Losing the Water Tower? Assessing the Consequences of Climate Change on the Tibetan Plateau.

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Losing the Water Tower? Assessing the Consequences of Climate Change on the Tibetan Plateau.
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This is a past event

The next meeting of the Chinese Studies Group will be on Tuesday 28th January 2020. The speaker will be Dr Martin Mills, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen and Director of the Scottish Centre for Himalayan Research. Dr Mills'  principal research focus is the anthropological study of Tibetan communities, in particular religious and governmental institutions. Over the last twenty years, he has carried out fieldwork in Tibet, Ladakh, China, Northern India and Scotland. He is the author of Identity, Ritual and State in Tibetan Buddhism: The Foundations of Authority in Gelukpa Monasticism(Routledge 2003).

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