Activity Type:
Lecture
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Presenter:
Peng Hai
Date:
Thursday, February 20, 2025 - 16:00 to 17:30
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Location:
246A Porter Hall, Carnegie Mellon University
Was socialist China's fatal blow to the Tibetan theocracy in 1959 an atheist assault? Peng Hai examines how Chinese cinema justified the People's Liberation Army's dismantling of institutional Tibetan Buddhism. In the Chinese cultural war on religion, Mao and the People's Liberation Army surpassed the Dalai Lama, the pontiff of Tibetan Buddhism, and the old Lamaist establishment as the new icons of salvation and values.
UCIS Unit:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Other Pitt Sponsors:
World History Center
Non-University Sponsors:
Department of History Carnegie Mellon
Is Event Already in University Calendar?:
No
Pitt Grad Students:
2