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Ben Deitle Seminar Assignments
Week 2 (1/29/2007): Timeline Assignment - Blue Annals Ch 2
Status of assignment: final.
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Timeline Blue Annals Chapter 2
Comments:Timeline of Blue Annals Ch 2 has been entered into an Excel file. Should soon be imported to the Timeline database.
Created 113 event entries. Added all events with a specific date from Blue Annals chapter 4. Gave short (usually one line) summary of each event, event type, subjects, priority, source, translated passage, and Tibetan date information.
Week 3 (2/5/2007): Biography Assignment - Rin chen bzang po
Status of assignment: final.
View here: Biography of Rin chen bzang po
Comments: I have added an analysis of Rinchen Zangpo as he appears in the Blue Annals, and a short section on Rinchen Zangpo in the renaissance period. These are followed by the THDL biography templates. I still might add more on his particular translations if I have time.
Week 4 (2/12/2007): Place Essay - Samyé Monastery
Status of assignment: final.
View here: Samyé
Comments: This was a collaboration between Luke Wagner and myself. We collectively wrote the general introduction. We divided the Blue Annals so that each of us looked at references to Samyé in half of the Blue Annals (Luke took the first half, and I the latter half). Then we got together and discussed the references in our respective halves and what we thought was interesting, which lead to the section on Samyé in the Blue Annals.
Week 5 (2/19/2007): Summary of Blue Annals - Ch 4
Status of assignment: final.
View here: Blue Annals Chapter 4
Comments: I edited grammar and factual mistakes, as well as expanding or rewriting sections as I saw fit. I did not get around to replacing all wylie with phonetics.
Week 6 (2/26/2007): Term Dictionary Analysis
Status of assignment: in process.
Comments: skor is finished. I have collected references for gzhung, but have not begun analysis.
Week 7 (3/12/2007): Annoted Thematic Bibliography - Bon Bibliography
Status of assignment: final.
View here: Bon Bibliography
Comments: Collaborated with Jed Verity on this one. I added most of the western scholarship entries. I placed these under topical headings and added descriptions and links when I could. A few of the Tibetan entries were mine as well. Jed wrote the two introductory paragraphs and most of the Tibetan language entries.
Week 8 (3/19/2007): Thematic Markup - Chapter 11 English
Status of assignment: final.
View here: Blue Annals English Translation Chapter 11 revised markup
Comments: Cleaned up this file a lot. Corrected many instances of uncorrected wylie transcription. Also revised a lot of mark-up, and added markup.
Week 9 (3/26/2007): Reference Analysis of Chapter 11
Status of assignment: final.
View here: Reference Analysis of Blue Annals Chapter 11
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Week 10 (4/2/2007): Organization Essay - The Imperial Court
Status of assignment: in progress.
View here: The Imperial Court
Comments: I have pulled out the relevant references within the Blue Annals but have only begun the analysis. This is meant to be a look at the way the "imperial court," mainly the emperor and his retinue in both the Yuan and Ming dynasties but also other courts, within the Blue Annals and the Renaissance period. Trying to understand what the "imperial court" means as a symbol of legitimacy within Tibetan society, as a real arbitrator of political power and spiritual significance, and as an agent in itself in the religious and political affairs of Tibet. Do the Blue Annals make clear distinctions between reign periods and even dynasties, or are the "imperial courts" more some kind of vague conglomerate that seeps into the narrative for various ends?
Week 11 (4/9/2007): Event Analysis
Status of assignment: in progress.
View here: Founding of Nenang monastery, Recognition of the Third Karmapa
Comments: two of three done.
Week 12 (4/15/2007): Structured Monastery Entry
Status of assignment: final.
View here: jo nang, 'tshal gung thang, gnas nang, bde chen
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Week 13 (4/23/2007): Thematic Markup - Chapter 13 Tibetan
Status of assignment: final.
View here: Blue Annals Tibetan Text Chapter 13 marked-up.doc
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Week 14 (4/30/2007): Gazetteer Feature Entry
Status of assignment: final.
View here: gung thang, mang yul, ding ri
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