Brown Bag Lecture Featuring: Susumu Kawata, Professor of Asian Area Studies, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan Moderated by Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures International Affairs Building, Room 918 No registration required. For press inquiries, please … [Read more...]
Mon. March 11th: “A Note from Japan on Contemporary Tibet: The CCP’s Religious Policies and the Emergence of Religious Space in Eastern Tibet”
Brown Bag Lecture Featuring: Susumu Kawata, Professor of Asian Area Studies, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan Moderated by Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures 4:10 PM-6:00 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918 No registration required. For press … [Read more...]
Tues. April 9th: “Garu Lobzang Sherap: A Tibetan Painter at the Qing Court”
Featuring: Tsangwang Gendun Tenpa, Director and Chief Curator of the Chengdu Dargye Himalayan Art and Culture Museum Moderated by Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures Drawing on a range of Tibetan and Chinese historical sources, as well as images of several important Tibetan thangka … [Read more...]
The Handsome Monk and Other Stories
WEATHERHEAD BOOKS ON ASIA Tsering Döndrup. The Handsome Monk and Other Stories Translated by Christopher Peacock (2018) "This volume makes accessible some of the new and exciting work in Tibetan literature from inside China. It will be of interest both to general readers and to scholars of Tibetan and Chinese literature." - Janet Gyatso, Harvard University "Tséring … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Max Oidtmann’s “Forging the Golden Urn”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet, published by Columbia University Press. The book's author is Max Oidtmann, an Assistant Professor of Asian History at Georgetown University Qatar. In 1995, the People’s Republic of China … [Read more...]
