Saturday morning
9:00-9:45 Sarah Jacoby, “Autobiographical Ventriloquy in a Tibetan Woman’s Life Narrative”
9:45-10:30 Janet Gyatso, “Tripping Down the Stairs: On the Way to Enlightenment in the Life Story of Milarepa”
Respondent Paula Varsano (Classical Chinese Literature)
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:30 Brandon Dotson, “Reading Life the Dead Horse Listens: Textualized Funeral Rituals as Literature”
11:30-12:15 Jann Ronis, “Epistolary Earrings for the Royals of Dergé”
Respondent Andrew Jones (Modern Chinese Literature)
12:15-1:30 lunch
Saturday afternoon
1:30-2:15 Jake Dalton, “The Rise of the Evocative Language in Early Tantric Buddhist Ritual Manuals”
2:15-3:00 Ben Bogin
Respondent Harsha Ram (Russian Literature)
3:00-3:45 Nancy Lin, “Filling Vases and Stringing Garlands: Condensing Buddhist Stories in Tibet”
3:45-4:30 Holly Gayley, “Tibetan Epistolary Revelations: Performative Speech in the Correspondence of a Buddhist Visionary Couple”
Respondent Mack Horton (Premodern Japanese Literature)
4:30-4:45 Coffee Break
4:45-5:30 Kurtis Schaeffer, “Two Approaches to the Life of the Buddha in Tibet 1: Nanam Tsunpa (late 15th c.)”
5:30-6:15 Andrew Quintman, “Two Approaches to the Life of the Buddha in Tibet 2: Tāranātha (1575–1634)
Open discussion
Sunday morning
9:00-9:45 Jonathan Gold, “Clear Words and Subtle meaning: Sakya Pandita’s Approach to Prayer (bstod pa)”
9:45-10:30 Carl Yamamoto, “Lama Zhang: Self-Shaming Requested by Gurub Réwaki”
10:30-11:15 Gendun Rabsal and Nicole Willock, “Tibetan Literary Tradition: The Avadāna of Silver Flowers by Tseten Zhabdrung Jikmé Rigpai Lödro”
Respondent Alan Tansman (Modern Japanese Literature)
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Roundup Session
Participant Observers
Roger Jackson, Carleton College
Lara Braitstein, McGill University
Frances Garrett, University of Toronto
Marcus Perman, Tsadra Foundation
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