In a Borrowed Garden: A Rhizomatic Theory of Transnational Tibetan Art
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According to standard interpretations of the Tibetan diaspora, with the incorporation of Tibet into the Peoples Republic of China in the 1950s, all art in Tibet itself is degenerate, and the Tibetans in exile are framed as the sole custodians of their imperiled traditions. However, is it accurate to portray the 5.4 million Tibetans who still live in Chinese-occupied Tibet as having utterly repudiated their culture? This study seeks to answer this question through a comparative study of the parallel developments in diaspora of Tibetan Buddhist sculpture, based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in workshops in exilic Dharamsala, India and in Chengdu, the major Chinese city closest to geographic Tibet.
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Name(s)
Author: Cheong, Yongneng Conan
Thesis advisor: Wagoner, Phillip
Date
April 15, 2012
Extent
226 pages
Language
eng
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Physical Form
electronic
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In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted
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PID
ir:292