PANEL 4 – ANIMALS IN THE RELIGION AND CULTURE OF THE TIBETAN PLATEAU

WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE (Room 304A)

Convener: Geoffrey Barstow

 

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9.00-9.15: Opening of panel.

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9.15-9.45: Valentina Punzi: Barley-and-butter goats for the mountain gods: rejection and adaptation of red offerings in Eastern Amdo.

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9.45-10.15: Catherine Hardie: Life liberation, animal ethics, and moral theatre in the Larung Chinese–Tibetan religious encounter.

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10.15-10.45: Catherine Schuetze: Tibetan traditional veterinary medicine: animal healing practices in texts and society.

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10.45-11.15: Katia Buffetrille: «Beasts, Men and Gods»: A Dmar bsang ritual in Khri ka (Amdo).

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11.15-1145: Tea and coffee break.

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11.45-12.15: Geoffrey Barstow: Meat eating and masculinity.

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12.15-12.45: Nyangshem Gyal: Sectarian and political limits to the spread of vegetarianism in Tibet.

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12.45-13.45: LUNCH

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13.45-14.15: Nadine Plachta: Wildlife conservation in the Himalayan borderlands: an investigation of the Shagya Agreement.

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14.15-14.45: Discussion.

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