Excursion to Rubin Museum for Tibetan Art and the Karmapa Monastery
Museum Program hosted by Curators and Educators of the Museums
Departure from the College at 8 AM; return by 9 PM

[Popular Tibetan and Nepali Movies to be shown en route]

Morning Program

Afternoon Program

Expert Presentation: Naresh Bajracarya, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

A Newar Buddhist Ritual: Making Stupas for Fun and Merit

Core Readings:                        

• Naresh Bajracarya, “The Guru-mandala-Arcana” *
• John Locke, “The Uposatha Vrata of Amoghapasa in Nepal,” L’Ethnographie 83
  (100-101), 159-189.

Evening Program: Prof. Lewis and Prof. Bajracarya

5-8PM: Workshop on Making Nepalese Foods and a Newar feast

Core Reading:

• "Nepami Bhoya"

Morning Program

Afternoon Program

Expert Presentation: Prof. Sienna Craig, Dartmouth University

Tibetan Buddhism in Practice: Medicine and Healing

Core Readings:

• Matthew Kapstein, The Tibetans, 244-268
• Meyer, Fernand, 1995. "Theory and Practice in Tibetan Medicine" in A. Aris, eds. Oriental Medicine: An Illustrated Guide to the Asian Arts of Healing. London: Serendia Publications, pp. 109-141.  *
• Vincanne Adams, Mona Schrempf and Sienna R. Craig, "Chapter 1 Introduction: Medicine in Translation between Science and Religion," in Medicine Between Science and Religion: Rxplorations on Tibetan Grounds (New York: Berghahn Books, 2010).

Morning Program

Expert Presentation: Prof. Lewis

Buddhist Literature: Traditional Biographies of Buddha and Story Narratives

Core Readings:

• Todd Lewis and Subarna Man Tuladhar, trans. Sugata Saurabha: An Epic Poem from Nepal on the Life of the Buddha by Chittadhar Hridaya. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010)
• Readings from the Jatakas, in Translations from Nepal and Tibet

Afternoon Program

Expert Presentation: Prof. Mat Schmalz, Holy Cross

Christianity in South Asia and in the Himalayas

Core Readings:

• Selections from Trent Pomplun, Jesuit on the Roof of the World: Ippolito
  Desideri’s Mission to Tibet. NY: Oxford University Press, 2009
• Selections from Michael Sweet, trans. Mission to Tibet: The Extraordinary 18th Century Account of Father Ippolito Desideri, S. J., (Boston: Wisdom, 2010)
• "Of the Grand Lama, Chief of This Religion" (pp. 297-300)
• "Persuasive Reasons Why the Above-Mentioned Creation of a New Grand Lama is the Direct Work of the Devil" (pp.301-310)
• "Reply to the Arguments of Those Who Judge the Above-Mentioned Deception to Be the Artifice of Men and Not of the Devil" (pp.311-317)

Further Readings:

• Corrine G. Dempsey and Selva J. Raj, Christianity in India: Riting Between the Lines (Albany: SUNY Press, 2005)
• Robert Eric Frykenberg, Christianity in India, From Beginnings to the Present. NY: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Morning Program

Expert Presentation: Jim Fisher, Carleton College


Patterns of Change in the Tibetan Highlands

Core Reading:

• Excerpt from James Fisher, Sherpas: Reflections on Change in Himalayan Nepal (Berkeley: University of California, 1990).

Afternoon Program

Expert Presentation: Prof. David Smith, University of Minnesota

Contemporary Human Ecology: Tigers and Humans

Core Reading:

• Zurick, Illustrated Atlas of the Himalaya, 09-98

Further Reading:

• Eric Eckholm. Losing Ground: Environmental Stress and World Food Problems
  (New York: Norton, 1976).