Morning Program

Expert Presentation: Profs. Todd Lewis and Leonard van der Kujip

Practical Orientation and Overview of the Curriculum Geology and the Physical Geography of the Regions; Frontier Zone Theory Central Place and Trade Theory; Major Culture Regions: Kashmir, Nepal, Tibet

Powerpoint Slides

Core Readings:

• Lewis and Riccardi, The Himalayas: A Syllabus …, 5-40, Part II
• Peter Molnar and Paul Tapponnier, “The Collision between India and Eurasia,” Scientific American, Volume 236 (4), 1977, 30-41. (ERES)
• Gerald Berreman, "Cultures and Peoples of the Himalayas," Asian Survey 1963: 289-30” (ERES)

Afternoon Program

Expert Presentation: Profs. Todd Lewis and Leonard van der Kujip

Orientalism and the Study of the Himalayas; The Himalayas in the Buddhist Imagination

Powerpoint Slides

Core Readings:

• excerpt from Martin Brauen, Dreamworld Tibet: Western Illusions. NY: Weatherhill, 2004 (ERES)
• excerpt from Donald Lopez, Prisoners of Shangri-La. (Chicago: Chicago Univ Press, 1999) (ERES)
• excerpt from Peter Bishop, The Myth of Shangri-La (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1989) (ERES)

Further Readings:

• Edward Said, Orientalism (NY: Vintage, 1979)
• Orville Schell. Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La... (New York: Holt, 2000.

Welcoming Dinner/Workshop: Making Tibetan Foods
Hogan Center

Morning Program

Expert Presentation I: Prof. Todd Lewis

Ancient History of Nepal: The Licchavi Period

Powerpoint Slides

Core Readings:

• Todd T. Lewis and Theodore Riccardi, Jr., The Himalayas, A syllabus, Chapter 8
• Riccardi, Theordore, Jr. "Buddhism in Ancient and Medieval Nepal," in A.K. Narain ed Studies in the History of Buddhism. New Delhi, 1979, 265-281(ERES)

Expert Presentation II: Prof. Bill Waldron, Middlebury College

Madhyamaka and Yogacara

Powerpoint Buddhism Intro

Powerpoint NEH Madhyamaka & Yogacara

Afternoon Program

Expert Presentation: Prof. Leonard van der Kuijp

Regional Prehistory; Ancient Tibet and the Introduction of Buddhism

Core Readings:

• Matthew T. Kapstein, The Tibetans, 1-83

Morning Program

Expert Presentation: Todd Lewis

Early Buddhism in Kashmir and Gandhara

Powerpoint Slides

Core Readings:

• Kaul, Advaitavadini. "Buddhism in Kashmir," and "Contributions of Kashmiri Scholars to Buddhist Literature (ERES)

Afternoon Program

Expert Presentation: Prof. Jonathan Silk, Leiden University

Mahayana Buddhism: New Insights from Recent Scholarship

Core Readings:

• Patrul Rimpoche, Words of My Perfect Teacher. (Walnut Creek: Altamira Press, 1998)
• Jonathan Silk, "What, if Anything, is 'Mahayana Buddhism?' ..." Numen 49, 1999. (ERES)
• D. Seyfort Ruegg, "Aspects of the Study of the (Earlier) Indian Mahayana" Journal of the International Association of the Buddhist Studies 27, 2004 (ERES)
• Shinzuka, Sasaki. "A Basic Approach for Research on the Origins of Mahayana Buddhism" (ERES)
• Gregory Schopen, "Mahayana" in Robert Buswell, ed. The Encyclopedia of Buddhism. (NY: Macmillan, 2004), 492-499 (ERES)

Morning Program

Expert Presentation: Prof. Leonard van der Kuijp

The Second Era of Tibetan buddhism, 1000-1650

Core Readings:

• Matthew Kapstein, The Tibetans, 84-174
• Tsepon W.D. Shakabpa, "Emergence of the Dalai Lamas" and "The Seventh Dalai Lama and the Beginning of the Manchu Influence in Tibet" (ERES)

Afternoon Program

Expert Presentation: Prof. David B. Gray, Santa Clara University

Vajrayana Buddhism: Cakrasamvara Tantra

Core Readings:

• Chapters 1-4 from David gray, The Cakrasamvara Tantra. NY: Columbia Univ. Press, 2007. (ERES)
• David Gray, "The Cakrasamvara Tantra: Its History, Interpretation, and Practice in India and Tibet." (ERES)

Morning Program

Expert Presentation: Prof. Janice Willis, Wesleyan University

Mahayana and Vajrayana Meditation Rituals of Avalokiteshvara and Tara

Core Readings:

• Janet Gyatso, "An Avalokiteshvara Sadhana" in Donald Lopez, ed. Religions of Tibet in Practice. Princeton University Press, 1997, 266-270. (ERES)
• Roger Jackson, "A Fasting Ritual," [Nyungne], in Donald Lopez, ed. Religions of Tibet in Practice. Princeton University Press, 1997, 271-292. (ERES)
• Peter Harvey, "Buddhist Practice: Meditation and the Development of Wisdom," from An Introduction to Buddhism.
• Todd Lewis, "The Tara Vrata" in Popular Buddhist Texts from Nepal, Chapter 4

Further Readings:

• Stephan Beyer, The Cult of Tara: Magic and Ritual in Tibet.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973 and 1978.
• Kathleen McDonald, How to Meditate: A Practical Guide. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1984 and 2005.
• Lillian Too, The Buddha Book. London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003.
• Martin Wilson, In Praise of Tara: Songs to the Saviouress. London: Wisdom, 1986.
• Lama Thubten Yeshe, Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire. Boston: Wisdom Publication, 1987 and 2001.
• Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, trans., Nyung Na: The Means of Achievement of the Eleven-Faced Great Compassionate One, Avalokiteshvara, Wisdom Publications, 1995.

Afternoon Program

Expert Presentation: Prof. Kurtis Schaeffer, University of Virginia

Studies in Medieval Tibetan Buddhism; Teaching the Tibetan Book of the Dead

Core Readings:

• Matthew Kapstein, The Tibetans, 175-243
• Kurtis Schaeffer, Himalayan Hermitess: The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun.

Further Readings:

• David Snellgrove, Indo-Tibetan Buddhism (Boston: Shambhala, 1987), Pts 1/2