PANEL 53 – BETWEEN EMPIRE AND THE STATE: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HISTORIES OF THE 11TH TO 17TH CENTURIES
WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE (Auditorium E)
Conveners: Fernanda Pirie and Charles Manson
9.00-9.15: Opening of panel.
9.15-9.45: Charles Manson: A text on Tibetan law containing a ‘Turquoise Dragon Proclamation’.
9.45: Ruth Gamble: Wearing the Black Hat: the Third Karmapa’s reinvention of reincarnation.
10.15-10.45: Roger Greatrex: ‘Mapping’ an unstable border at the beginning of the 17th century – Songpan and Zhangla.
10.45-11.15: Volker Caumanns: “Rekindling the (Institutional) Flame”: sNgags ’chang Kun dga’ rin chen’s restoration of Sa skya in the 16th century.
11.15-11.45: Tea and coffee break.
11.45-12.15: Fernanda Pirie: Legal ideology in medieval Tibet.
12.15-12.45: Saya Hamanaka: The Sakya school’s descriptions of and their relationship with Mi nyag (Xi-xia).
12.45-13.15: Thubten Kunga Chashab: A brief autobiography of the Rin spungs ruler Ngag dbang ’jig rten dbang phyug grags pa. Extract from Chos kyi rgyal po ngag dbang rnam par rgyal ba la zhu ’phrin du bya ba rig pa ’dzin pa’i pho nya zhes pa shambha la’i lam gyi yi ge dang bcas pa.