{"id":6208,"date":"2016-10-07T13:51:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T19:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/?p=6208"},"modified":"2016-10-07T13:51:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T19:51:13","slug":"kings-college-london-buddhist-studies-research-seminars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2016\/10\/kings-college-london-buddhist-studies-research-seminars.html","title":{"rendered":"King\u2019s College London – Buddhist Studies Research Seminars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

King\u2019s College London<\/strong><\/p>\n

Buddhist Studies Research Seminars<\/strong><\/p>\n

(2016-17)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Room VWB\u00a03.01 at 5.00pm<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Theology and Religious Studies<\/p>\n

Virginia Woolf Building<\/p>\n

22 Kingsway, London WC2B 6NR<\/p>\n

Friday 14 Oct 2016<\/u><\/p>\n

Tristram Riley-Smith (University of Cambridge)<\/p>\n

Buddhist God-Makers and their Gods: An Anthropology of Art<\/strong><\/p>\n

Abstract<\/p>\n

Tristram Riley-Smith is Director of Research in Politics &\u00a0International Studies, and Associate Fellow at the Centre for\u00a0Science & Policy, at Cambridge. He studied Social Anthropology,\u00a0undertaking doctoral and post-doctoral research in Nepal and\u00a0Thailand, making the film Birth of a Buddha. He spent thirty years in\u00a0Government Service, being posted to the British Embassy in\u00a0Washington DC in 2002. His portrait of the USA \u2013 The Cracked Bell:\u00a0America and the Afflictions of Liberty was published in 2010. Tristram\u00a0was appointed RCUK\u2019s External Champion for the Partnership in\u00a0Conflict, Crime and Security Research (PaCCS) in 2013.<\/p>\n

In 1979-80, Tristram Riley-Smith conducted ethnographic research\u00a0among Buddhist artists in the Kathmandu Valley, exploring the\u00a0beliefs and practices associated with god-sculptures. In 1984, he\u00a0travelled to Thailand \u2013 moving from a world of Tantric \u2018Vajrayana\u2019\u00a0Buddhism to that of Theravada Buddhism<\/a>, making the film Birth of\u00a0a Buddha. His focus was on the cultural life of the statues \u2013 the\u00a0social and symbolic value applied to these objects. He encountered\u00a0the impact of tourism on traditional art as well as the relationship\u00a0between Buddhism and older belief systems. He has made more\u00a0recent visits to the Himalayan kingdom of Mustang and to Japan\u00a0(where, this year, he conducted the Okaidan Meguri rite, walking a dark tunnel beneath the shrine-room to reach the \u2018key of paradise\u2019\u00a0with its secret Buddha beyond.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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(via Pyi Kyaw, Kings College London)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Friday 2 Dec 2016<\/u><\/p>\n

Phibul Choompolpaisal (King\u2019s College London\/Manuscripts Conservation Association)<\/p>\n

Where are Thai\/Tai Buddhist manuscripts? Preliminary research on Textual Archaelogy of Tai Buddhist manuscripts around the world<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Friday 27 Jan 2017<\/span><\/u><\/p>\n

Mark Owen (University of Winchester)<\/p>\n

Buddhist forms of Conflict Transformation<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Friday 17 Feb 2017<\/span><\/u><\/p>\n

Joachim Gentz (University of Edinburgh)<\/p>\n

Title to be confirmed<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Friday 17 March 2017<\/span><\/u><\/p>\n

Jane Caple (University of Manchester)<\/p>\n

The ethics of monastic business in contemporary Tibet<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

All welcome.<\/p>\n

Tea at 4.30 pm<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Please find the\u00a0details of the first talk attached.<\/p>\n

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Convenors:
\n<\/strong>Pyi Phyo Kyaw, pyi.kyaw@kcl.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

Andrew Skilton, andrew.skilton@kcl.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

Kindly sponsored by<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ji Xuegen Research Funding for Buddhist Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

For further updates and listings visit\u00a0http:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/artshums\/depts\/trs\/research\/seminars\/buddhist\/index.aspx<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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