Nepal/Himalayan Conf May 10

[witzel at HUSC3.HARVARD.EDU]

COMMITTEE ON SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
--- HIMALAYAN COLLOQIUM  ---


We take pleasure in inviting all interested to a one day symposium on 
the Himalayas, focussing on Nepal, Uttar Khand and Kashmir:



                SYMPOSIUM ON NEPAL AND THE HIMALAYAS

Gerald Berreman (UC Berkeley) : 
Comparing the Nepalese and Indian Response to Ethnographic Research in the 
Himalayas

Michael Witzel (Harvard U) :   
The Nagas of Kashmir in Myth, Ethnography and Sacred Geography

Enrica Garzilli (Harvard Law School):
Kashmir iN Abhinavagupta's Description of the World



Jaya Raj Acharya (CFIA, Harvard, former UN Ambassador of Nepal): 
Poetics in Licchavi Inscriptions

Ramesh Dhungel (Tribhuvan U, Kathmandu):
Mustang, Past and Present 

Todd Lewis (College of the Holy Cross): 
Rituals of Old Age and Death: 
Ushnishvijaya and Sukhavati Aspirations in Newar Buddhism

Keiko Yamanaka (UC Berkeley): 
Nepalese Labor Migrants in Japan and Returned



Participants and Discussants include: William Fisher (Harvard U), Leonard 
van der Kuijp (Harvard U), Bruce Owen (Harvard U), Steve Parrish (Boston U),
Theodore Riccardi (Columbia U), Eduard Sekler (Harvard U), Julia Thompson
(Williams College)



TIME & PLACE 
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Friday, May 10, 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m., EMERSON Hall 307, Harvard University.


                      All interested are welcome.



Sponsored by: 
COMMITTEE ON SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES
HARVARD UNIVERSITY  






> From 101456.3175 at CompuServe.COM 04 96 May EDT 12:27:32
Date: 04 May 96 12:27:32 EDT
From: Gillian Gloyer <101456.3175 at CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Kalanos the gymnosophist

Arrian gives an account of the self-immolation of Kalanos in Anabasis VII, but a
number of other historians (e.g. Plutarch) also report it, and the story was
well-known. Alexander had met  a group of digambara ascetics in Taxila and was
so impressed he wanted one of them to join his personal entourage. The ascetics
weren't quite so impressed by him, and Kalanos was the only volunteer. Once they
got back to Persia he became progressively more ill, and finally persuaded
Alexander to build a pyre for him.

Of course this still doesn't get us any closer to influences on Plato. Doesn't
Herodotus mention an Indian detachment fighting with the Persian army ( I admit
this is not much of a lead)?

Gillian Gloyer