miércoles, 1 de agosto de 2018

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Australasian Association of Buddhist Studies (AABS)
Dear list members,

Professor Lara Braitstein from McGill University (Montreal) is the holder of the 2018 University Buddhist Education Foundation (UBEF) Visiting Professorship in Buddhist Studies. As part of this Professorship, she will deliver a series of lectures, all of which will take place in the SOPHI Common Room, Level 8, Brennan MacCallum Building (A18) at the University of Sydney.

In her first two lectures, Professor Braitstein will address the challenges presented by translating a text no longer extant in its original language, and which has generated no commentarial tradition. The remaining lectures address the controversy surrounding the lives and deaths of the 9th and 10th Shamarpas and provides a fascinating case study of the challenges, dangers, and mysteries of the reincarnate Lama system. She also provides a genealogy of the Tibetan and English sources that describe the 10th Shamarpa and his role in the Tibet-Nepal Wars of 1790-92. Sources on the subject in both languages date back to the late 18th century and have continued to be produced into the 21st century.

For a pdf brochure of these events, please click here.

We hope you can attend this program.

Kind regards,
AABS Executive


Saraha, the Siddhas, and Esoteric Poetry

Thursday 2 August 4:30pm-6pm
Contextualising Saraha’s Adamantine Songs

Thursday 9 August 4pm-5pm
Translating Saraha’s Adamantine Songs
Co-presented with the Translatability of Cultures Reading Group, SLC


The 10th Shamarpa, the Tibet-Nepal Wars of the Late 18th Century

Thursday 16 August 4:30pm-6pm
Recognising the Shamarpa

Thursday 23 August 4:30pm-6pm
10th Shamarpa: The Man

Thursday 30 August 4:30pm-6pm
10th Shamarpa: The Sources



Lara Braitstein is Associate Professor of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism at McGill University. She was also Principal of an international Buddhist Institute (K.I.B.I. New Delhi) from 2013-2018. She specialises in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhist Philosophy, Buddhist Hagiography, and Tibetan/ Himalayan Buddhist literature and historiography. She is the author of The Adamantine Songs: Study, Translation, and Tibetan Critical Edition (Columbia UP), a study of Saraha's circa 9th century Mahamudra poems, and various journal articles. She also translated a contemporary commentary to the famed Tibetan Buddhist Mind Training, The Path to Awakening (Delphinium Press). Her recent research is a study dedicated to untangling the history and representation of the 10th Shamarpa Chodrup Gyatso (1742-92).


UBEF Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies

Lara Braitstein is the 7th holder of the University Buddhist Education Foundation (UBEF) Visiting Professorship in Buddhist Studies. This Professorship was established at the University of Sydney in 2009 through the generosity of the UBEF for the purpose of sponsoring an extended visit to Sydney of a distinguished international scholar in any field of Buddhist Studies, in order to expose students and academics to current trends in research and to raise the profile of Buddhist Studies in Australia. It is administered by the Department of Indian Subcontinental Studies in the School of Languages and Cultures.

Buddhist reliquary stupa

Gold leaf covered schist reliquary in the form of a stupa.  Kusana period, North Western India. National Museum, Karachi, Pakistan. Copyright: Huntington, John C. and Susan L.Huntington Archive