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Art History, Buddhist Studies, Tibet: New Perspectives from the Tibet Site Seminar

 
 

 

March 7-9, 2008
Princeton University, 101 McCormick Hall


Friday, March 7
Keynote Lecture
4:30 Welcoming Remarks, Stephen F. Teiser
Keynote Address, Deborah Klimburg-Salter, A Translational Methodology: Towards a Study of Tibetan Art History
Reception
6:00-7:00 Reception, McCormick Lobby


Saturday, March 8
Introduction
9:00 Welcoming Remarks, Rob Linrothe

Panel 1
9:10-10:25 Papers
Stephanie Bogin, Through a Conservator’s Lens

Sarah Richardson, Patronage, Power and Paintings: The History of the Chenrezig Chapel at Shalu

Leigh Miller Sangster, Ways of Seeing Buddhas: Tibetan Visual Culture in the 8th-21st Centuries

10:25-10:55 Response by Marylin Rhie and Discussion
10:55-11:15 Coffee Break, McCormick Lobby

Panel 2
11:15-12:30 Papers
Nancy Lin, Remaking Buddhist Hagiographies in Eighteenth-Century Tibet

Ariana Maki, Lineage, Legitimacy and Pedigree in Lhasa’s Lukhang Temple

Orna Uranchimeg-Tsultem, Jebzundamba’s Visual Hagiographies

12:30-1:00 Response by E. Gene Smith and Discussion

Panel 3
2:45-4:00 Papers
Wen-shing Chou, Painted Peregrinations of Wutaishan and Sacred Cosmography in Early Modern Tibet

Damchö Diana Finnegan, Vinaya on Display: Tibetan Murals Representing Monastic Practices and Material Culture

Ben Wood, The “Endurance World-System” (mi mjed kyi 'jig rten gyi khams) in Tibetan Temple Murals

4:00-4:15 Coffee Break, McCormick Lobby
4:15-4:45 Response by Janet Gyatso and Discussion


Sunday, March 9
Panel 4
9:00-10:15 Papers
Brid Arthur, Magnificent Grotto: Dragla Lugug Temple of Chakpori

Yashaswini Chandra, Western Tibetan Painting Traditions of the 15th to 18th Century

Maggie Mei Kei Hui, Circumambulation: A Bodily Spatial Transformation in the Everyday Life of Tibetan Religious Devotion

10:15-10:30 Coffee Break, McCormick Lobby
10:30-11:00 Response by Deborah Klimburg-Salter and Discussion

Roundtable Discussion
11:15-12:30 Roundtable Discussion