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THANK YOU FROM TAHSC We would not have been able to facilitate these events and contribute to the Wolfson community without funding from the College, for which we are extremely grateful. In particular we thank Louise Gordon and her team in the Events Office for their support. Photo: Sanjay Hona REPORTS 60 COLLEGE RECORD 2019
Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Centre, (TAHSC) by Lama Jabb As in previous years, the cluster continued to host a broad range of academic and cultural events to which all members of the College were invited. The cluster organised guest lectures on a diversity of topics ranging from Tibetan history and worship of mountain deities to the role of magic rituals in Tibetan Buddhism and rediscovered Tibetan treasure literature. The speakers came from the UK and from universities abroad including Vienna, Bochum, Berlin, Jena and Paris. In Michaelmas 2018 we held the fourth annual Aris Lecture, established in 2015 in memory of Michael and Anthony Aris and their contribution to Tibetan and Himalayan Studies. This year’s lecture was delivered by Dr Sam van Schaik from the British Library before a packed audience in the Auditorium. It focused on ‘Magic, Healing, and Ethics in Tibetan Buddhism’ and explored the role of books of spells in Tibetan Buddhism within the Buddhist ethical framework. Another annual highlight worthy of special mention was the ‘Losar’ party in early February. Once again we celebrated the Tibetan New Year with live Tibetan music, dancing and traditional food and drinks. This popular event was organised in previous years by our late colleague and former Wolfsonian Tsering Dhundup Gonkatsang (1951–2018), and this year it was celebrated in his honour. Once again it attracted members of Wolfson and the Unversity, together with Tibet enthusiasts, Tibetans and Mongolians from Oxford, London and elsewhere. These New Year parties have gathered momentum and are very popular with the Wolfson community, providing as they do a rare and jovial social space for students of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies and other Wolfsonians to interact with Tibetans and experience Tibetan culture. REPORTS In Hilary 2019 we were fortunate to entertain Yangten Rinpoche, the esteemed Tibetan Buddhist master, who came to Wolfson as a So-Wide visiting scholar. We organised a lecture by him on Tibetan monastic education at the Oriental Institute, where he also held a discussion on this topic with Dr Jonathan Samuel, the current Junior Research Fellow in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies at Wolfson. We also facilitated the translation of Rinpoche’s lecture, which was attended by cluster members and current Tibetan and Himalayan Studies students. Since Hilary 2019 cluster members Dr Robert Mayer and Anna Sehnalova have been running the Asian Treasure Traditions Seminar at Wolfson, consisting of several lectures given by a diversity of speakers from the UK and abroad. This ongoing seminar focuses on Tibetan and other treasure traditions within an interdisciplinary perspective, with the aim of coming to a better understanding of their possible origins. In June the cluster hosted Gesture, Body and Language in Tibet and the Himalayas, a workshop co-organised by our cluster member Dr Theresia Hofer and Professor Elisabeth Hsu. This is a cross-disciplinary exploration of the relationships between gesture and language, and the role of signifying embodied movements more broadly, in culturally Tibetan and related linguistic areas of the Himalayas. WOLFSON.OX.AC.UK 61
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