[Buddha-l] Situ Panchen: Creation and Cultural Engagement in 18th-CenturyTibet, Feb 2009

[jkirk]

 Anyone in the NYC area might like to attend this conference.
Joanna

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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor:  Jan 2009, Vol. 16, No. 1 (291)
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14 Jan 2009

Situ Panchen: Creation and Cultural Engagement in 18th-Century
Tibet, Feb 2009

The Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY, US.

Supplied note:
"The Rubin Museum of Art is organizing its first scholarly
conference, 'Situ Panchen: Creation and Cultural Engagement in
18th-Century Tibet,' February 7 and 8, 2009. The brilliant
polymath Situ Panchen Chokyi Jungne (1700-1774) was influential
in multiple domains of cultural and institutional life in
18th-century Tibet. Situ made major contributions to the fields
of painting, the literary arts, and medicine. He was also a
charismatic leader during a particularly volatile period in
Tibetan history, as well as the senior court chaplain in the
culturally significant Kingdom of Derge on the Sino- Tibetan
border.
We have invited eight scholars to present on the many aspects of
his cultural production and engagement with the social world of
his time in their respective fields, including: patronage and
print culture, authenticity and Indic roots, artistic impact in
China, politics and sectarian relations, medicine, and literary
scholarship. We hope that such a well-rounded and
multidisciplinary approach will constitute a significant
contribution to an understanding of Tibetan intellectual history
in the pivotal 18th century.

The conference schedule, abstracts, and registration information
can be found at: [the URL below] [...].

This program coincides with opening weekend of the exhibition
'Patron and Painter: Situ Panchen and the Revival of the
Encampment Style' (February 6-August 17 [2009]) at the Rubin
Museum of Art:
http://www.rmanyc.org/exhibitions/upcoming.xml?context=exhibition
s/upcoming.xml

The conference is being held in conjunction with Columbia
University's 'Tibet and the Social Sciences Workshop'
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/eastasian/Tibetan/
  We hope that these two back-to-back events will draw the
academic community into NYC for this exciting weekend of
programming! - kd."

Site contents:
* Program: Sat, February 7, 2009; * Program: Sun, February 8,
2009;
* Conference Abstracts: (# Remi Chaix (Societes et Cultures en
Himalaya, CNRS, Paris) - Situ Panchen and the House of Derge: A
Demanding but Beneficial Relationship, # Karl Debreczeny (Rubin
Museum of Art) - Situ Panchen' s Artistic Legacy in Yunnan, #
Frances Garrett (University of Toronto) - Medical Literature in
the Situ Panchen Tradition, # Nancy G. Lin (University of
California, Berkeley) - Situ Panchen and the Re-enactment of
Buddhist Origins, # Jann Ronis (University of Virginia) - Situ
Panchen and Sectarian Relations in Eighteenth-Century Derge:
Precursor to the Ecumenical Movement (ris med), # Kurtis R.
Schaeffer (University of Virginia) - Situ the Scholar).

URL http://www.rmanyc.org/situpanchen

Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at
the time of this abstract]

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