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).
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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
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