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Monks & Teachers · Norbulingka
Tenzin Dorje
Monk & Tibetan-language teacher
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Ask about classesAt the institute, mornings belong to prayer and afternoons to grammar. Tenzin teaches Tibetan to a mixed classroom - exile-born teenagers, foreign researchers, and the occasional curious traveller.
His method is stubbornly conversational: no laminated charts, just tea, patience, and the insistence that students speak from the first day.
He keeps a jar of pebbles on his desk, one for every student who reached their first full conversation. The jar is nearly full; he refuses to get a bigger one.
“A language survives one conversation at a time.”
— Tenzin Dorje
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I take his Tuesday class. Clay in the morning, grammar at night.Open Priyanka
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Valley Words School
A language survives one conversation at a time.
Conversation partners wanted — one hour a week, any level.
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