Tibet
Yasmin ChoGray Tuttle
Gray Tuttle
LEILA HADLEY LUCE ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MODERN TIBETAN STUDIES
Office: 913 IAB
Office Hours: T 2:00-3:00, or by appointment
Teaching Hours: TR 1:00-2:25, T 4:00-6:00
Phone: (212) 854-4096
Email: gwt2102@columbia.edu
Educational Background
BA: Princeton University (’91)
MA: Harvard University (’96)
PhD: Harvard University (’02)
Classes Taught
ASCE UN1365 Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: Tibet
EARL GU4310 Life Writing in Tibetan Buddhism
HSEA GU4720 20th Century Tibetan History
Research Interests
Tibetan History & Religion
Gray Tuttle studies the history of twentieth century Sino-Tibetan relations as well as Tibet’s relations with the China-based Manchu Qing Empire. The role of Tibetan Buddhism in these historical relations is central to all his research. In his Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China (Columbia UP, 2005), he examines the failure of nationalism and race-based ideology to maintain the Tibetan territory of the former Qing empire as integral to the Chinese nation-state. Instead, he argues, a new sense of pan-Asian Buddhism was critical to Chinese efforts to hold onto Tibetan regions (one quarter of China’s current territory). His current research project, “Amdo Tibet, Middle Ground between Lhasa and Beijing (1578-1865),” is a historical analysis of the economic and cultural relations between China and Tibet in the early modern periods (16th – 19th centuries) when the intellectual and economic centers of Tibet shifted to the east, to Amdo — a Tibetan cultural region the size of France in northwestern China. Deploying Richard White’s concept of the “Middle Ground” in the context of two mature civilizations — Tibetan and Chinese — encountering one another, this book will examine how this contact led to three dramatic areas of growth that defined early modern Tibet: 1) the advent of mass monastic education, 20 the bureaucratization of reincarnate lamas’ charisma and 3) the development of modern conceptions of geography that reshaped the way Tibet was imagined.
Selected Publications
“An Unknown Tradition of Han Chinese Conversion to Tibetan Buddhism: Han Chinese Incarnate Lamas and Parishoners of Tibetan Buddhist Temples in Amdo, Zangxue xuekan/Journal of Tibetology (2014)
Sources of Tibetan Tradition (co-editor, Columbia, 2013)
The Tibetan History Reader (co-editor, Columbia, 2013)
Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China (Columbia, 2005)
Konchog Tseten
Konchog Tseten
ADJUNCT LECTURER IN TIBETAN
Office:
Office Hours:
Teaching Hours: MW 11:00-12:50
Phone:
Email: kt2590@columbia.edu
Educational Background
MA: Tibetan Medicine, Qinghai Tibetan Medical College
BA: Northwest Normal University
Classes Taught
TIBT UN1410 First Year Classical Tibetan I
TIBT UN1411 First Year Classical Tibetan II
Research Interests
Tibetan Language
Konchog Tseten is originally from Rebgong (Qinghai, PRC) where he earned his language teaching certificate at the Rebgong Prefecture Teacher Training School. He later earned a BA at Northwest Normal University and a Master’s Degree in Tibetan medicine from Qinghai Tibetan Medical College. He taught Tibetan language for two years at the Gendun Chophel Middle School and has assisted researchers and anthropologists in collecting and interpreting field materials in Amdo (Tibet). Since 2015 he has taught Classical Tibetan language at Columbia University. He is currently a student of eastern medicine at the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, NYC.
