Modern Tibetan Studies Lecture "The Emergence and Resistance of Large House Churches in China" Carsten T. Vala, Associate Professor of Political Science, Loyola University Maryland 1:00 PM -2:00 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918 No registration required. Part of Religion and the State in China, a 2017-18 lecture series by the Weatherhead East Asian … [Read more...]
Food of Sinful Demons: Meat, Vegetarianism, and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Geoffrey Barstow (Columbia University Press, 2017) For information from the publisher, please click here. Tibetan Buddhism teaches compassion toward all beings, a category that explicitly includes animals. Slaughtering animals is morally problematic at best and, at worst, completely incompatible with a religious lifestyle. Yet … [Read more...]
Watch Andrew J. Nathan Discuss “China’s Great Awakening” at the Council on Foreign Relations
Andrew J. Nathan, the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, recently moderated an event at the Council on Foreign Relations titled " … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: G. Clinton Godart’s “Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine: Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan, published by the University of Hawaii Press. The book's author is G. Clinton Godart, who teaches history at Hokkaido University. Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine is the first book in … [Read more...]
Robert Barnett talks with The New York Times about Mongolia’s relations with China and the Dalai Lama
Modern Tibetan Studies Director Robert Barnett (Retired January 2018) was quoted in The New York Times in a December 30, 2016 article titled "Mongolia, With Deep Ties to Dalai Lama, Turns From Him Toward China." Discussing Mongolia's move toward China and away from the influence of the Dalai Lama, Professor Barnett noted "This is part of a near-global collapse in diplomatic … [Read more...]
