Panel 13 – GENDER MEDITATIONS: UNTOLD HISTORIES OF WOMEN IN THE MAKING OF MODERN TIBET
Thursday 23 June (Auditorium B)
Conveners: Lara Maconi, Yudru Tsomu
9.00- 9.15 Opening of panel.
9.15-9.45: Lara Maconi: Not only the “daughter of” and the “wife of”: the personal journey and the cultural-cum-political activities of Blo gros chos mtsho (1910?–1949), a woman at the crossroads of epochs and cultures.
9.45-10.15: Sienna Craig: Mothers and Medicine Buddhas: young women amchi from Northern Nepal.
10.15-10.45: Maria Turek: “First they take it away, then they offer it back”: a Khampa clan history through a woman’s eyes.
10.45-11.15: Yudru Tsomu: Wicked witches or benevolent Taras: a study of women leadership in Khams history.
11.15-11.45: Tea and coffee break.
11.45-12.15: Sara Conrad: Contextualizing the milieu of the Sa skya ’bag mo in 17th–20th century Tibet.
12.15-12.45: Giacomella Orofino: Rje btsun ma Rdo rje Dpal sgron, A yu mkha’ ’gro (1839-1953). A Tibetan yoginī in the age of the ris med movement.
12.45-13.15: Tseyang Changngopa: ཉེ་རབས་བོད་ཀྱི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཐོག་རྒྱ་གར་དུ་སློབ་སྦྱོང་བྱེད་པར་བསྐྱོད་མཁན་བུད་མེད་སྐོར་ཞིབ་འཇུག
13.15-13.45: Discussant: Janet Gyatso