/rlst/ en /rlst/2021/10/13/guest-lecture-dominique-townsend-renouncing-attachment-embracing-aesthetics <span>Guest Lecture: Dominique Townsend on "Renouncing Attachment, Embracing Aesthetics"</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2021-10-13T16:45:32-06:00" title="Wednesday, October 13, 2021 - 16:45">Wed, 10/13/2021 - 16:45</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/rlst/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/thi_flyer_-_dominique_townsend_lecture-cropped.jpg?h=008bfb09&amp;itok=UVvTQ0QW" width="1200" height="800" alt="Buddhist illustration"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/rlst/taxonomy/term/99"> public lectures </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/rlst/taxonomy/term/59" hreflang="en">Buddhism</a> <a href="/rlst/taxonomy/term/97" hreflang="en">aesthetics</a> <a href="/rlst/taxonomy/term/95" hreflang="en">attachment</a> <a href="/rlst/taxonomy/term/93" hreflang="en">religion</a> <a href="/rlst/taxonomy/term/67" hreflang="en">translation</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="ucb-article-content-media ucb-article-content-media-above"> <div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--media paragraph--view-mode--default"> </div> </div> </div> <div class="ucb-article-text d-flex align-items-center" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><p>We are delighted to welcome Dominique Townsend (Bard College) for a guest lecture on her new book,&nbsp;<em>A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery&nbsp;</em>(Columbia University 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.</p> <p><strong>LECTURE IN PERSON:&nbsp;</strong>Thursday, October 21 at 4pm<br> British Studies Room, 5th Floor, Norlin Library on ���Ҵ�ý�ƽ������ Campus</p> <p><i>In person - masks required</i></p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Wed, 13 Oct 2021 22:45:32 +0000 Anonymous 1295 at /rlst