AAR, San Diego 2014 Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group Panels and Papers of Interest
A22-120 Contemplative Studies Group Theme: Maps of Transformation: Ox Herding, Horse Taming, and Stages on the Contemplative Path Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Benjamin Bogin, Georgetown University Taming the Elephant of the Mind in Tibet
A22-103 Tantric Studies Group Theme: Funerary Practices in Tantric Traditions Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Nina Mirnig, Austrian Academy of Sciences Saving the Unfortunates: A Tantric Rite to Rescue the Dead
Rory Lindsay, Harvard University Necroliberation in Early Sakyapa Funerary Manuals
A22-205 Buddhism Section, Tantric Studies Group, Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group, and Yoga in Theory and Practice Group Theme: Roundtable Discussion of Christian Wedemeyer's Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism: History, Semiology, and Transgression in the Indian Traditions (Columbia University Press, 2013) Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Panelists: Gudrun Bühnemann, University of Wisconsin David G. White, University of California, Santa Barbara Ronald M. Davidson, Fairfield University David DiValerio, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Responding: Christian K. Wedemeyer, University of Chicago
A22-222 Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Group and Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group Theme: Religion and Constructions of Violent Alterity Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Chipamong Chowdhury, University of Toronto Genocidal Violence, Conflict, and Communalism: Anti-Buddhist Violence in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (Bangladesh)
A22-344 Religion and the Literary in Tibet Seminar Theme: Religion and the Literary in Tibet Seminar Year 5 of 5 Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Chair: Andrew Quintman
Panelists: Bryan J. Cuevas, Florida State University Holly Gayley, University of Colorado
Responding: Benjamin Bogin, Georgetown University Unregistered Participant José I. Cabezón, University of California, Santa Barbara Jacob Dalton, University of California, Berkeley Brandon Dotson, Ludwig Maximilians Universität München Unregistered Participant David Germano, University of Virginia Jonathan Gold, Princeton University Janet Gyatso, Harvard University Roger Jackson, Carleton College Sarah Jacoby, Northwestern University Nancy Lin, Vanderbilt University Jann Ronis, University of California, Berkeley Antonio Terrone, Northwestern University Unregistered Participant Nicole Willock, University of Denver Carl Yamamoto, Towson University
Business Meeting: Kurtis Schaeffer
A22-338 Tantric Studies Group Theme: Out For Blood: Sacrifice, Tantra, and Normative Hinduism Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Xenia Zeiler, University of Helsinki Eradicated with Blood: Text and Context of Animal Sacrifice in Tantric and Tantra-Influenced Destructive Rituals
Joel Bordeaux, Colgate University Blood in the Mainstream: Kali Puja and Tantric Orthodoxy in Early Modern Bengal
Sravana Borkataky-Varma, Rice University Red: An Ethnographic Study of Cross-Pollination of Vedic and Tantric in Shakta Assam
Ehud Halperin, Tel Aviv University Between Flowers and Dead Buffaloes: Negotiating Tantric and Brahmanic Values in Contemporary Kullu Valley of the West Himalaya
A22-322 Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Group Theme: The Violence of Non-Violence Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
John Soboslai, University of California, Santa Barbara Violently Peaceful: Tibetan Self-Immolation and the Problem of the Non/Violence Binary
A22-314 Women and Religion Section Theme: Women, Embodiment, and Authority Across Religious Traditions Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Ashlee Andrews, Indiana University Cooking the Home: Food, Bodies, and Authority in Bengali Hindu Women's Domestic Gastronomic Rituals
A23-139 Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group Theme: Monk, King, Tantrika: Negotiating Power in Tibet Brandon Dotson, Ludwig Maximilians Universität München, Presiding Sunday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Adam Krug, University of California, Santa Barbara Pakpa Lama’s Advice to Prince Jibik Temür: Buddhist Ethics in the "Heyday of Poisons"
Jacob Dalton, University of California, Berkeley Power and Compassion: Negotiating Buddhist Kingship in Tenth-Century Tibet
Jann Ronis, University of California, Berkeley Jikmé Lingpa’s Epistles to the Dharma King and Queen of Dergé: Skillful Means and Classicism
José I. Cabezón, University of California, Santa Barbara Mipam's Vision of the Just Buddhist Ruler in His Treatise on Political Ethics
Daniel Hirshberg, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München "When I Was King…": Memories of Sovereignty in the Construction of Enlightened Identity
Business Meeting: Sarah Jacoby, Northwestern University Andrew Quintman, Yale University
A23-227 Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group Theme: Tibetan Letters, Buddhist Lives: Epistolary Approaches to the Study of Tibetan Buddhism Benjamin Bogin, Georgetown University, Presiding Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Christina Robinson, University of Virginia Toward a Tibetan Buddhist Epistolary Standard: Letters and Buddhist Institutions
Dominique Townsend, Columbia University Mastering the Art of Correspondence: Letters and Buddhist High Culture
Holly Gayley, University of Colorado Buddhist Love Letters: An Exploration of Epistolary Intimacy and Tibetan Literary Style
Responding: Roger Jackson, Carleton College
