Centre of Buddhist Studies

Ayesha Fuentes

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Roles: Centre of Buddhist Studies Research Student Member
Department: Centre of Buddhist Studies
Qualifications: BA (Williams College, Art/Religion), MA (Tufts University, Art History), MA (UCLA/Getty Conservation Institute, Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials)
Email address: 642377@soas.ac.uk
Thesis title: On the use of human remains in Tibetan ritual objects
Internal Supervisors: Dr Christian Luczanits & Professor Louise Tythacott

Biography

Objects conservator and technical art historian specializing in the technologies and ritual materials of South and Southeast Asia

Research interests

Cultural technologies
Conservation ethics
Material religion

Contact Ayesha

Email: 642377@soas.ac.uk

14 March 2020

Misāyā Tisā Bareyā Nasā, or A Woman’s Jewels are the Monk’s Food: Materiality, Gender, and Buddhism in Newar Life and Poetry

14 November 2024

From teaching networks to reincarnation: The transformation of Kadampa monasteries in early Tibet

This lecture will demonstrate how Kadampa monasteries transformed from networks of teaching institutions rooted in the master–disciple relationship towards an emphasis on teaching lineages and ultimately reincarnation.

17 March 2023

Buddhist forum lecture

In the Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist world, sacred objects (ten) become sacred through processes of consecration and through their function and location.