BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.5//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:83@buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200305T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200305T170000 DTSTAMP:20200228T214703Z URL:https://buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca/events/theorizing-wear-waste-buddh ist-efficacious-object/ SUMMARY:Theorizing the Wear and Waste of a Buddhist\, Efficacious Object DESCRIPTION:University of Toronto/McMaster University\n\nYEHAN NUMATA BUDDH IST STUDIES PROGRAM 2019-20\n\nTRINE BROX (University of Copenhagen)\n\nRE ADING GROUP: “Theorizing the Wear and Waste of a Buddhist\, Efficacious Object”\n\nTHURSDAY\, March 5\, 2020\, 3-5pm\, University of Toronto\, J HB 317\n\nThis article investigates the wear and waste of sacred\, Buddhis t material objects\, arguing that consumption is not only the usage\, with er- ing\, and destruction of something but also a productive process. More over\, the end of consumption is not always waste\, and the sacred does no t necessarily expire with consumption. Based upon ethnographies of waste i n India\, Nepal\, and China\, the article takes the Tibetan prayer wheel a s an example. The prayer wheel ranks highly in a Buddhist object hierarchy as a container of sacred script\, and prayer wheel practice promises karm ic fruits like merit\, good fortune\, and blessings\, but what happens to its integrity when it breaks down? And more generally\, I ask: How is the sacred status of Buddhist material objects affected by consumption? What i s after consumption? To an- swer these questions\, I propose that we inves tigate the prayer wheel as an afterlife object understood through the stat us and wear of the original object. This means looking into how Buddhists ascribe different meanings and status to prayer wheels\, and how that also affects their diverse post-consumption destinies either as worthless garb age or as sacred\, apotropaic\, and auspicious objects.\n\n \;\n\nLECT URE: The Afterlives of Buddhist Material Objects\n\nFRIDAY\, March 6\, 202 0\, 4-6pm\, McMaster\, University Hall 122\n\n \;\n\nTrine Brox is As sociate Professor in Modern Tibetan Studies and Director of Center for Con temporary Buddhist Studies at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regiona l Studies\, University of Copenhagen\, Denmark. She has written about cont emporaneous issues in Tibet and the Tibetan exile: Topics span from secula rism\, translations of democracy and conceptual history\, over expedition and research history\, to Buddhism and economy. Her monograph Tibetan Demo cracy: Governance\, Leadership and Conflict in Exile was published in 201 6\, she has co-edited the book On the Fringes of the Harmonious Society: Tibetans and Uyghurs in Socialist China (2014).\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca/wp-content/u ploads/2019/09/prt_www40.hentindhold_cms.jpg CATEGORIES:Lecture,Numata Program,Public Talk,Reading Group LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Rm 317\, 170 St George St\, Toronto\ , ON - Ontario\, M5R2M8\, Canada GEO:43.667732;-79.400261 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=170 St George St\, Toronto\ , ON - Ontario\, M5R2M8\, Canada;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Jackman Humani ties Building\, Rm 317:geo:43.667732,-79.400261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20191103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR