AABS seminar series 1 (2018), Sydney

Australian Association of Buddhist Studies seminar series, Semester 1, 2018. Meditation, Mind, and Healing: From India to Tibet and Beyond. Lecture Theatre S325, John Woolley Building, University of Sydney.

1. Trauma and Time: Tibetan Medical Responses to Nepal’s 2015 Earthquakes
Sienna R. Craig
Dartmouth College, USA
Wednesday 7 March, 6:00-7:30pm

2. Meditation in Tibetan Buddhism: Mind, Mahāmudrā and the Rhetoric of Immediacy
Jim Rheingans
University of Sydney
Thursday 15 March, 6:00-7:30pm

3. Facts or Fakes? Reconsidering Śāntideva’s Names, Life, and Works
Akira Saito
International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies, Tokyo
Thursday 22 March, 6:00-7:30pm

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Bellezza, ‘Death and Beyond in Ancient Tibet’ (2013)

John Vincent Bellezza. Death and Beyond in Ancient Tibet: Archaic Concepts and Practices in a Thousand-Year-Old Illuminated Funerary Manuscript and Old Tibetan Funerary Documents of Gathang Bumpa and Dunhuang. Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse 454; Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens 77. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2013 [official]. 292 pp. ISBN 978-3-7001-7433-2.

John Bellezza in Kathmandu after walking from China, September 2007. (Photograph © I. S.)
John Bellezza in Kathmandu after walking from China, September 2007. (Photograph © I. S.)