Symposium Program

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8:00am   Coffee/pastry

8:40am   Opening remarks

 

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8:45am – 10:15am

Panel 1: Nepal Maṇḍala – the setting

Chair: Yukio Lippit, Harvard

A Newar Offering in Buddhist History

Eric Huntington, Rice University

On Vajracarya crowns

John Guy, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Indra’s faces in Nepal. The Newarization of an Indian god

Gérard Toffin, CNRS, Paris

 

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10:15am — 10:45am   coffee/tea break

 

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10:45am - 12:15pm

Panel 2: Nepal Maṇḍala in the early modern era (the late Malla period)

Chair: Eugene Wang, Harvard University

Hanumān Worship under the Kings of the Late Malla Period in Nepal

Gudrun Bühnemann, The University of Wisconsin-Madison

The social world of the Malla period manuscripts and paubhas

Jinah Kim, Harvard University

Spectacle and Splendor: Newar Buddhist Celebrations in Art and Ritual Practice

Kerry Lucinda Brown, Savannah College of Art and Design

 

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12:15pm - 1:30pm   lunch

 

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1:30pm - 3:30pm

Panel 3: Nepal Maṇḍala in the intra- & trans-regional context

Chair: Janet Gyatso

Beyond the Nepal Mandala: The Wider World of a painted Devīmāhātmya manuscript

Louis Copplestone, Harvard University

Narratives of Place: Locating Nepāla Maṇḍala in the Folios of the Svasthānīvratakathā, 16th-20th Century

Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, Penn State University

Newar-Tibetan Relations since the Younghusband Invasion: Connections and Reconnections in Trade and Buddhist Relations

Todd Lewis, College of the Holy Cross

Emergence of an Art School: Juddha Kala Pathshala during late Rana period in Nepal

Dipti Sherchan, University of Illinois at Chicago

 

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3:30 - 4:00 coffee/tea break

 

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4:00pm - 5:30pm

Panel 4: Nepal Maṇḍala in global terms

Chair: Naresh Man Bajracharya, College of the Holy Cross

The Radiantly Beautiful Center of the World: Deity Possession and Holy Ground in Kathmandu

Ellen Coon, Independent Scholar

Naḥli Tisā, or, Where Is the Modern and the Global in Newar Jewellery?

Christoph Emmerich, University of Toronto

The Chariot Festival of Rāto Matsyendranāth/Buṃgadyaḥ of the Kathmandu Valley: Forty Years of Innovations and Transformations.

Bruce McCoy Owens, Wheaton College

 

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6:00pm   Symposium participant dinner

 

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