lunes, 20 de agosto de 2018


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

As part of the 2018 UBEF Visiting Professorship in Buddhist Studies, Professor Lara Braitstein will deliver a public talk on Wednesday 29 August 6:30pm-8:00pm in S226 Seminar Room (Level 2, entry off Manning Road), John Woolley Buidling (A20), University of Sydney.

For an updated pdf brochure of the UBEF Visiting Professorship in Buddhist Studies, please click here.

We hope you can attend this talk.

Kind regards,
AABS Executive


Authorising Learning: On Approaching the Study of Buddhism in Traditional Tibetan and Academic Contexts

Co-presented with the Asian Studies Program in the School of Languages and Cultures, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and the Australasian Association of Buddhist Studies

There has been much excellent scholarship published on the history of ‘Buddhist Studies’ as a field, often pointing to its roots in colonial era modes of knowledge production and striving to develop new methods that break out of that mold. This may be fruitfully contrasted with traditional Tibetan modes of knowledge production in the study of Buddhism. It is one matter to compare and contrast these models of learning and authority theoretically or historically, and another matter entirely to live and work with a foot in each of these worlds. Authorising Learning draws on six years of experience teaching, administering, designing and implementing curriculum reform in Tibetan institutes of higher learning in South Asia, that combine these two strikingly different pedagogical models.


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).

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