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SUMMARY:Prof. Dr. Lewis Doney: Tibetan Buddhist Art in a Leisure Context
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DESCRIPTION:Tibetan Buddhist historiography tends towards a “borderland 
 complex” that fueled fascination with\, and pilgrimage to\, holy sites i
 n South Asia. Yet\, focusing on central Nepal—as both a destination for 
 devotees and a periphery from the perspective of the major sites of the Bu
 ddha’s life—problematises applying such discourse to modern times. Kat
 hmandu’s Boudhanath Stūpa has on its own periphery a newly created “G
 hyoilisang Pond and Peace Park” devoted to the eighth-century tantric ma
 ster and “second Buddha\,” Padmasambhava. This site expresses Tibetan\
 , Newar\, Tamang and other Himalayan identities as part of its architectur
 e\, iconography and as used by pilgrims\, tourists and locals. Yet the par
 k is also a leisure destination funded in part by the Chinese Embassy in K
 athmandu and run by Nepali municipal administrators. This presentation ana
 lyses its ecology in relation to other sites visited by followers of Tibet
 an Buddhism in Nepal that are both old and new.
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URL:https://www.ioa.uni-bonn.de/aik/de/nachrichten/prof-dr-lewis-doney-tib
 etan-buddhist-art-in-a-leisure-context
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