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A Sino-Tibetan-Western Interfaith Dialogue at Mount Gongga 貢嘎山 in Western Sichuan in the Summer of 1945

DEPARTMENT:

Centre for Translation

CONYTRIBUTOR / SPEAKER:

BAI, Yunfei

RELEASE DATE:

2021

LENGTH:

106 Minutes

VIDEO TYPE:

Scholarly Talks

Drawing on primary sources in Tibetan, Chinese, and English, this talk reconstructs a series of interreligious conversations that took place in July and August, 1945 at Mount Gongga (Chinese: 貢嘎山; Tibetan: Mi-nyag gangs-dkar) between two Western journalists, George Henry Johnston (1912–1970) and James Cobb Burke (1915–1964), and various members of the Sino-Tibetan Buddhist community based at Mount Gongga. These included the ninth Bo Gangkar Rinpoché Karma bshad-sgrub chos-kyi seng-ge (1892–1957) and his Chinese female disciple, Shen Shuwen 申書文 (1903–1997), who later became a key propagator of Tibetan Buddhism in Taiwan, where she was known as Gongga Laoren 貢嘎老人, or Elder Gongga.

Despite their deep interest in Mount Gongga and its residents—which the two Western travelers believed to have offered the prototype for James Hilton's Shangri-la in the latter's 1933 best-selling novel Lost Horizon—the intercultural encounter itself was characterized by misunderstanding and incomprehension. This was so much so that Johnston ended up depicting the Old Gongga monastery (Chinese: 老貢嘎寺; Tibetan: 'Bo gangs dkar dgon)—a sacred site of the Karma Kagyü school of Tibetan Buddhism—as a dystopia mingled with sophistry, mysticism, and commercialism. Viewed from multiple perspectives, this encounter occurring in the Chinese borderlands of the republican period may serve as a historical precedent for rethinking the protracted contacts between Tibetan Buddhism and other epistemological traditions in the present day.

A Sino-Tibetan-Western Interfaith Dialogue at Mount Gongga 貢嘎山 in Western Sichuan in the Summer of 1945

部門:

翻譯學研究中心

講者:

BAI, Yunfei

發佈日期:

2021

影片長度:

106 分鐘

影片類型:

學術論壇

A Sino-Tibetan-Western Interfaith Dialogue at Mount Gongga 貢嘎山 in Western Sichuan in the Summer of 1945

部门:

翻译学研究中心

讲者:

BAI, Yunfei

发布日期:

2021

影片长度:

106 分钟

影片类型:

学术论坛

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