A23-264 Hinduism Group Theme: Making a Hindu Saint: The Politics of Shaping Legacies Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Christian Lee Novetzke, University of Washington Vernacularizing Jnaneshwar
Patton Burchett, New York University Remembering a Rasik: Politics and Authority in the Memory of the Bhakti
Dean Accardi, University of Texas Making a Saint Hindu: Lal Ded, Orientalism, and Kashmir’s Religious Past
Archana Venkatesan, University of California, Davis The Other Trinity: Music, Saintliness, and the Saurashtras of Madurai
Jonathan Loar, Emory University From “Neither/Nor” to “Both/And”: Reconfiguring the Legacy of Shirdi Sai Baba in Hagiography
A23-257 Buddhism Section Theme: Traitors to the Buddha?: Issues in Translating Buddhist Texts Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Panelists: Brian Ruppert, University of Illinois Sarah Harding, Naropa University Richard D. McBride, Brigham Young University, Hawaii Ryan Overbey, University of California, Berkeley
A23-308 Buddhism Section Theme: Buddhism and Capitalism: Religious Economies in Modernizing Asia Andrew Quintman, Yale University, Presiding Sunday - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Panelists: James Mark Shields, Bucknell University Rethinking "Buddhist Economics": Foundations for a Post-Socialist Critique of Capitalism
Alexandra Kaloyanides, Yale University Buddhist Buildings and Christian Classrooms: Land-Ownership Disputes over Religious Schools in Nineteenth-Century Burma
Matthew King, University of Toronto Buddhist Formations during Asia’s First Socialist Revolution in Mongolia
A23-401 Receptions/Breakfasts Theme: AAR Awards Ceremony and Reception Jack Fitzmier, American Academy of Religion, Presiding Sunday - 7:30 PM-9:00 PM
2014 Book Awards for Excellence in the Study of Religion Analytical-Descriptive Anya Bernstein. Religious Bodies Politic: Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism. University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Textual Studies Andrew Quintman. The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa. Columbia University Press, 2013.
A24-211 Buddhism Section Theme: Buddhist Femininities: Demystifying the Essential Feminine Monday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Michelle J. Sorensen, Columbia University Feminine Identities in Buddhist Chöd
A24-237 Yogācāra Studies Group Theme: Panel Discussion of the Saṃdhinirmocana-sūtra, Chapters Seven, Eight, and Nine Monday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Panelists: Robert M. Gimello, University of Notre Dame William S. Waldron, Middlebury College Chen-Kuo Lin, National Chengchi University Jay Garfield, Yale-NUS College A. Charles Muller, University of Tokyo
Responding: Dan Lusthaus, Harvard University
A24-338 Tantric Studies Group and Yogācāra Studies Group Theme: Tracing Threads of Tantric Inter(dis-)connectivity: An Analysis of the Exegetical Links between the Yogācāra and Pratyabhijñā Lineages Monday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Dan Lusthaus, Harvard University Yogācāra Plus a Playful God Equals Kashmir Śaivism
Douglas S. Duckworth, Temple University Yogācāra as a Bridge to Philosophical Tantra
Unregistered Participant Truth and Dialogue: Reconfiguring the Philosophical Exchange between Trika and Yogācāra Systems
Unregistered Participant The World within Consciousness – Once More on the Relationship between Buddhist and Śaiva Philosophical Idealisms
David P. Lawrence, University of North Dakota Time, Moments and Momentariness in Yogācāra, Bhartṛhari, and Nondual Kashmir Śaivism
A24-304 Buddhism Section and Religion and Sexuality Group Theme: Buddhism and Sexuality Monday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Vesna Wallace, University of California, Santa Barbara The Making of Monastic Sexual Morality in Mongolia’s Pastoral Culture
Sarah Jacoby, Northwestern University A Dry Treatise on Passion? Reconsidering Ju Mipam’s Contribution to Kāmaśāstra Literature in Tibet
A24-324 International Development and Religion Group Theme: Faith-Based Organizations, Development, and Climate Change in the Global South Monday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Dekila Chungyalpa, World Wildlife Fund, Washington, D.C. Why the Environmental Movement Needs Religion
Brian K. Pennington, Elon University Climate Change, Natural Disaster, and Anti-theodicy in the Indian Himalayas
A25-103 Animals and Religion Group and Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group Theme: Animals in Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Tuesday - 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Brandon Dotson, Ludwig Maximilians Universität München The “Beloved Pair”: Horse and Man in Early Tibetan Funerals
Geoff Barstow, Otterbein University Vegetarianism and Monasticism in the Late Tibetan Renaissance
Eric D. Mortensen, Guilford College The Very Boundaries of What It Means To Be “Human”: Monsters, the Folkloric Notion of “Half-Human,” and Othering in the Landscapes of the Tibetan Imaginary
Responding: Ivette Vargas-O'Bryan, Austin College
A25-110 Buddhism Section Theme: Buddhism in and across Borders Tuesday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Xin Wen, Harvard University Locating and Dislocating the Sacred: A Khotanese Buddhist Site and its Afterlives in Nepal and China
Yasmin Cho, Duke University Blurring Boundaries between Names and Robes: Lay Female Renunciation Practices in Contemporary Tibetan Society
A25-109 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section Theme: Sensuous Wisdom: Artful Scholarship on Religious Art Tuesday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Miranda Shaw, University of Richmond Dancing Words: Writing about Tantric Buddhist Dance