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Rubin and Columbia Conference, April 5-6, Tibetan Buddhism and Political Power
in the Courts of Asia
by William Dewey
We would like to remind you that tickets
are available for the Rubin Museum’s upcoming spring conference,
co-organized with Columbia University. Join us Saturday, April 6, for an academic conference held in conjunction with the exhibition Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism, on view February 1 through July 15, 2019. We will
kick off the conference with a reception and tour of the exhibition on Friday,
April 5.
This international conference will examine Tibetan Buddhism’s dynamic political role in history as a major catalyst in moving the religion beyond Tibet’s borders to its Tangut, Mongol, Chinese, and Manchu neighbors. Our schedule is now finalized, as you can see below:
This international conference will examine Tibetan Buddhism’s dynamic political role in history as a major catalyst in moving the religion beyond Tibet’s borders to its Tangut, Mongol, Chinese, and Manchu neighbors. Our schedule is now finalized, as you can see below:
Friday April 5
6-8pm Social
reception and tour of the exhibition “Faith & Empire”
Saturday April 6
9-9:30am Registration
9:30-10:15 Keynote Address
Tsering Shakya (University of
British Columbia) “Yellow Hats and Golden Countenances: Tibetan Buddhism
and Empire”
10:15-12:15 Political Legitimacy
and Birth/Spread of Empires
Gendun Tenpa (Dargye Museum,
Chengdu) “Tsongkha Kingdom as mediator between the Tibetan Empire and Tangut
Xixia”
Kurtis Schaefer (University of
Virginia) "Scripture, Politics, and War in the Age of the Fifth Dalai
Lama”
Nancy Lin (University of
California, Berkeley) "Two Models of Lay Buddhist Kingship at the Court of
Miwang Polhané"
Wen-shing Chou (Hunter College)
“Visualizing Emperor as Guru: Kingship and Devotion in Qing-Dynasty China”
Respondent: Chris Atwood
(University of Pennsylvania)
12:15-1:30 Lunch Break
1:30-2:50 pm Militant Lamas and
Magical Warfare
Bryan J. Cuevas (Florida State
University) “The Politics of Magical Warfare”
Carl Yamamoto (Towson University)
“Vanquishing the Enemies of the Teachings: Tantra and Warfare According to
Zhang Tselpa”
Karma Phuntsho (Loden Foundation,
Bhutan) “Mahākāla and Magic in the Making of Bhutan”
Respondent: Karl Debreczeny (Rubin
Museum of Art)
2:50-3:00 Break
3:00-4:40 Systems of Power and
Control of knowledge
Eveline Washul (Columbia
University) “The Three Chol kha of Tibet: Sakya Narratives of Power
after the Mongol Yuan”
William Dewey (Rubin Museum of
Art) “Mlecchas at the Gates: The Dharma King and his Enemies According
to Taranatha”
Lan Wu (Mount Holyoke College) “Paths to Knowledge: Beijing's Yonghegong and Qing Mongolian
Buddhists in the Eighteenth Century”
Riga Shakya (Columbia University)
“Entangled Objects: Gift, Reciprocity and the Making of the Imperial Subject in
18th Century Tibet”
Respondent: Gray Tuttle (Columbia
University)
4:40-4:50 Break
4:50-5:30 Concluding Remarks
Patricia Berger (University of
California, Berkeley)
