<p>These are the minutes from the business meeting held on June 29, 2000, at the 9th seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies in Leiden, the Netherlands. (Ben Deitle 2006-03-09)</p>
<p>Study of a Kangyur (bka' 'gyur, also Kanjur) manuscript from Batang in Kham (<em>khams</em>; eastern Tibet).</p>
<p>A study attempting to ascertain more clearly which texts, particularly tantric texts, were translated into Tibetan in the eighth and ninth centuries. The author compares several source materials including the <em>Lhan kar ma</em> list, Dunhuang texts, Chinese translations of tantric texts, and later Tibetan catalogues. From these comparisons, the author makes some brief remarks on the development of Tantric Buddhism in Tibet in the eighth and ninth centuries. (Ben Deitle 2006-05-03)</p>
<p>This paper looks at how Tibetan and Indian architectural styles combined in the Western Himalaya, taking the <em>Lo tsA ba lha khang</em> of Ribba as an example. The temple's structure and sculptures are described in detail. The first part of the paper sets the context in which the temple was built by outlining the changing religious and political climate of the Western Himalayan border regions as they went from being peripheral areas during the first diffusion of Buddhism in Tibet to being right at the cross-roads of the second diffusion. (Ben Deitle 2006-05-04)</p>
This introduction brings together a group of papers focusing on conservation theory and practice, and argues strongly for a new place-based conservation through a multispecies lens. Honouring the work of Brian Morris, a scholar who has consistently forged a persuasive set of conceptual connections between science and society, and building on his insights into environmental history and human-nature interactions, we outline a vision of conservation that incorporates new narratives – at the intersection between the ecological and the social – to reimagine the world in the Anthropocene. This includes challenging the persistence of fortress, neoprotectionist and other top-down forms of conservation, through a recognition that conservation is deeply rooted in (human, nonhuman and more-thanhuman) senses of place. The introduction urges scholars to focus on landscapes as units of analysis: ‘multispecies assemblages’ that are easily overlooked at other spatial and historical scales. It calls for increased attention to the contact zones where the lives of humans and other species biologically, culturally and politically intersect, as a counterpoint to the dominant planetary perspective of earth systems and conservation science. It underlines the importance of deep relational analyses of human interactions with other life forms, through renewed attention to multispecies histories, locality, and forms of knowledge rooted in place. It is at this level, through historically nuanced accounts founded on a more place-based conception of ourselves as a species, that new narratives and answers to our current predicament will emerge.
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