Proceedings
We are delighted to announce that the proceedings of the first ISYT conference will be published by Serindia Publications. Serindia is dedicated to high quality production, and is a leading publisher in the field of Tibetan studies.
Formatting conventions have been circulated by the editors. All submissions are subject to internal and blind external review.
Here is a sampling of papers presented at the conference, many of which will appear in the proceedings:
—Diana Altner, Humboldt University, Berlin; “Tibetan Fishermen: Business in Confrontation with Religion”.
—Vibha Arora, the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi; “Picturing Shangri-la Sikkim, India”.
—Elijah Ary, Paris; “Elevating Tsong kha pa’s Chief Disciples, Mkhas grub rje and rje yab sras gsum”.
—Anne-Sophie Bentz, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva; “Tibetan Refugees in India, or How Diaspora Politics Can Be Influenced by an Omnipresent Host Country”.
—Beri Geshe Jigmay Wangyal, Norbulingka Institute, Dharamsala; “Bod mnga` mdzad bcu`i dus rabs ngo sprod rags bsdus”.
—Natalia Bloch, Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan, Poland; “Young Tibetan Exile today: vegetarian, environmentalist, democrat? Globalization and negotiating identity in the situation of displacement”.
—Marc-Henri Deroche, EPHE, Paris; “Researches on some sources of the Ris med movement: the works of Gter ston Shes rab ’od zer (1518-1584)”.
—Brandon Dotson, SOAS; “The ‘Uncle-Nephew’ (zhang-dbon) Relationship as a Precursor to the ‘Patron-Priest’ (yon-mchod) Relationship”.
—Dukar Bum, Radio Free Asia; “An Investigation of ‘China’s Tibetology’”.
—George Fitzherbert, Oxford University; “Gesar as Oral Literature: Memorisation and Innovation in Narrations of the Gesar epic”.
—Anandamayee Ghosh, Visva Bharati University; “Bhasajyaguruvastu: a Root of Tibetan Health Curative Management”.
—Kalsang N. Gurung, CNWS, University of Leiden; “The Role of Confucius in Bon Sources”.
— Kalsang Yeshe, Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften, Bonn, Germany; “A Brief Discussion on Education in Tibet”.
—Lobsang Sherab, Amye Machen Institute, Dharamsala; “On the Tibetan Concepts Rigs and rus”.
—Saul Mullard, Wolfson College; “The Importance of ‘History’ in Modern Sikkim: Nationalism, Identity and the Invention of Tradition”.
—Tim Myatt, Oxford University; “Mission or Murder? A New Look at the Younghusband Mission of 1904”.
—Michelle Olsgard, University of California at Santa Cruz; “‘Winter Worm Summer Grass’: Assessing the Sustainability of Tibetan Yartsa gunbu Harvests in Yunnan, China”.
—Sveva Pettorino, Maurizio Piazza and Carmela Simioli,Università degli studi di Napoli “l’Orientale”; “Voices from Tibet: Tibetan Contemporary Society through Music”.
—Rase Khonchok Gyatso, Lhasa; “Chos ‘byung rin po che’i gter mdzod bstan pa’i gsal ba’i nyi ‘od kyi mdzad pa po su yin nam”.
—Kadri Raudsepp, University of Talinn, Estonia; “Dating and Authorship Problems of Sngags log sun ‘byin Attributed to Chag lo tsa ba chos rje dpal”.
—Joona Repo, SOAS, London; “Buddhist Principles in Tibetan Refugee Architecture”.
—Mary Rodeghier, Sorbonne; “Thieves’ Island and Urban Development in the TAR”.
—Samten Gyatso, Norbulingka Institute; “Analysis of the History of Riddles: lde`u, khed and gab-tshig”.
—Mari Savolainen, University of Helsinki; “Music-related Concepts and Values in the Thinking of Dunglen Musicians from Amdo”.
—Shawo Khacham, Tibet University; “Analysis of the Origin of the Tibetan Ritual Practice of bSang”.
—Nagarajao Subramanya, Mysore, India; “Development Dynamics – Changing Socio-Economic Aspects of Tibetans in India”.
—Emilia Sulek, Humboldt University, Berlin; “In the Land of Checkpoints. Yartsa Gunbu Business in Golok 2007, a Preliminary Report from the Field”.
—Alice Travers, INALCO, Paris; “Risk and social mobility among the aristocracy: a study of the demotion and dismissal cases in the careers of the Ganden Photrang officials at the beginning of the 20th century”.
—Tsering Choekyi, Chinese Chengchi University, Taiwan; “Tibetans in Taiwan, 1949–2006”.
—Tsering Dawa, Research Institute of Tibetology, Central Nationalities University, Beijing, “An Analysis of the Origin of Polo through the Ancient Relationship Between Tibet and Persia”.
—Chris Vasantkumar, Hamilton College, New York; “Tibet Incidental to Tibetan Studies? Views from the Margins”.
—Wangchuk Drolma, Southwest Nationalities University, “Tourism and Sociocultural Change in Rural T.A.R. of China: a Study of the Sangmu – Seranma Tibetan Village”.