Morning Program

Expert Presentation: Prof. Leonard van der Kuijp

The History of Tibet through the Modern Period

Core Readings:

• Melvyn Goldstein, The Snow Lion and the Dragon (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1997)
• Matthew Kapstein, The Tibetans, 269-300
• Martin Brauen, “The Dalai Lamas” (ERES)

Further Readings:

• Melvyn Goldstein, A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-195.  Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1989
• A History of Modern Tibet, II: 1951-1955. Berkeley: Univ. of California, 2007.

Afternoon Program

Expert Presentation: Prof. Dina Bangdel, Virginia Commonwealth University

Art and Architecture of Nepal and Tibet

Powerpoint - Art of Tibet
Powerpoint - Art of Newar Buddhism
Powerpoint - Contemporary Tibetan Art

Core Readings:

• Excerpts from Michael Hutt, Nepal: A Guide to the Art and Architecture of the Kathmandu Valley. (Boston: Shambhala, 1994.) (ERES)
• Robert E. Fisher, The Art of Tibet (London: Thames and Hudson, 1997).

Further Readings:

• Mary Slusser, Nepal Mandala (Princeton University Press, 1982).
• Marylin M. Rhie and Robert Thurman, Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet (New York: Harry Abrams, 1996).
• David and Janice Jackson, Tibetan Thangka Painting: Methods and Materials. 2nd ed. (Ithaca: Snow Lion Press, 1988).

Morning Program

Expert Presentation: Charles Ramble, Oxford University

Mustang, a Frontier Kingdom in Nepal and the Bön-Buddhism Nexus

Powerpoint Slides

Core Readings:

• Charles Ramble, The Navel of the Demoness: Tibetan Buddhism and Civil Religion in HighlandNepal. (NY: Oxford University Press, 2008) or
• “The People of Mustang and their History,” from The Navel of the Demoness: Tibetan Buddhism and Civil Religion in Highland Nepal. (NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 2008) (ERES)

Afternoon Program

Expert Presentation: Anne de Sales, C. National de la Recherché Scientifique

Himalayan Shamanism and Buddhism

Powerpoint slides

Core Readings:

• Mumford, Stan Royal. Himalayan Dialogue: Tibetan Lamas and Gurung Shamans in Nepal. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989, chapters 3-7

Further Readings:

• Anna Balikci, Lamas, Shamans and Ancestors. Village Religion in Sikkim. Leiden: Brill, 2008.

Morning Program

Expert Presentation: Prof. Todd Lewis  

Hinduism and Buddhism in Nepal; Newars and Tibetans in the Kathmandu Valley

Powerpoint Hindu-Buddhist Relations
Powerpoint Newars and Tibetans in the Kathmandu Valley

Core Readings:

• Todd Lewis, "Newars and Tibetans in the Kathmandu Valley: Ethnic Boundaries and Religious History" Journal of Asian and African Studies 38, 1989, 31-57. (ERES)

Afternoon Program

Expert Presentation: Dr. Sarah LeVine, Harvard University

Buddhism in the Kathmandu Valley Today: Theravada Householders & Nuns

Powerpoint Slides

Core Readings:

•  Sarah LeVine and David Gellner,  Rebuilding Buddhism: The Theravada Movement in Twentieth-Century Nepal. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005.) Chapters 1, 9 (ERES)
• Sarah LeVine, in “The Saint of Kathmandu: Treading Where the Buddha Trod,” in Sarah LeVine, The Saint of Kathmandu and Other Tales of the Sacred in Distant Lands. Beacon Press, 2008. (ERES)

Further Readings:

• Ellison Banks Findly, ed. Women’s Buddhism, Buddhism’s Women: Tradition, Revision, Renewal. Wisdom Publications, 2000.

Morning Program

Expert Presentation: Prof. Gray Tuttle, Columbia University

Tibetan Buddhism in Chinese History

Ethnic Diversity in China
Tibetan Buddhism in Beijing
Tibetan Buddhism at Wutaishan

Core Readings:

• Gray Tuttle, Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.

Further Readings:

• Patricia Berger. 1994. Preserving the Nation: The Political Uses of Tantric Art in China. In Latter Days of the Law: Images of Chinese Buddhism 85-1850. Lawrence: Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas. pp. 89-125. (ERES)
• Grey Tuttle, "An Unknown Tradition of Chinese Conversion to Tibetan Buddhism: Chinese Incarnate Lamas and Parishioners of Tibetan Buddhist Temples in Amdo." In Negotiating Identity Amongst the Religious Minorities in Asia.Edited by Avrum Ehrlich. Lieden: Brill. Forthcoming.  (ERES)
• _____. "Shambhala: The Politics of Messianic Tibetan Buddhism in Modern China." In L'image du Tibet aux XIXeme-XXeme siecles/ The Image of Tibet in the 19th and 20th centuries. Edited by Monica Esposito. Paris: Ecole Françoise de Extreme-Orient. 2009. (ERES)
• _____. "Translating Buddhism from Tibetan to Chinese in early 20th Century China (1931-1951)." In Buddhism between China and Tibet. Matthew Kapstein, ed. Boston: Wisdom. 2009: 241-279. (ERES)

Afternoon Program

Expert Presentation: Prof. David Germano, University of Virginia

Workshop on Web Resources on the Tibetan and Himalayan Regions
Tibetan Buddhism from 1950 and Today

Core Readings:

• Melvyn Goldstein, et al. The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1997).

Morning Program

Expert Presentation: Prof. Todd Lewis

Teaching the Dharma with Traditional Biographies of the Buddha and Story Narratives

Powerpoint Slides

Core Readings:

• Popular Buddhist Texts from Nepal Chapters 2, 3 and 5.
• Readings from the Jātakas, in translations from Nepal and Tibet (ERES)
  

Afternoon Program

Forum: Profs. Lewis, van der Kuijp, Germano

Incorporating Himalayan Buddhism-s into the Undergraduate Courses