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SUMMARY:MTSP Book Launch: Lineages of the Literary: Tibetan Buddhist Polymaths of Socialist China (Columbia University Press\, 2021) － author Nicole Willock in conversation with Gray Tuttle
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \n  \nNicole Willock(Ph.D. in Tibetan Studies and Religious Studies\, Indiana University) is an associate professor of Asian Religions at Old Dominion University in Norfolk\, Virginia. Her research examines the intersections between Tibetan literature\, Buddhist modernism\, moral agency\, and state-driven secularization projects in twentieth-century China. She serves as co-chair of the Tibet and Himalayan Religions Unit of the American Academy of Religion. \nGray Tuttle\, Leila Hadley Luce Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies at Columbia University and author of ​​Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China (CUP\, 2007)\, will serve as moderator and discussant. \nIn the aftermath of the cataclysmic Maoist period\, three Tibetan Buddhist scholars living and working in the People’s Republic of China became intellectual heroes. Renowned as the “Three Polymaths\,” Tséten Zhabdrung (1910–1985)\, Mugé Samten (1914–1993)\, and Dungkar Lozang Trinlé (1927–1997) earned this symbolic title for their efforts to keep the lamp of the Dharma lit even in the darkest hour of Tibetan history. \nLineages of the Literary reveals how the Three Polymaths negotiated the political tides of the twentieth century\, shedding new light on Sino-Tibetan relations and Buddhism during this turbulent era. Nicole Willock explores their contributions to reviving Tibetan Buddhism\, expanding Tibetan literary arts\, and pioneering Tibetan studies as an academic discipline. Her sophisticated reading of Tibetan-language sources vivifies the capacious literary world of the Three Polymaths\, including autobiography\, Buddhist philosophy\, poetic theory\, and historiography. Whereas prevailing state-centric accounts place Tibetan religious figures in China in one of two roles\, collaborator or resistance fighter\, Willock shows how the Three Polymaths offer an alternative model of agency. She illuminates how they by turns safeguarded\, taught\, and celebrated Tibetan Buddhist knowledge\, practices\, and institutions after their near destruction during the Cultural Revolution. \nAn interdisciplinary work spanning religious studies\, history\, literary studies\, and social theory\, Lineages of the Literary offers new insight into the categories of religion and the secular\, the role of Tibetan Buddhist leaders in modern China\, and the contested ground of Tibet. For more information about the book\, please click here. \nThis event is one of two book launches organized by the Modern Tibetan Studies Program this fall\, and is co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the C.V. Starr East Asian Library\, Columbia University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nContact Information\nAthina Fontenot\naf3018@columbia.edu\n\n REGISTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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