Geology and Geopolitics: Reincarnation and the Institution of the Dalai Lama

Asia Society Texas and the World Affairs Council of Greater Houston are pleased to welcome Lobsang Sangay, lecturer on law at Harvard Law School and former Sikyong of the Central Tibetan Administration, to speak about Tibetan Buddhist traditions becoming subject to political intervention and Chinese state regulation. Joined in conversation by Ronan O'Malley, chief program officer of the World Affairs Council of Greater Houston, they will discuss how Buddhist traditions across the Himalayan region, Central Asia, and the world are responding to overlapping pressures of religion, sovereignty, geopolitics, and resource competition.