News item posted on: April 7th, 2023
UVA Tibet Center is pleased to join the Virginia Center for the Study of Religion in supporting an online talk by Dr. Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia: “Repairing Relations: Caring for the Sacred Habitat Across Dimensions in Sikkimese Ritual Cosmologies”
Based at UC Riverside, Dr. Bhutia’s research focuses on environmental histories and the relationships between ecology, development, history, and the vibrant communities of and near Sikkim. His current projects include a Wenner-Gren grant to support a collaborative project between regional scholars to deconstruct colonial representations of the eastern Himalaya, and an ACLS Fellowship. More on Dr. Bhutia’s ACLS-funded projects here: https://www.acls.org/fellow-grantees/kalzang-dorjee-bhutia/
Dr. Bhutia’s talk is one of two organized by UVA Religious Studies doctoral candidate Devin Zuckerman on the theme of Environmental Repair & Relatedness in Himalayan Buddhism as part of her course Buddhism and Environmental Thought and Practice (RELB2067).
