South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI) Lecture Series 2025
Dr. Tyler Lehrer | Friendship, Danger, and the Dutch Company: Buddhist Maritime Diplomacy in the 18th C. Bay of Bengal
Event Details
Date
Monday, June 23, 2025
Time
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Location
Description
Dr. Lehrer’s talk explores 18th-century Buddhist diplomacy ac ross the Indian Ocean, tracing how Kandyan envoys and Ayutthayan monks journeyed aboard Dutch ships in search of religious renewal. Through storms, shipwre cks, and diplomacy, he revealshow sac red travel was de eply perilous, transactional, and shaped by political and moral entanglements.
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-262-4884 or email info@southasia.wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Reasonable effort will be made to support your request.