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2003 Atlanta

Session I (A71): Lineage Construction in Tibet

• Jacob Dalton, School of Oriental and African Studies. "Strategies of Lineage Construction in the Sutra Empowerment Tradition."
• Ronald M. Davidson, Fairfield University. "The Construction of Esoteric Indian Buddhist Lineages: The Case of the gSar-ma Translators."
• Frances M. Garrett, University of Toronto. "The Role of Illness in Tibetan Historiography."
• David Germano, University of Virginia. "The Construction of Lineages and Cosmological Narratives in Early Medieval Tibet: The rNying ma Creation of a Buddhist Vehicle Termed rDzogs Chen."
• T. Griffith Foulk, Sarah Lawrence College. Respondent.

Session II (A161): Women in Tibetan Religious Life: Histories and Contemporary Communities

• Bryan Cuevas, Florida State University. "Tibetan Female Revenants."
• Robert Trent Pomplun, Loyola College. "Hell Hath No Fury: The Lady Tshe-ring Bkra-shis and the Death of Sde-srid Sangs-rgyas Rgya-mtsho."
• Alyson Prude, University of California Santa Barbara. "A Comparative Look at Himalayan Nunneries."
• Kurtis R. Schaeffer, University of Alabama. "A Royal Nun in Fifteenth-Century Tibet."
• Karma Lekshe Tsomo, University of San Diego. "Buddhism Women and Social Change in the Spiti Valley."

2002 Toronto

Session I (A37): Religious Life in the Time of the Fifth Dalai Lama

• Kurtis R. Schaeffer, University of Alabama. "Controlling Time and Space in Lhasa: The New Year and City Pilgrimage Routes under the Fifth Dalai Lama."
• Bryan Cuevas, Florida State University. "Religious Life in a Seventeenth-Century Tibetan Monastery."
• Jacob Dalton, University of Michigan. "Rnying-ma Politics in the Seventeenth Century."
• Trent Pomplun, Loyola College. "Tibetan Prophetic Literature in the Notizie Istoriche of Ippolito Desideri, S. J."
• Matthew Kapstein, University of Chicago. Respondent.

Session II (A128): The Tibetan Buddhist Encounter with Modernity

• Gray Tuttle, Harvard University. "Dharma Centers and Peace Rituals in Republican China (1914-1934): Tibetan Lamas Teach the First Wave of Chinese Laity."
• Yinong Zhang, Cornell University. "Renewing Religious Practice in a Tibetan Village of Post-Reformed China."
• Sharon J. Hepburn, Trent University. "Cultural Continuity and Change among Tamang Thangka Painters in the Kathmandu Valley."
• Abraham Zablocki, Cornell University. "Reformers vs. Traditionalists in Transnational Tibetan Buddhism."
• Georges Dreyfus, Williams College. Respondent.

2001 Denver

Session I (A130): Medicine and Buddhism in Indo-Tibetan Tradition

• Stephen Jenkins, Humboldt State University. "Continuity and Contrast in Indian Buddhist Medical Metaphor and Practice."
• Frances M. Garrett, University of Virginia. "Becoming Human in Early Tibetan Scholasticism: Tibetan Embryology and the Intertwining of Medical and Religious Rhetoric."
• Janet Gyatso, Harvard University. "Ideology versus Empiricism in the Service of Gender Distinction: A Debate in Tibetan Medicine."
• Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Harvard University. "Textual Scholarship and Medical Learning in Tibet."
• Suzanne Mrozick, Western Michigan University. Respondent.

Session II (A223): Pilgrims and Pixels: Tibetan Buddhism in Traditional and Contemporary Academic Practice

• Alexander C. McKay, University of London. "Will the Real Kailas Please Stand Up!: Towards a Theory of Himalayan Pilgrimage."
• Ivette Vargas-O'Bryan, Harvard University. "The Life and Fasting Ritual of dGe slong ma dPal mo: The Experiences of a Leper, Founder of Smyung Gnas, and Transmitter of Buddhist Teachings on Suffering and Renunciation in Tibetan Religious History."
• David Germano, University of Virginia. "Digital Library and the Study of Tibetan Buddhism."
• Alejandro Chaoul, Rice University. "The Magical Wheel: Mind-Body Relationship in the Bon Tradition and Its Applications in Today's World."
• Eve. L. Mullen, Universitat Hamburg. "The Dalai Lama and Rangzen: Changing Symbols."

