About this Event
Conversation@PAM: A 19th Century Buddhist Renaissance in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands
Rimé (Tib. ris med) was a 19th century Buddhist movement that developed in Kham at the Sino-Tibetan frontier. Later memorialized by scholars and exiled Buddhist leaders as "non-sectarian," Rimé is better understood as a radical commitment to "universalism" in image and print. Its luminaries produced vast encyclopedic accounts of Buddhist knowledge and created new forms of visual and literary expression that drew daringly not only upon Tibetan, but also Chinese, Nepali, and Mongolian traditions. This presentation surveys these new relations to image and text in a wide frame, beginning with pioneering masters and ending with a provincial hermit facing the political disarray of the early 20th century.
More about Matt King:
Matthew King is Professor of Buddhist Studies and chair of the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of California, Riverside. His research examines the social history of knowledge in Buddhist scholastic networks extending across the Tibeto-Mongolian frontiers of the late Qing empire and its revolutionary ruins. Much of his published work has focused on encounters between Buddhist scholasticism, science, humanism, and state socialism in the 19th and early 20th centuries. His work is also broadly engaged with methodological revision in the study of religion and Buddhist studies, and in revisionist theoretical projects associated with the critical Asian humanities.
This program is presented in conjunction with two current exhibitions: Gateway to Himalayan Art, a traveling exhibition organized and provided by the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, and We Are Connected: Highlights from the USC Pacific Asia Museum’s Himalayan Collection.
USC staff and students attend free. USC PAM Members receive a 15% discount. Please email [email protected] for the discount code or more information.
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USC Pacific Asia Museum, 46 N Los Robles Ave, Pasadena, United States
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