All Compounded Things are Subject to Decay: an Archaeology of Tibetan Buddhism

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• Professor Mark Aldenderfer
• Monday 02 May 2016, 16:00-17:30
• McDonald Institute Seminar Room.

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For most westerners, Buddhism is timeless, and Tibet remote and romantic. For the historical Buddha, his last words remind us of the impermanence of all things. For the archaeologist, however, the material expression of Buddhism on the Tibetan Plateau offers insights into the transformation and evolution of Buddhist thought as it encounters indigenous, pre-Buddhist conceptions of landscape and religion, borrowings of ritual from Central and East Asia, and the changing political fortunes of the emerging Tibetan empire.

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