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Conference/Symposium - USA & Canada

Moving Borders — Tibet in Interaction With its Neighbors

Asia Society
725 Park Avenue at 70th Street,
New York, USA
May 04, 2018


Detail: Peripheral Visions: An Indian Buddha in the Tibetan Imaginary

India holds a central place in the story of Buddhism’s arrival to Tibet, even as it lies on the geographic periphery of the Himalayan plateau. Peripheral Visions explores images, texts, and narratives of Buddha Sakyamuni’s life from the Tibetan monastery of Jonang Puntsokling, the seat of the acclaimed Buddhist master Taranatha (1575-1634). This extraordinary program of literary and visual works, executed by Taranatha in the early seventeenth century and examined by Giuseppe Tucci some three centuries later, projected the presence and prestige of a distinctly Indian Buddha onto the Tibetan landscape.

Andrew Quintman of Yale University gives the Keynote Address to introduce a day-long symposium which will focus on the topic of the moving borders of the Tibetan cultural zone across the centuries from the imperial period to the present, including the Western exploration of Tibet.

Phone No.: 212-288-6400
Contact Email: [email protected]
Site URL: https://asiasociety.org/new-york/events/keynote-moving-borders-tibet-interaction-its-neighbors



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