Guest Lecture: Dominique Townsend on "Renouncing Attachment, Embracing Aesthetics"
We are delighted to welcome Dominique Townsend (Bard College) for a guest lecture on her new book,Β A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet's MindrΓΆling MonasteryΒ (Columbia University Press, 2021). Her lecture, "Renouncing Attachment, Embracing Aesthetics: Cultural Production in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery,β will reflect on the question of how Tibetan Buddhist aesthetics β expressed through music, dance, incense, visual arts, and literature β work in relationship with Buddhist commitments to renunciation.
LECTURE IN PERSON:Β Thursday, October 21 at 4pm
British Studies Room, 5th Floor, Norlin Library on CU ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ Campus
In person - masks required
Categories: public lectures