Andrew Quintman
Buddhism in Tibet & Himalaya | Religion Dept @ Wesleyan U | The Yogin & the Madman | The Life of Milarepa | http://journaloftibetanliterature.org | http://lifeofthebuddha.org | www.andrewquintman.com | #TibetanStudies #BuddhistStudies #seakayaking
- For Saga Dawa Duchen, the Tibetan commemoration of Buddha Śākyamuni's birth, enlightenment and parinirvāṇa. 📷 from Zhalu Monastery, Tibet
- Busy end of semester so haven’t really posted at all. But had dinner at the mouth of the CT River last night and now cleaning off kayak gear listening to Patrick O’Brian, so it must be summer right?
- #SeaKayakSunday Stonington, CT to Fishers Island, NY playing in the tide races at Latimer Light and the cans. Winds 15-20 kts, seas 3-4 ft. Gonna be sore tomorrow. (No action shots for obvious reasons.) #seakayak #seakayaking
- Reposted by Andrew QuintmanIdentified as a "Buddhist priest" and holding a prayer wheel, a figure such as this would have passed for a generic Tibetan lama in the visual language of the early 20th century. In this case, however, we also know this monk's name: Sherab Gyatso. 🧵 🗃️ 📜 #Tibet
- Took a little social media break but now I'm back. So here's Luna after enjoying the freshly mowed lawn.
- Spending the next few days thinking about Buddhism in Imperial Period Tibet. Meghan Howard has put together a stellar lineup to discuss work on and from Dunhuang. macmillan.yale.edu/eastasia/eve... #TibetanStudies
- Keynote lecture by Matthew Kapstein “Wisdom and Tradition in Imperial Tibet: Apropos of Gtsug lag once more”
- In the final formal presentation of the conference, Lewis Doney brings early Tibet back to the study of religion.
- Reposted by Andrew QuintmanPretty sure this is the best Wikipedia page you’ll have read this week.
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- Reposted by Andrew QuintmanAppearing on the Sinica podcast was a bucket list sort of thing. Thanks to @kaiserkuo.bsky.social for having me on to talk about ethnopolitics in China. There's more I wish I had said, and some things I wish I had said differently, but give it a listen! www.sinicapodcast.com/p/live-at-pi...
- Watching Mon Mothma dance in that wedding scene, this is pretty much the first thing I thought of, ngl.
- this was the second thing
- #Andor obvs
- I often poll my students: is Buddhism a philosophy, a religion, or a way of life (choose only one)? They increasingly choose religion, and if they don't at the start of class, they definitely do by the end. 👏 👏 👏
- Reposted by Andrew QuintmanOne of my main teaching goals lately is to show that Buddhism is indeed a religion and not just a way of life, and that the Buddha is actually kinda central to it…
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- Reposted by Andrew QuintmanTales of Tourist Photos, Pt. 1: If photography changed the way people viewed the world, the Eastman Kodak camera transformed the late Victorian practice of tourism. The handheld Kodak made photography available to casual amateurs, creating the vernacular form of snapshot photography. 🧵 🗃️ 📜 #Japan
- Reposted by Andrew Quintman📚 We added 33 new translations in April, incl. texts by Garab Dorje, Śrī Siṃha, Jigme Lingpa (1730–1798), Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (1820–1892), Khenchen Ngawang Palzang (1879–1941), Drimé Özer (1881–1924), Sera Khandro (1892–1940), Gendün Chöpel (1903–1951), Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910–1991)...
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- Reposted by Andrew QuintmanFrom the Yum Chenmo above to the trio of figures below, this Dorje Sempa yab yum is atypical. At least 2 artists contributed, with a steadier hand rendering the main deity pair as compared to the flanking Kagyu & Drukpa Kagyu lineage figures. 📷: NMB #ThangkaTuesday #himalaya #bhutan #buddhistart
- Reposted by Andrew QuintmanThe Atlas Chinensis by Olfert Dapper (1636–1689) is among the most visually embellished European treatments of China from the late 17th century. Never traveling to Asia, Dapper used reports from the 2nd and 3rd Dutch embassies to China and consulted older Jesuit accounts. 🧵 🗃️ 🀄️📚 #China
- Reposted by Andrew QuintmanExquisite nails & cuff on this manicule! From the life of St Mochóemóc founder of Leighmore, Co. Tipperary, in The 'Codex Kilkenniensis', our 15th century collection of the lives of Irish saints #ManiculeMonday #ManuscriptMonday
- Reposted by Andrew Quintman🎉📜Happy #ManuscriptMonday with this wonderful illumination that depicts the Siege of Antioch (1097-1098) BnF, Français 779, fol. 37v #sscle #middleages #medieval #crusade #crusades #latineast #manuscript #medievalmanuscript #art #antioch #illumination
- Reposted by Andrew Quintman"Our temporary bodies are like floating clouds, and our grasslike lives resemble a flash of lightning." Words written after the passing of Gyōshin, a monk near the top of the 8th-c. Japanese monastic order, preserved in the colophon to this sutra #ManuscriptMonday colbase.nich.go.jp/collection_i...
- #ManuscriptMonday Writing to the Dalai Lama edition. A letter & envelope dated March 18, 1946, addressed to the Regent of Tibet (perhaps Takdrak Rinpoche) on behalf of the 14th Dalai Lama, written by Wesley Needham, librarian at the Beinecke Rare book & Manuscript Library. 1/
- Wesley Needham was a fascinating figure. Through his correspondence w/ the 14th Dalai Lama, he was able to request a woodblock print edition of the 100-volume Lhasa edition of the Kangyur, rare in the west at that time. It travelled by horse caravan & freighter, reaching New Haven in February 1950.
- Needham was interested in all sorts of things, and took copious notes. He helped Tsepon Shakabpa come to New Haven and publish A Political History of Tibet. He also worked with the Mongolian reincarnate lama Dilowa Hetukhtu to study various elements of Tibetan Buddhism. 3/
- More on the Kangyur that Needham arranged (@babelstone.co.uk beat me to posting it) bsky.app/profile/babe...
- Late #SeaKayakSunday posting. Exciting big-water day around Jamestown, RI on Sunday: winds gusting to 25 kts and swell at about 4 ft. Got to work through some incident management in the rocks & luckily everyone was okay with just a broken paddle in the end. #seakayaking #seakayak
- Wonderful evening yesterday with the 5-College Buddhist Studies faculty group to discuss the late Peter Gregory’s last unpublished essay on the autobiographical writing of Zongmi. Thanks to @protass.bsky.social for his moving opening remarks.
- And so glad I had a chance to say farewell to the singular Jay Garfield, philosopher extraordinaire and my undergrad advisor, before he moves to Tasmania in a couple of weeks.
- Wonderful evening yesterday with the 5-College Buddhist Studies faculty group to discuss the late Peter Gregory’s last unpublished essay on the autobiographical writing of Zongmi. Thanks to @protass.bsky.social for his moving opening remarks.
- Also this: "The disciplines of American studies and religion saw the largest declines in the number of institutions awarding degrees in these disciplines over that time period" www.amacad.org/sites/defaul...
- Lots of fascinating, although not always heartening, data, in this report: The Academic Humanities Today: Findings from the 2024 Department Survey www.amacad.org/humanities-i...
- Reposted by Andrew Quintmanwhoa religion is halving itself
- Reposted by Andrew QuintmanGenerosity is the theme of this #ThangkaTuesday. This charming Vajradhara (རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་།), Holder of the Indestructible, is in a private collection shown to me years ago. I adore its simplicity & beauty, and that little extra head tilt. My gratitude to those who have shown me so much. #himalaya #bhutan
- Reposted by Andrew QuintmanBefore nickelodeons and cinema halls, “magic lantern” shows were an important part of popular American entertainment. Hand tinted glass slides were used by children’s story tellers, stage magicians, and traveling public lecturers in town and cities across the United States. 🧵 🗃️ 📜 #Japan
- Reposted by Andrew QuintmanIt's #ManuscriptMonday! The Irk Bitig, a Book of Divination from the 9th–10th centuries CE was probably written in Old Turkic in Turkic Runes and was found in the Dunhuang cave complex in western China! You can read more about it here: idp.bl.uk/blog/an-omen...
- #ManuscriptMonday Jesuits in Tibet edition. First page of Jesuit Missionary and early Tibetologist Ippolito Desideri's fascinating early 18th-c treatise _Inquiry concerning the Doctrines of Previous Lives and Emptiness, Offered to the Scholars of Tibet by the Star Head Lama called Ippolito_ 1/
- Desideri's _Inquiry_ is a massive work of over 464 handwritten Tibetan pages, giving a detailed refutation of the basic ideas of Buddhism, such as karma & rebirth, based on his own careful reading of Tibetan Buddhist treatises such as Tsongkhapa's Great Stages of the Path (Lam rim chen mo). 2/
- The outline (sa bcad) of Desideri's _Inquiry_ follows a traditional Tibetan format:
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View full threadA careful study and partial translation of Desideri's Inquiry have been published in Lopez, Donald S, and Thupten Jinpa. Dispelling the Darkness : A Jesuit’s Quest for the Soul of Tibet. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... 5/
- Official announcement tibet.net/his-holiness...
- What happened this morning?
- Wake me up when there's white smoke.
- Reposted by Andrew Quintman“His Holiness Pope Francis dedicated himself to the service of others, consistently revealing by his own actions how to live a simple, but meaningful life. The best tribute we can pay to him is to be a warm-hearted person, serving others wherever and in whatever way we can.” ~The Dalai Lama~
- That map on the cover is amazing, and I'm not surprised to see the Potala Palace used as a metonym for both Lhasa and Tibet as a whole. Worth taking a moment to follow the link below.
- A partial "Asia" album of Chocolat Pupier trade cards from the 1930s is viewable through the Bastaire Collection at Clermont Auvergne University. Overall, its neat collection of popular French literature, often illustrated. tinyurl.com/mvnsnwcm
- Reposted by Andrew QuintmanIt certainly could provide insight into a popular "visual lexicon" of Asia at the time! There's some albums available for sale online, but I've just posted a partial catalogue held by a French university. bsky.app/profile/pete...
- A partial "Asia" album of Chocolat Pupier trade cards from the 1930s is viewable through the Bastaire Collection at Clermont Auvergne University. Overall, its neat collection of popular French literature, often illustrated. tinyurl.com/mvnsnwcm
- The beta version of the BDRC archive search is a major improvement. If you haven't seen it yet, check it out.
- Please note these new texts are only findable on BUDA 2.0 beta.bdrc.io. N.B. most of the books we OCRed for this are under copyright so we can only show you contextual search results that are similar to “snippet view” on Google Books - but we allow for unlimited searches w/in copyrighted etexts.
- Reposted by Andrew QuintmanBDRC’s collection of searchable etexts was just increased by 900,000 pages! The full-text contents of this massive store of Tibetan literature will enhance your experience finding information and relevant passages. These 900k pages of etexts were generated by applying OCR to 3k vols of Tib. books.
- Reposted by Andrew QuintmanEuropean and American chocolatiers were among the businesses that embraced the use of beautifully illustrated advertising trade cards. To inspire collection, the cards often depicted romantic, if not highly stereotyped, imagery. 🧵 🗃️ 📜 #Japan
- Reposted by Andrew QuintmanBuddhist traditions typically hold three-month retreats during the rainy season. Have you ever wondered how the tradition of doing retreats during wet weather got started? The origins, timing, and procedures of the rains retreat are meticulously described in The Chapter on the Rains (Toh 1-4),
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- Tibetan author writes a life of the Buddha in 125 chapters, each begins with a chapter title, great. They are preceded by an enumerated table of contents with each chapter listed, sure. This is preceded by a list of chapter titles in verse, ok. But every version of a chapter title is different, lol.
- Reminds me of the great essay by Dan Martin on Tibetan tables of contents (dkar chag): "We may seem to be proposing that "tables of contents" as we usually understand the term should be recognized as one of the great genres of Tibetan literature." Tibetan authors sure do love them.
- Reposted by Andrew QuintmanFinally got here!
- Reposted by Andrew QuintmanBhikkhu Bodhi posted a letter from the Buddhist Council of New York in support of Mohsen Mahdawi. Excerpt: "Mohsen has been a clear and consistent advocate for peace, human dignity, and nonviolence. At no time has he expressed or endorsed hate speech or divisive rhetoric of any kind."
- Reposted by Andrew Quintmancf: Pigs eat the flesh of dead men; People eat the innards of dead pigs. Pigs do not abhor the stink of man; And men, for their part, say pigs are fragrant. ... If both would just stop eating each other, Lotus flowers would grow in boiling soup. - Hanshan www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
- Reposted by Andrew QuintmanAlways liked that old story and the verse in Tibetan: འཕགས་པ་ཀ་ཏྱཱ་ནས། ཕ་ཤ་ཟ་ཞིང་མ་ལ་རྡེག༎ ལས་ངན་དགྲ་བོ་པང་ན་བཟུང༌༎ ཆུང་མས་ཁྱོ་ཡི་རུས་པ་འཆའ༎ འཁོར་བའི་ཆོས་ལ་གད་མོ་བྲོ༎
