IATS 2013 Programme Overview 20 July
Panel 2: Architecture and Conservation
Panel 4: Bhutanese Buddhism and its Culture
Panel 5: Changing Climate on the Tibetan Plateau
Panel 6: The History of Buddhism in Mongolia
Panel 8: Ethnography and Cartography as Modes of Representation in Tibet
Panel 10: New Research on the Gesar Epic in Tibet
Panel 12: Hermes in Tibet: Tantra’s Exegetical Imperative
Panel 13: Kingship and Religion in Tibet
Panel 14: Livelihoods on the Tibetan Plateau
Panel 16: Medicine and Astrology between Tibet, Mongolia and China, late 17th–early 20th centuries
Panel 17: Tantrist (sngags-pa) Communities and Their Relations with Monastic Institutions in Amdo
Panel 18: Mongolian Buddhist Art
Panel 19: Rules, Reform and Regulations: New Perspectives on Tibetan Social History
Panel 20: Nomads’ Religious Lives
Panel 22: Nyingma Studies – What’s in a Name
Panel 23: Old Tibetan Studies IV
Panel 25: Preservation and Development of Tibetan Medicine
Panel 26: Teaching and Learning Tibetan as a Second/Foreign Language in Higher Education
Panel 28: The New Urbanization in Mongolia and Tibet and its Impact on Family and Society
Panel 29: The Secular in Tibet and Mongolia
Panel 30: Territories, Communities and Exchanges in Kham
Panel 32: Tibetan and Mongolian Ritual Dance
Panel 33: Tibetan Information Technology—See Commemorative Session 2
Panel 34: Tibetan and Mongolian Buddhisms Transformed: Transnational Networks and Local Communities
Panel 35: Tibetan Developments in Buddhist Philosophy in the Early Centuries of the Later Diffusion
Panel 36W: Workshop: Tibetan Manuscript Studies
Panel 37: Tibetology in Rgyal Thang
Panel 38: Toward a History of Tibetan Mahamudra Traditions
Panel 39: When Different Worlds Meet: Transcultural Encounters in the Eastern Himalayas
Panel 40: Medical Traditions of Mongolia
Panel 41: Buddhist Astronomy and Astrology in Mongolia and Tibet
Panel 42: The Bodhicaryavatara: Mongolian and Tibetan Commentarial Traditions
Panel 43: Tibetan Textual Studies from the Mongolian Perspective: Terminology and Translation
Panel 44: The Transmission of Buddhist Epistemology to Tibet and Mongolia
Panel 45: Tibetan Literary Exchanges: Influences Between Genres and with Neighbouring Literatures
Commemorative Session 1: A Tribute to Andre Alexander
Commemorative Session 2: Among Digital Texts: Remembering Gene Smith
Commemorative Session 3: A Tribute to Luciano Petech
Session 4: Tibetan Buddhist Women
Session 5: Transnational Tibetan Identities
Session 6: Sacred and Secular Geographies
Session 7: Modern Tibetan Political History
Session 9: Languages, Linguistics and Education
Session 10: Performing Arts and Musical Traditions
Session 12: History of Tibetan Religious Practices
Session 13: Great Lives and Works
Session 14: Tibetan Art and Archaeology
Session 15: Buddhism, Science and Society