BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Date iCal//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.2// METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221106T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20230312T020000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.2044.events_uoft_date.0@www.religion.utoronto.ca CREATED:20220908T173207Z DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, September 30, 2022 4:00 pm to 6:0 0 pm \n JHB 318 \n Jackman Humanities Building \n\nSpeakers \nDr. Michael Ium \n\nDescription: \nPlease note that this event will be held fully in-p erson with limited attendance. Register to secure your space. The lecture will be videorecorded.This event is part of the series Pathbreakers: New P ostdoctoral Research on South Asia at U of T and is co-sponsored by the Ce ntre for South Asian Studies.Prof. Rory Lindsay (Dept. for the Study of Re ligion, University of Toronto) will be the discussant and Dr. Christoph E mmrich (Director of the Centre for South Asian Studies; Dept. for the Stu dy of Religion and Buddhist Studies, University of Toronto) will chair th e event.Please join us at 4:00 pm for this in-person event on Friday, Sep tember 30, 2022 in room 318 of the Jackman Humanities Building.Space is l imited. Please register on Eventbrite.ca to reserve your space.Abstract Th is paper offers a reevaluation of the early patronage of the Geluk traditi on in Tibet in the fifteenth century. Due to modernist biases and an overe mphasis on the Gelukpa as embodying one pole within various dichotomous fo rmulations favored by historians of religion (for instance, as clerical r ather than shamanic), existing accounts of this patronage emphasize the i mportance of Tsongkhapa’s virtue and erudition, leading some scholars to conclude that charisma and magical power were inconsequential to the growt h of the tradition. Instead, I argue that Tsongkhapa’s status as a mahāsi ddha or “great adept” of Buddhist Tantra was a primary factor in his gaini ng patronage from the political elites of the Pakmodrupa Dynasty. This sta tus was mediated by the endorsement of the mahāsiddha Lhodrak Namkha Gyelt sen and then popularized in later biographical works (as well as within Ti betan paintings). This status also stimulated continuing patronage of the tradition, even after Tsongkhapa’s passing.Biography Michael Ium is curre ntly a doctoral candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at the Un iversity of California, Santa Barbara, as well as a postdoctoral fellow in the University of Toronto’s Department for the Study of Religion and Ro bert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies. He is primaril y a historian of religion with specialties in Tibet and South Asia. Under the guidance of his advisor José Cabezón, the focus of his dissertation i s the early history of Ganden Monastery in Tibet and how that history impa cted the construction of the Geluk tradition. He recently spent two years in Nepal and South India translating dozens of classical Tibetan texts rel ated to his dissertation. \n\nSponsors \nRobert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies, Centre for South Asian Studies \n\nCategorie s \n Lecture \n\nAudiences \n Graduate Students DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220930T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220930T180000 LAST-MODIFIED:20220915T182735Z SUMMARY:Tsongkhapa as a Mahāsiddha: A Reevaluation of the Patronage of the Gelukpa in Tibet URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.religion.utoronto.ca/events/tsongkhapa-mah%C4%81si ddha-reevaluation-patronage-gelukpa-tibet END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR