日期

課程內容與指定閱讀

教學活動與課前、課後作業

學生學習投入時間

Week 1   

Tibetological Anthropology：Tibet as a Methodology

Tibetan-Himalayan civilization

Course Description: the whole course design and time arrangement.

The knowledge production of the Social Sciences, and the future research plan.

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Week 2 

  228 Peace Memorial Day

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Week 3  

Overview of International Tibetan Studies

Required Readings:

Aziz, Barbara Nirmri 1978 Tibetan Frontier Families: Reflections of Three Generations from D'ing-ri. Durham: Carolina Academic Press.

Ortner, Sherry B. 1989  High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism. Princton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.Paul, Ellen Frankel, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul, eds.

Supplementary readings:

Makley, Charlene. 2018. The Battle for Fortune: State-led Development, Personhood and Power among Tibetans in China : Cornell University Press

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Week 4 

A Survey of Tibetan Studies in Taiwan

Required Readings:

Fabienne Jagou,2021,Gongga Laoren (1903-1997) : Her Role in the Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in Taiwan.

4

Week 5 

Visit 1: Mongolian and Tibetan Cultural Center

 Required Readings:

Goldstein, Melvyn C. The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet, and the

Dalai Lama. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 1997.

Goldstein, Melvyn C. & Matthew T. Kapstein ,eds.1998 Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet :Religious Revival and Cultural Identity. Berkeley, California : University of California Press.

Tsering Shakya, 1999, The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet.New York : Columbia University Press.

Supplementary readings:

McGranahan, Carole. 2003. ‘Empire and the Status of Tibet: British, Chinese, and Tibetan Negotiations, 1913-1934’. In The History of Tibet, Volume 3: The Tibetan Encounter with Modernity, edited by Alex McKay, 267-295.

Goldstein, Melvyn C., Dawei Sherap, and William R. Siebenschuh ,2004， A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press

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Week 6    

From "cold society" to "hot society":Modern and Contemporary Process in Tibet

 Required Readings:

Goldstein, Melvyn C. The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet, and the

Dalai Lama. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 1997.

Goldstein, Melvyn C. & Matthew T. Kapstein ,eds.1998 Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet :Religious Revival and Cultural Identity. Berkeley, California : University of California Press.

Tsering Shakya, 1999, The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet.New York : Columbia University Press.

Supplementary readings:

McGranahan, Carole. 2003. ‘Empire and the Status of Tibet: British, Chinese, and Tibetan Negotiations, 1913-1934’. In The History of Tibet, Volume 3: The Tibetan Encounter with Modernity, edited by Alex McKay, 267-295.

Goldstein, Melvyn C., Dawei Sherap, and William R. Siebenschuh ,2004， A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press

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Week 7   

 Tomb-sweeping Day

Week 8   

The Guru as a Cultural Category

Required Readings:Lopez, Jr., Donald S. Prisoners of Shangri-La, Tibetan Buddhism and the West. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.Schwieger, Peter. 2015. The Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China: A Political History of the Tibetan Institution of Reincarnation. New York: Columbia University Press. Supplementary readings:Goldstein, Melvyn C. & Matthew T. Kapstein ,eds.1998 Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet :Religious Revival and Cultural Identity. Berkeley, California : University of California Press.Tuttle, Gray 2005. Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China, Columbia UniversityLuciano Petech, 2008, "the nobility and government of Tibet", translated by Shen Weirong and Song Liming, published by Deng Ruiling school and the center of Tibetan studies. 

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Week 9   

Tibetan Buddhist Politics Lecture

Tibetan Buddhism under Political Transformations

4

Week10  

Buddhist Material Culture and Museology in Tibet

Required Readings:

David Jackson, 2001, History of Tibet painting, Lhasa: Tibet people's publishing house.

Harris, Clare. 1999. In the Image of Tibet: Tibetan Painting after 1959. London: Reaktion Books Ltd.

Harris, Clare. 2012. The Museum on the Roof of the World: Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Supplementary readings:

Robert Beer, 2007, "Tibetan Buddhist symbols and utensils graphic", translated by Hong Hong, Beijing: China Tibetan studies press.

4

Week 11 

Civilized Shamans：Tibet's Multiverse

Required Readings:

Geoffrey Samuel , 1993, Civilized Shamans: Buddhism in Tibetan Societies, Smithsonian Institution Press

Kapstein, Matthew  The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism: Conversion, Contestation and Memory, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2000

Supplementary readings:

Keyes, Charels F. & E. Valentine Daniel, 1983 Karma: an Anthropological Inquiry. Berkley, California: University of the California Press.

4

Week 12 

Eco-spirituality and Eco-justice in Tibet sacred natural sites

Required Readings:

The Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain: Popular Pilgrimage and Visionary Landscape in Southeast Tibet, Oxford University Press, USA 1999

Toni Huber.  The holy land reborn：Pilgrimage & the Tibetan reinvention of Buddhist India .

The University of Chicago press.Chicago and London，2008.

Yeh, Emily T. 2013. Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development.Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Collins, Dawn. 2014. “Presence in Tibetan Landscapes: Spirited Agency and Ritual Healing in Rebgong.” PhD diss., Cardiff University.

Supplementary readings:

Jinba, Tenzin. 2013. In the Land of the Eastern Queendom: The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan Border. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Yeh, T, Emily and Gaerrang: Pests, keystone species, and hungry ghosts: the Gesar epic and human-pika relations on the Tibetan Plateau. Cultural Geographies 1–18.2020

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Week 13

Geopolitics:Ladākh and Sino-Indian Civilization Corridor

Required Readings:

Brill's Tibetan Studies Library English

2008,Edited by  Martijn van Beek , Edited by  Fernanda Pirie Modern Ladakh : Anthropological Perspectives on Continuity and Change

Supplementary readings:

Peace and Conflict in Ladakh : The Construction of a Fragile Web of Order,2007

Fernanda Pirie

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Week14  

Buddhism and Gender Studies：Dharma Protector Bandan Ram（དཔལ་ལྡན་ལྷ་མོ།）and Tibetan women intellectuals

Required Readings:

Diemberger, Hildegard 1993, Blood, Sperm,Soul and the mountain in Gendered Anthropology.ed.Teresa DelValle,London：Routledge.

Janet Gyatso: 2015,Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet.

Gyatso, Janet, and Hanna Havnevik, ed. 2005. Women in Tibet. New York: Columbia University Press.

Makley, Charlene. Speaking Bitterness: Autobiography,History, and Mnemonic Politics on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier.

Supplementary readings:

Makley, Charlene. 2007. The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Abu-Lughod, Lila. 2008. Writing Women’s Worlds: Bedouin Stories. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Gutschow, Kim. 2009. Being a Buddhist Nun. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

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Week 15

Dragon Boat Festival 

Week 16 

Multiple modernity in Tibet   

Required Readings:

Jabb, Lama. 2015. Oral and Literary Continuities in Modern Tibetan Literature: The Inescapable Nation. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Supplementary readings:

Catanese, Alex John. 2019. Buddha in the Marketplace: The Commodification of Buddhist Objects in Tibet. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.

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Week 17

Second visit: Dalai Lama Foundation

4

Week 18

Presentations of your term paper ideas

Term paper due－a 2,000 words essay on one of the above topics.