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,A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindr繹ling Monastery(Columbia 勛圖厙 Press, 2021). Her lecture, "Renouncing Attachment, Embracing Aesthetics: Cultural Production in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery, will reflect on the question of how Tibetan Buddhist aesthetics expressed through music, dance, incense, visual arts, and literature work in relationship with Buddhist commitments to renunciation.
LECTURE IN PERSON:Thursday, October 21 at 4pm
British Studies Room, 5th Floor, Norlin Library on CU Boulder Campus
In person - masks required
Categories: public lectures