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Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia: The Chile and the Bears Are My Uncles
Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia: The Chile and the Bears Are My Uncles: Buddhist Interspecies Relations in and Beyond West Sikkim
February 10, 2022
Buddhism and Posthumanism series
The red, round chiles known as Akubari in the Bhutia language and Dalle khorsani in Nepali in the eastern Himalayas have recently become popular commodities across India. In places where it is grown in Buddhist communities in west Sikkim, Akubari is part of the multispecies networks of relations, as evidenced by its name, which translates as “Uncle Blazing.” Akubari is a grown from the land and seen as a family member that provides nourishment, sustenance, healing, and flavour for human and nonhuman co-residents in the region. What happens when these kin become commercially produced and commodified? How does this change the relations forged and supported by kin? Dorjee Bhutia draws on ethnographic research from west Sikkim, local medical and folklore traditions, textual research into Buddhist and indigenous ritual texts and colonial sources, and market research to consider these questions.
Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia is a Visiting Scholar in the Asian Studies Program at the University of California Riverside.
This event is co-sponsored by the Religion in the Public Sphere initiative of the Department for the Study of Religion in the University of Toronto. The series is organized by Rory Lindsay, Assistant Professor, and Frances Garrett, Associate Professor of Buddhist Studies in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto.
Event series organized by Rory Lindsay and Frances Garrett
Video edited by Ezra Li
Contents
0:00 Introduction
5:46 Kalzang's introduction
14:00 Akubari's movement beyond the gardens of Sikkim
20:17 Cultural relationships to Sikkim's forests
34:43 Akubari human and non-human relations
42:32 Akubari's contemporary popularity
50:32 Q&A - Blue whistling thrush as a community member
57:22 Q&A - Can akubari influence meditation practice?
1:03:19 Q&A - the social context of "aku"; respect and fear
1:19:15 Q&A - Lessons of interspecies relatedness from bears in Sikkim
1:26:00 Concluding remarks
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