Modern Tibetan Studies Lecture "People Without History: Tibetan Archives and the Worlds that Hide Behind Them" Charles Ramble, Director of Studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM International Affairs Building, Room 1219 No registration required. Legal and administrative documents from the past may have been symbols of social and … [Read more...]
“The History, Role, and Re-emergence of Tibetan Buddhist Encampments”
Modern Tibetan Studies Lecture "The History, Role, and Re-emergence of Tibetan Buddhist Encampments" Khenpo Tsultrim Lodroe, Abbot of Larung Gar Institute 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Kent Hall, Room 403 Registration required. To register, please visit https://goo.gl/oXXj98 … [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...]
Study of WEAI “Ethnic Conflict & Protest in Tibet & Xinjiang,” co-edited by Gray Tuttle, Named as One of 2016’s Best Human Rights Books
We are pleased to announce that the Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China’s West, co-edited by Gray Tuttle, the Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies at Columbia University, and Ben Hillman, Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University's Crawford School, was listed as … [Read more...]
“Curating the Borderland: State, Market and Heritage-making in China”
Modern Tibetan Studies Lecture "Curating the Borderland: State, Market and Heritage-making in China" Alessandro Ripa, Post-doctoral Fellow, Ludwig Maximillian University, Muenich 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM International Affairs Building, Room 1219 No Registration required. Co-sponsored by the Inner Asia Curriculum Development Project … [Read more...]
