Fw: H-ASIA: Bon, Shangshung, and Early Tibet Conference, SOAS, 9-10 September 2011

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September 2011

> H-ASIA
> April 7, 2011
>
> Bon, Shangshung, and Early Tibet Conference, SOAS, 9-10 September 2011
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> From: "Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim" <Ronit.Tlalim@sas.ac.uk>
>
> On behalf of the organisers:
>
> Bon, Shangshung, and Early Tibet Conference
>
> http://www.soas.ac.uk/chinesestudies/events/bon-shangshung-and-early-tibet/
> 9-10 September 2011
> School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Russell
> Square, London WC1H 0XG, UK.
>
> An international conference celebrating 60 years of Tibetan Studies at
> SOAS, 50 years of Bonpo studies in the West, and the founding of the
> London Shangshung Institute for Tibetan Studies
>
> The Bon religion of Tibet sees itself as the region's pre-Buddhist
> religion, originating from the kingdom of Shangshung in what is now
> western Tibet. The earliest Tibetan documents preserved at Dunhuang
> mention both Bon and Shangshung, but these documents can be difficult to
> date and even harder to interpret. The methodologies of archaeology,
> genetics, and historical linguistics have the potential to shed light on
> Tibet's prehistory, but they have so far been little employed.
>
> In 1950 the School of Oriental and African Studies became the first
> institution of higher education in the United Kingdom to host a permanent
> academic position in Tibetan studies. In 1960, when Bonpo monks came to
> SOAS under the auspices of a Rockefeller grant, SOAS became the first
> institution of higher education in the West to prominently engage in
> research on the Bon religion. Bringing together 25 of the world's most
> prominent researchers of the Bon religion and early Tibet, this conference
> will honour the tradition of Tibetan and Bon studies at SOAS, and
> celebrate the founding in 2009 of the London Shangshung Institute for
> Tibetan Studies.
>
> Programme
> To view the list of speakers and topics click here
> <http://www.soas.ac.uk/chinesestudies/events/bon-shangshung-and-early-tibet/file66989.pdf>.
> Changes may be made to the programme between now and September.
> Key Note Speakers include:
> - Namkahi Norbu, title tbc
> - Samten Karmay, Queen of the World and her twenty-seven daughters
> - Tenzin Namdak, title tbc
>
> --
> Dr Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
> Department of History
> Goldsmiths, University of London
> New Cross, London SE14 6NW
> www.gold.ac.uk/history/staff/yoeli-tlalimdrronit
>
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