PANEL 29: THE SECULAR IN TIBET AND MONGOLIA
Conveners and discussants: Holly Gayley and Nicole Willock
Tuesday 23 JULY
| 2:00-2:20 | Issues for the Notion of the Secular in the Historiography of Tibet: The Case of Tibetan Medicine
Janet Gyatso |
| 2:20-2:40 | In Layman’s Terms: The Politics of Poetry at the Fifth Dalai Lama’s Court
Nancy Lin |
| 2:40-3:00pm | Empiricism, Valid Cognition, and the Problem of Knowing in Post-Qing Mongolian Buddhist Historiography
Matthew King |
| 3:00-3:20pm | The relationship between the 13th Dalai Lama and 8th Jetsun Damdampa
Tsering Shakya |
| 3:20-3:40 | Secularism and Publishing through the lens of the Tibet Mirror Press
Nicole Willock |
| 3:40-4:00 | Tea and Coffee |
| 4:00–4:20 | Constructing Tibetan Secularism in Exile
Emmi Okada |
| 4:20-4:40 | Constructing the Secular in Buddhist Advice to the Laity in Contemporary Tibet
Holly Gayley |
| 4:40-5:30 | Roundtable Discussion on all papers vis-à-vis the category of the “secular” in Tibet and Mongolia |