As part of the Himalayan Studies Conference V, Lama Jabb gave a keynote talk on Saturday, September 2, 2017 at 11am in Humanities 150. The keynote was titled "The Rise, Fall and Vagrancy of a Mountain Deity: A Poetic Account of Tibet".
Lama Jabb is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Tibetan Literature at the Faculty of Oriental Studies as well as a Research Fellow in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies at Wolfson College of Oxford University. His research explores intertextuality in modern Tibetan literature, particularly the interplay between texts and oral traditions, as well as translation theory and practice. He is currently focusing on a volume on the unexplored genre of Tibetan bird stories, titled The Treasury of Intellect: Narrating the Worldly Tale of the Winged Ones. His publications include Oral and Literary Continuities in Modern Tibetan Literature: The Inescapable Nation (2015) and contributions of original literary works to Butter Lamp: Tibetan Literature Literature Website. His articles on modern Tibetan literature have appeared in the International Journal of Asian Studies and Revue d'Etudes Tibetaines.
Video/Sound by Rupak Shrestha and Tim Geurkink
