AAR Member Note

Maria Turek

Awards and Accomplishments

2020 Research Fellow in The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies 

Her project "Re-Imagining the Buddhist Kingdom of Nangchen” places contemporary local and diasporic discourses around the historical Tibetan kingdom of Nangchen (1300-1951) in its center to ask how today, mnemonic practices and the revival of traditional historiography contribute to the global re-imaginings of Nangchen as a Buddhist society. This research highlights the moral and metaphysical aspects of remembering through which a local historical identity is re-imagined in global context. 

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