2017
Matthew William King
- Assistant Professor
- University of California, Riverside
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Abstract
Life writing began to be pursued with vigor in Tibetan cultural regions beginning in the twelfth century. This workshop will host an interdisciplinary team of scholar to read together a widespread but neglected Tibetan autobiographical genre known as "records of teachings received" (Tib. gsan yig/thob yig). Each day, two participants will direct our reading of selections a gsan yig text. Together we will: 1) identify, translate, and interpret sections from each text where the author discusses their work as literature (ie. reflections on style, rhetorical devices, and gsan yig as literary self-stylization) and 2) discuss future collaborative digital humanities projects that could better map and share the mass data points described in these texts (persons, places, transmission).