BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//6.4.7.1//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:135@buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220930T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220930T180000 DTSTAMP:20220929T182603Z URL:https://buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca/events/michael-ium-pathbreakers/ SUMMARY:Dr. Michael Ium\, "Tsongkhapa as a Mahāsiddha: A Reevaluation of the Patronage of the Gelukpa in Tibet" DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael Ium (Dept. for the Study of Religion/Buddhist Studi es\, University of Toronto) will present a lecture titled\, "Tsongkhapa as a Mahāsiddha: A Reevaluation of the Patronage of the Gelukpa in Tibet."\ n\nThis event is part of the series Pathbreakers: New Postdoctoral Researc h on South Asia at U of T and is co-sponsored by the Centre for South Asia n Studies.\n\nProf. Rory Lindsay (Dept. for the Study of Religion\, Univer sity of Toronto) will be the discussant and Dr. Christoph Emmrich (Directo r of the Centre for South Asian Studies\; Dept. for the Study of Religion and Buddhist Studies\, University of Toronto) will chair the event.\n\nPle ase join us at 4:00 pm for this in-person event on Friday\, September 30\, 2022 in room 318 of the Jackman Humanities Building. This event will also be video recorded and will be available on our YouTube channel.\n\n \ ;\n\nSpace is limited. Please register on Eventbrite.ca to reserve your sp ace.\nAbstract\nThis paper offers a reevaluation of the early patronage of the Geluk tradition in Tibet in the fifteenth century. Due to modernist b iases and an overemphasis on the Gelukpa as embodying one pole within vari ous dichotomous formulations favored by historians of religion (for instan ce\, as clerical rather than shamanic)\, existing accounts of this patrona ge emphasize the importance of Tsongkhapa’s virtue and erudition\, leadi ng some scholars to conclude that charisma and magical power were inconseq uential to the growth of the tradition. Instead\, I argue that Tsongkhapa ’s status as a mahāsiddha or “great adept” of Buddhist Tantra was a primary factor in his gaining patronage from the political elites of the Pakmodrupa Dynasty. This status was mediated by the endorsement of the mah āsiddha Lhodrak Namkha Gyeltsen and then popularized in later biographica l works (as well as within Tibetan paintings). This status also stimulated continuing patronage of the tradition\, even after Tsongkhapa’s passing .\nBiography\nMichael 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 Cabez ón\, the focus of his dissertation is the early history of Ganden Monaste ry in Tibet and how that history impacted the construction of the Geluk tr adition. He recently spent two years in Nepal and South India translating dozens of classical Tibetan texts related to his dissertation.\n\n \;\ n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca/wp-content/u ploads/2022/08/Ium-photo.jpg CATEGORIES:Lecture LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Rm 318\, 170 St. George St\, Toronto \, ON\, M5R2M8\, Canada GEO:43.6677316;-79.4002638 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=170 St. George St\, Toronto \, ON\, M5R2M8\, Canada;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Jackman Humanities Buil ding\, Rm 318:geo:43.6677316,-79.4002638 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR