| DATE: | Friday, May 5, 2006 to Sunday, May 7, 2006 |
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| PLACE: | Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley |
| FORMAT: | Conference |
| SPONSORS: | Center for Buddhist Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Townsend Center for the Humanities |
Public Lecture
Tsering Shakya
Tibet: Does History Matter?
Friday, May 5, 2006, 7:00-8:30 pm
Panel 1: Ritual, Magic, and Medicine
This panel explores the volatile cultural and political world of seventeenth century central Tibet through reflection on ritual and medical practice and theory. Papers focused on these often overlooked realms of discourse expand and challenge our understanding of the period.
Saturday, May 6, 2006, 9:30-11:30 am
Panel 2: Portraits and Prophecies
This panel focuses on art and literature in the eighteenth century, with a particular emphasis on the production and publication of literary and visual biographies and hagiographies.
Saturday, May 6, 2006, 1:00-3:30 pm
Panel 3: Reincarnation and the State
This panel considers the Tibetan Buddhist practice of recognized reincarnations through papers focused on some of the reincarnate lamas whose lives and images were intimately involved in the Tibetan State of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Saturday, May 6, 2006, 4:00-6:00 pm
Panel 4: Transnational Crossroads
This panel focuses on aspects of Tibet's interactions with the dynamic social, political, and religious world of Central Asia and China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Sunday, May 7, 2006, 9:30-11:30 am
Friday, May 5, 2006
7:00-8:30 pm
Public Lecture
Tsering Shakya, University of British Columbia
Tibet: Does History Matter?
Anderson Auditorium, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Saturday, May 6
9:30-11:30 am
Panel 1: "Ritual, Magic, and Medicine"
This panel explores the volatile cultural and political world of seventeenth-century central Tibet through reflection on ritual and medical practice and theory. Papers focused on these often overlooked realms of discourse expand and challenge our understanding of the period.
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
Chair:
Alexander von Rospatt, UC Berkeley
Panelists:
Bryan J. Cuevas, Florida State University
On the Politics of Magical Warfare in Tibet: The Assault Sorcery of Zur the Omniscient and the Fifth Dalai Lama's Rise to Power in 1642
Jacob Dalton, Yale University
Historicizing the Ahistorical: Ritual Manuals as Historical Sources for the 17th Century
Janet Gyatso, Harvard University
Not Taking Their Word For It: Desi Sangye Gyatso and the Climate of 17th Century Tibetan Medicine
11:30 am-1:00 pm
Lunch Break
1:00-3:30 pm
Panel 2: "Portraits and Prophecies"
This panel focuses on art and literature in the eighteenth century, with a particular emphasis on the production and publication of literary and visual biographies and hagiographies.
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
Chair:
Robert Sharf, UC Berkeley
Panelists:
Nancy Lin, UC Berkeley
Lives in Miniature: Poetry and Painting at the Derge Court in the 18th Century
Matthew Kapstein, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris/University of Chicago
Gter ma as Imperial Treasure: Remarks on the Publication History of the Padma bka' thang in 18th-Century China
Benjamin Bogin, UC Berkeley
Ablaze among Barbarians: Rdo rje gro lod and the Tibetan Borderlands
Kurtis R. Schaeffer, University of Virginia
Biographers on their Art in Late 18th-Century Tibet
4:00-6:00 pm
Panel 3: Reincarnation and the State
This panel considers the Tibetan Buddhist practice of recognized reincarnations through papers focused on some of the reincarnate lamas whose lives and images were intimately involved in the Tibetan State of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
Chair:
Vesna Wallace, UC Santa Barbara
Panelists:
Irmgard Mengele, UC Santa Barbara
The Role of the Tenth Karma-pa Chos-dbyings-rdo-rje (1604-1674) in the Political Conflicts of 17th-Century Tibet
Patricia Berger, UC Berkeley
Reincarnation in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction: The Political Uses of the Narthang Panchen Lama Portaits
Derek Maher, East Carolina University
The Second Panchen Lama and State Power
Sunday, May 7
9:30-11:30 am
Panel 4: Transnational Crossroads
This panel focuses on aspects of Tibet's interactions with the dynamic social, political, and religious world of Central Asia and China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
Chair:
Tsering Shakya, University of British Columbia
Panelists:
Johan Elverskog, Southern Methodist University
Mongol Cosmopolitans and Qing Culture
Gray Tuttle, Columbia University
Building up the Gelukpa Base in Amdo: The Roles of Lhasa, Beijing and Local Agency
Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia
Sovereignties: Chinese/Manchu Conceptions Underpinning the Qing Invasion of Tibet, 1720