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.
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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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