The Battle for Fortune: State-led Development, Personhood and Power among Tibetans in China by Charlene Makley (Professor of Anthropology, Reed College) ©2018 Cornell University Press Anthropologist Charlene Makley is already known for her work...
Organized as a collaboration between the Centre for Himalayan Studies and the Southeast Asia Centre units of the French CNRS, a series of day-long thematic workshops in the comparative anthropology of Buddhism are held...
The Repkong county, in eastern Amdo (north-east Tibet / Qinghai province), is well known for its cults of place gods, known as luröl (Amdo: ləru [klu-rol]1) — among other aspects (see for instance here,...
In his study of the rituals of Newar Buddhism, although he privileges others categories for his analysis, David Gellner points out that “[t]he first and most important distinction for Newar Buddhists is that between...
Please join us for the following talk: The great collective rituals of the Repkong tantrists: Identity issues, and religious, economic and moral dimensions (in French) Nicolas Sihlé Thursday, December 1, 2011, 16-17h INALCO (National...
The phrase “mass monasticism” coined by Melvyn Goldstein1 is by now commonly used by specialists of Tibetan religion. As recently reformulated by Goldstein, it designates a monastic system characterized by “an emphasis on recruiting...
An international workshop entitled “Unity and Diversity: Monastic and Non-monastic Traditions in Amdo”, convened by Yangdon Dhondup (SOAS), Ulrich Pagel (SOAS) and Geoffrey Samuel (Cardiff University), was held from Friday, 30th September to Sunday,...
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