2000 Nashville

Session I (A104): Buddhism between Tibet and Pre-Republican China

• Matthew Kapstein, University of Chicago. "Mulian in the Land of Snows: Chinese Traditions of the Arhat Maudgalyayana and Their Legacy in Tibet."
• Rob Linrothe, Skidmore College. "The Commissioner's Commissions: Late Thirteenth-Century Tibetan and Chinese Buddhist Art in Hangzhou under the Mongols."
• Karl Debreczeny, University of Chicago. "Sino-Tibetan Wallpainting at Daobaojigong."
• Paul Nietupski, John Carroll University. "rGya nag pa tshang ta Labrang Monastery."

Session II (A181): Buddhism between Tibet and Republican China

• Gray Tuttle, Harvard University. "Chinese Support for Modern Education in the Borderlands of Tibet: Shes rab rgya mtsho's School in Rdo sbis, Qinghai."
• Zhihua Yao, Boston University. "Tibetan Learning in the Contemporary Chinese Yogacara School.
• Robert Gimello, Harvard University. Respondent.

1999 Boston

Session I: Review of Donald S. Lopez, Jr.'s Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West.

• David Germano, University of Virginia. "Encountering Tibet: The Ethics, Soteriology, and Creativity of Cross-Cultural Interpretation."
• Tsering Shakya. "Who Are the Prisoners?"
• Robert A. F. Thurman, Columbia University. "Critical Reflections on Donald S. Lopez Jr.'s Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West."
• Donald S. Lopez, Jr., University of Virginia. Response.

Session II (A180): Tibetan Buddhism on the Borderlands

• Bryan J. Cuevas, University of Virginia. "Notes for a History of the 'Tibetan Book of the Dead': Textual Transmission and Printing from Tibet to Bhutan."
• Gregory A. Hillis, University of Virginia. "In Exile from the Land of the Snows: kLong chen pa's Sojourn in Bhutan and its Literary Impact."
• Paul Nietupski, John Carroll University. "Lamas and Literature in 20th Century Labrang."
• Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Harvard University. "Patronage, Printing, and Tibetan Buddhist Literary Culture in Dolpo: The Life and Writings of Bstan 'dzin ras pa, Founder of Shel Monastery."
• Gray Tuttle, Harvard University. "What Chinese Buddhists Wanted (and What they Got) From Tibetan Buddhism."

1997 San Francisco

Session I: The Controversy over the Deity Dorje Shugden

• Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
• Georges Dreyfus
• ?

Session II: Non-Buddhist Traditions in Tibet

• Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Harvard University.
• Micheal Walter, Indiana University
• ?

1996 New Orleans

Session I: Tibetan Monastic Education

• Elizabeth Napper, University of Hawaii. "Traditional Buddhist Education in Tibetan Nunneries."
• Georges Dreyfus, Williams College. "Debate and Commentary in Tibetan Monastic Education."
• Jules B. Levinson, Hamline University. "Monastic Education at Ngagyur Nyingma Institute."
• David Germano, University of Virginia. "Monastic Renewal in Eastern Tibet

Session II: Individual presentations by young researchers

1995 Philadelphia

Session I: Review of Geoffrey Samuel's Civilized Shamans

• Donald S. Lopez, Jr., University of Michigan
• Richard Kohn, University of California, Berkeley
• Roger Jackson, Carleton College
• Per Kvaerne, Oslo University

Session II: Vision and Revelation in Early Tibetan Buddhism

1994 Chicago

Session I: History of Tibetan and Himalayan Religious Studies

Session II: Methodological issues in Studying Tibetan and Himalayan Religions

1993 Washington, D.C.

Session (A103): Tibetan Cultural Identities

• David Germano, University of Virginia. "Nomadic Religiosity and the Myth of Legality: Early Tantric Thought, Narratives of the Past and Cultural Identity in Tibet."
• Ronald M. Davidson, Fairfield University. "The Synthesis of Lam-'bras and Virupa's Hagiography."
• Anne C. Klein, Rice University. "Stopping Hail: Religious and Social Dimensions of a Tibetan Ritual."
• Georges Dreyfus, Williams College. "Historiography in Tibet: A Rhetoric of Identity"

If you have any additional information about the THRG meeting history, please email it to Kurtis Schaeffer