Opening of conference and plenary session, Sunday 19. June 3 pm
List of panels and sessions:
Panel 3: Padmasambhava studies
Panel 4: Animals in the religion and culture of the Tibetan Plateau
Panel 5: Architecture and conservation in the Himalayas
Panel 6: Buddhism and business: examining religious economic practices from the past to the present
Panel 7: Buddhism, culture, and society in Bhutan
Panel 8: Climate and the environment in Tibet and the Himalayas—an interdisciplinary perspective
Panel 9: Decline and local innovation in the pastoral society of Amdo Tibet
Panel 10: Descriptive linguistics of the Tibetospheric languages
Panel 11: Development as urbanization in Tibet and the Himalayas
Panel 13: Gender meditations: untold histories of women in the making of modern Tibet
Panel 14: Hermeneutical tantric traditions
Panel 15: Knowledge and context in the history of Tibetan medicine
Panel 16: Linguistic diversity and endangerment in Tibet
Panel 17: New directions in Amdo studies
Panel 18: Oaths, vows and promises: words and deeds that bind
Panel 19: Old Tibetan studies V
Panel 21: Rethinking oral history in modern Tibet
Panel 22: rNying-ma tantric studies
Panel 24: Sacred landscapes in Tibet and the Himalayas
Panel 25: Sowa rigpa (Tibetan medicine): contemporary and anthropological studies
Panel 27: Teaching and learning Tibetan as a second/foreign language in higher education
Panel 30: The historiographical role of collected works (gsung ’bum) in Tibetan Buddhism
Panel 32: The Qing Empire revisited: a research colloquium
Panel 35: The state as empty vessel—continuing discussions of a Tibet without Tibet
Panel 38: Tibetan information technology, library resources, and digital humanities
Panel 40: Linguistics and philology
Panel 41: Tibetan Mahāmudrā traditions
Panel 42: Religion and the senses
Panel 44: Tibetology in Sharkhog: history, society and religion on the eastern edge of Tibet
Panel 45: Tools and resources for early childhood education: reports from the Tibetan plateau
Panel 46: Towards a study of the visual culture of Tibet and the Himalayas
Panel 47: Trans-Himalayan corridors
Roundtable 50: Towards a manual of Tibetan manuscript studies
Roundtable 51: Understanding the deep Tibetan past: what every Tibetologist should know
Panel 52: Reflections on the encounter between academia and the Tibetan scholarly tradition
Panel 53: Between empire and state: social and political history of the 11th to 17th centuries
Session 1: Tibetan linguistics 1
Session 2: History of research
Session 3: Contemporary nomad studies
Session 4: Tibetan literature 1
Session 6: Religion in Tibet 1
Session 7: Traditional culture in Tibet and the Himalayas
Session 8: Religion in Tibet 2
Session 10: Tibetan literature 2
Session 11: Religion in Tibet 3
Session 13: History of local groups in Amdo
Session 14: Buddhist philosophy 1
Session 16: Contemporary issues
Session 17: Religion in Tibet 4
Session 18: Tibetan linguistics 2
Session 19: Tibetan history (Qing dynasty)
Session 21: Religion in Tibet 5
Session 22: Modern Tibetan history and society
Session 25: Tibetan literature 3
Session 26: Religion in Tibet 6