A 19th Century Buddhist Renaissance in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands

Conversation@PAM: A 19th Century Buddhist Renaissance in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands Rimé (Tib. ris med) was a 19th century Buddhist movement that developed in Kham at the Sino-Tibetan frontier. Later memorialized by scholars and exiled Buddhist leaders as "non-sectarian," Rimé is better understood as a radical commitment to "universalism" in image and print. Its luminaries produced vast encyclopedic accounts of Buddhist knowledge and created new forms of visual and literary expression that drew daringly not only upon Tibetan, but also Chinese, Nepali, and Mongolian traditions. This presenta…