, Central Tibetan Administration, Dharamsala (India)

“Who is Purangir”, Tibet Policy Journal, 2018.1, Tibet Policy Institute, Central Tibetan Administration, Dharamsala (India)

In progress – Mahasiddha Nyag re se bo (1141? -1201) activity at Kam po gnas nang as described in the early 17th-century guidebook from the Pander Collection in Cracow.