PANEL 6 – BUDDHISM AND BUSINESS: EXAMINING RELIGIOUS ECONOMIC PRACTICES FROM THE PAST TO THE PRESENT

WEDNESDAY (Auditorium R)

Conveners: Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg, Trine Brox

 9.00-9.15: Opening of panel.

9.15-9.45: Jane Caple: Making profits, making gifts: business, wealth and religious donation in northeast Tibet

9.45-10.15: Chaksham Tsering: Economic development: recent changes in Tibetan pre-death ritual (gson chos) in Gling rgya village, Reb gong, northeastern Tibet.

10.15-10.45: Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg: Buddhism a Unique Selling Point (USP): The branding and marketing of spiritual tourism in Ladakh.

10.45-11.15: Federica Venturi: An enquiry into beer production in Tibetan monasteries.

11.15-11.45: Tea and coffee break.

11.45-12.15: Anna Morcom: Tibetan Buddhist chanting: transformations from the 1990s.

12.15-12.45: Gabriel Lafitte: Charismatic Khenpos renouncing meat commodity chains: anti-modern fundamentalism, or Chinese capitalism read acutely?

12.45-13.15: Yasmin Cho: Overtly moral: Buddhist practices, business, and a good life among China’s new rich.