BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Date iCal//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.2// METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York 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.1471.events_uoft_date.0@www.humanities.utoronto.ca CREATED:20220926T185950Z DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, September 30, 2022 4:00 pm to 6:0 0 pm \n Room 318 \n Jackman Humanities Building \n 170 St. George Street, 3rd floor \n\nSpeakers \nMichael Ium \n\nDescription: \nPlease note that this event will be held fully in-person with limited attendance. Register to secure your space. The lecture will be videorecorded.This event is part of the series Pathbreakers: New Postdoctoral Research on South Asia at U of T and is co-sponsored by the Centre for South Asian Studies.Prof. Rory Lindsay (Dept. for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto) will be the discussant and Dr. Christoph Emmrich (Director of the Centre for South Asian Studies; Dept. for the Study of Religion and Buddhist Studies, Un iversity of Toronto) will chair the event.Please join us at 4:00 pm for th is in-person event on Friday, September 30, 2022 in room 318 of the Jack man Humanities Building.Space is limited. Please register on Eventbrite.ca to reserve your space.Abstract This paper offers a reevaluation of the ea rly patronage of the Geluk tradition in Tibet in the fifteenth century. Du e to modernist biases and an overemphasis on the Gelukpa as embodying one pole within various dichotomous formulations favored by historians of reli gion (for instance, as clerical rather than shamanic), existing accounts of this patronage emphasize the importance of Tsongkhapa’s virtue and eru dition, leading some scholars to conclude that charisma and magical power were inconsequential to the growth of the tradition. Instead, I argue th at Tsongkhapa’s status as a mahāsiddha or “great adept” of Buddhist Tantra was a primary factor in his gaining patronage from the political elites o f the Pakmodrupa Dynasty. This status was mediated by the endorsement of t he mahāsiddha Lhodrak Namkha Gyeltsen and then popularized in later biogra phical works (as well as within Tibetan paintings). This status also stimu lated continuing patronage of the tradition, even after Tsongkhapa’s pass ing.Biography Michael Ium is currently a doctoral candidate in the Departm ent of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as well as a postdoctoral fellow in the University of Toronto’s Departmen t for the Study of Religion and Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Centre fo r Buddhist Studies. He is primarily a historian of religion with specialti es in Tibet and South Asia. Under the guidance of his advisor José Cabezón , the focus of his dissertation is the early history of Ganden Monastery in Tibet and how that history impacted the construction of the Geluk tradi tion. He recently spent two years in Nepal and South India translating doz ens of classical Tibetan texts related to his dissertation. \nSponsors    Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies     Centre fo r South Asian Studies \n\nContact Information: \n Robert H.N. Ho Family Fo undation Centre for Buddhist Studies buddhiststudies@utoronto.ca Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies \n\nSponsors \nRobert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies \n170 St. George Str eet, 3rd floor \n\nCategories \n Lecture \n\nAudiences \n All DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T180000 LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T185950Z LOCATION:170 St. George Street, 3rd floor SUMMARY:Tsongkhapa as a Mahāsiddha: A Reevaluation of the Patronage of the Gelukpa in Tibet URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/events/tsongkhapa-mah%C4%81 siddha-reevaluation-patronage-gelukpa-tibet END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR