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 will be...

Following the earlier publication of a special issue of Cultural Anthropology on the same theme, during two days, on 14-15 May 2012, the conference “Tibet is Burning. Self-Immolations: Ritual or Political Protest?“, organized at...

Special issue of the journal Cultural Anthropology on the self-immolations in Tibet, co-edited by Carole McGranahan and Ralph Litzinger, published on 9 April 2012, http://www.culanth.org/?q=node%2F526 Tibet has no history of self-immolation as sacrifice, religious...

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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