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 6:45 AM; return by 9 PM

[Popular Tibetan and Nepali Movies to be shown on road trip]

Morning Program

Afternoon Program

Expert Presentation: Lauran Hartley, Columbia University

Modern Tibetan Literature in Translation

Required Readings:

• Lauran Hartley, "Themes of Tradition and Change in Modern Tibetan           Literature," Lungta 12 (Summer 1999): 29-44.
  
• Selections from Song of the Snow Lion
  

• Steven Venturo, “Where is Tibet in World Literature” World Literature Today

• Bhum, Pema. Six Stars with a Crooked Neck: Tibetan Memoirs of the Cultural               Revolution. Dharamsala: Tibet Times, 2001.

• Tailing, W. The Secret Tale of Tesur House. Beijing: Tibetology Pub House, 1998.
  

• Norbu, Jamyang. Sherlock Homes: The Missing Years. NY: Bloomsbury, 1999.
                Alai. Red Poppies. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. (Chinese original)

Morning Program

Expert Presentation: Prof. Charles Ramble, Oxford University

Practices of Tibetan Buddhism; Traditions of the Tibetan Frontier Peoples

Required Readings:

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

Further Readings:

• David Holmberg, Order in Paradox: Myth, Ritual, and Exchange among Nepal’s Tamang  (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989).

Afternoon Program

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

Shamanism in the Himalayas

Required Readings:

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

• Anne de Sales, The Kham Magar Country, Nepal: Between Ethnic Claims and Maoism," European Bulletin of Himalayan Research 19, 41-71

Further Readings:

• John Hitchcock, John and Jones, Rex eds. Spirit Possession in the Nepal Himalayas (New Delhi: Vikas, 1976).

   

Morning Program

Expert Presentation: Prof. Lewis

Buddhism and Hinduism in the Kathmandu Valley

Required Readings:

• Todd Lewis, Popular Buddhist Texts from Nepal: Narratives and Rituals…

Afternoon Program

Expert Presentation: Naomi Bishop, Univ. of California

Buddhism among Tibeto-Burman Peoples

Video: "Himalayan Herders"

Required Readings:

• Naomi H. Bishop, Himalayan Herders. (NY: Harcourt Brace, 1998)

Morning Program

Expert Presentation: Expert Presentation, Sienna Craig, Dartmouth University

Tibetan Buddhism in Practice: Medicine and Healing

Required Reading:

• Matthew Kapstein, The Tibetans, 244-268
  
  
• Meyer, Fernand, 1995. "Theory and Practice in Tibetan Medicine" in Oriental Medicine: An Illustrated Guide to the Asian Arts of Healing, 109-141

Afternoon Program

Expert Presentation: Expert Presentation, Naresh Bajracharya, Lambini Buddhist University

Newar Buddhist Ritual-Making Stupas

Required Reading:

• Matthew Kapstein, The Tibetans, 244-268
  
  
• Meyer, Fernand, 1995. "Theory and Practice in Tibetan Medicine" in Oriental Medicine: An Illustrated Guide to the Asian Arts of Healing, 109-141

Early Evening Program

Campus Green: Newar Feast

5-7PM Workshop: A Newar Buddhist Feast and Making Nepalese Feast Foods