Tuesday 24 February 2015 | Buddhism & Social Justice
Between Tibetan Monasticism and Society (Workshop)
This workshop is organized by the project on occasion of Berthe Janssen's defence of her dissertation 'The Monastery Rules: Buddhist Monastic Organization in Pre-modern Tibet' on the 24th of February.
| Time: 13.00-15.30
Venue: Conference Room (Huizinga Building), Doelensteeg 16, Leiden |
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Program:
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Ulrike Roesler (University of Oxford): "Another Kind of Monasticism? The Vinaya of the Bon tradition" |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Charles Ramble (University of Oxford): "A Jewel in the Rough: The Fortunes of the Sangha in the Barbarous Himalayan Borderlands" |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | tea break |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Jane Caple (University of Manchester): “The Moral Life of Money in a Tibetan Monastic Economy” |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Jonathan Samuels (University of Heidelberg): "50 Ways to Leave Your Monastery: Attitudes Toward Monastic Mobility in Tibetan Communities Then and Now" |
All interested are welcome to attend! Please send an email to confirm to s.burdorf.