Constantine Lignos
@c0nstantine.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Columbia in Tibetan Buddhism | Studying tantric ritual dance (cham) | MA in Performance Studies from NYU | Big fan of Céline Dion | Dog dad | Fountain pen enthusiast | He/him | 🇬🇷🏳️🌈🇺🇸
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Dalai Lama says his successor will be born outside China in the ‘free world’
Dalai Lama says his successor will be born outside China in the ‘free world’
New book by spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism will raise the stakes in a dispute with Beijing over control of Tibet
The Dalai Lama’s successor will be born outside China, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism says in a new book, raising the stakes…
www.theguardian.com
March 11, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Dalai Lama says his successor will be born outside China in the ‘free world’
Teaching my first undergrad seminar today! A course I designed called “The Body and/in Performance: Dance & Drama in Tibet & China”. What tips do you have for me, #AcademicSky?
January 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Teaching my first undergrad seminar today! A course I designed called “The Body and/in Performance: Dance & Drama in Tibet & China”. What tips do you have for me, #AcademicSky?
To distract myself from the news yesterday, I posted a new draft translation on my blog! It is a short tantric dance manual by Candragomi, a 14th century Tibetan scholar from Shalu Monastery in Central Tibet, entitled “The Dancer’s Performance: Instructions on Dance.”
O Akephalos
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January 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
To distract myself from the news yesterday, I posted a new draft translation on my blog! It is a short tantric dance manual by Candragomi, a 14th century Tibetan scholar from Shalu Monastery in Central Tibet, entitled “The Dancer’s Performance: Instructions on Dance.”
Merry Christmas!
December 25, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Merry Christmas!
Saw the comparable Dina Martina sing several of her holiday substandards. Simply satisfactory!
November 30, 2024 at 2:44 AM
Saw the comparable Dina Martina sing several of her holiday substandards. Simply satisfactory!
Thrilled to report that Garbo’s Thanksgiving “outfit” was a hit! #dogsofbluesky
November 29, 2024 at 12:05 AM
Thrilled to report that Garbo’s Thanksgiving “outfit” was a hit! #dogsofbluesky
My Thanksgiving apple pie 🥧
November 27, 2024 at 11:47 PM
My Thanksgiving apple pie 🥧
Closed out #SBLAAR24 with some beach time before going back to frigid NYC. Enjoyed meeting everyone and getting to talk about Tibetan Buddhism, ritual, and performance! Until next year…
November 26, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Closed out #SBLAAR24 with some beach time before going back to frigid NYC. Enjoyed meeting everyone and getting to talk about Tibetan Buddhism, ritual, and performance! Until next year…
Between 1922 and 1940, Georges Bataille wrote a piece called “The Mask,” published only after his death in 1962. He argues that masks return civilized humanity to a dark and chaotic animality: “THE MASK IS CHAOS BECOME FLESH”. I translated it for a class a few years ago and posted it here:
The Mask
By Georges BatailleTranslated by Constantine Lignos Among the mysteries offered to each of us through a short life, the [mystery of] the presence of masks is perhaps the most loaded with confusion …
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November 20, 2024 at 2:19 PM
Between 1922 and 1940, Georges Bataille wrote a piece called “The Mask,” published only after his death in 1962. He argues that masks return civilized humanity to a dark and chaotic animality: “THE MASK IS CHAOS BECOME FLESH”. I translated it for a class a few years ago and posted it here:
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A theatrical still of Greta Garbo in the 1934 film The Painted Veil gazing upon a standing image of Guanyin.
Looking closely, we see Garbo’s hand touching the shoulder of Guanyin, a moment of contact between the "icons." /🧵
🗃️ #filmsky #GretaGarbo
Looking closely, we see Garbo’s hand touching the shoulder of Guanyin, a moment of contact between the "icons." /🧵
🗃️ #filmsky #GretaGarbo
November 19, 2024 at 3:47 PM
A theatrical still of Greta Garbo in the 1934 film The Painted Veil gazing upon a standing image of Guanyin.
Looking closely, we see Garbo’s hand touching the shoulder of Guanyin, a moment of contact between the "icons." /🧵
🗃️ #filmsky #GretaGarbo
Looking closely, we see Garbo’s hand touching the shoulder of Guanyin, a moment of contact between the "icons." /🧵
🗃️ #filmsky #GretaGarbo
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Sir Lady Java passed away on Saturday. She was a legendary drag performer in Los Angeles in the 1960s and, with the help of the ACLU, she filed one of the earliest lawsuits challenging crossdressing bans under the First Amendment after the LAPD shut down her show in 1967. She was 82.
Lady Java, Storied Entertainer and Trans Nightlife Legend, Has Died
Known as “Sir Lady Java,” the actress, singer, dancer, and comedian rose to prominence in the 1960s Los Angeles club scene, where she was the righteous challenger of a municipal “cross-dressing law.”
www.them.us
November 18, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Sir Lady Java passed away on Saturday. She was a legendary drag performer in Los Angeles in the 1960s and, with the help of the ACLU, she filed one of the earliest lawsuits challenging crossdressing bans under the First Amendment after the LAPD shut down her show in 1967. She was 82.
Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
1. History of tantric dance and embodied transmission of knowledge in the Himalaya
2. Buddhist influence in modern Greek lit
1. History of tantric dance and embodied transmission of knowledge in the Himalaya
2. Buddhist influence in modern Greek lit
Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
Here's mine:
1) a mini-monograph on heresy and magic.
2) the heretical corruption of scripture. (you can see it, right?)
Here's mine:
1) a mini-monograph on heresy and magic.
2) the heretical corruption of scripture. (you can see it, right?)
Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
Here's mine:
1) Turning the diss into a book on soldiers who reported atrocities
2) Air Force chaplains.
Here's mine:
1) Turning the diss into a book on soldiers who reported atrocities
2) Air Force chaplains.
November 18, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
1. History of tantric dance and embodied transmission of knowledge in the Himalaya
2. Buddhist influence in modern Greek lit
1. History of tantric dance and embodied transmission of knowledge in the Himalaya
2. Buddhist influence in modern Greek lit
Getting ready to present at #SBLAAR24 next weekend in San Diego! I’ll be talking about how embodiment within performative religious practices de-stabilizes the authority of text-centric frameworks of knowledge transmission. Panel name is “The Embodied Artist and the Artist as Text”. See you there!
November 17, 2024 at 1:39 PM
Getting ready to present at #SBLAAR24 next weekend in San Diego! I’ll be talking about how embodiment within performative religious practices de-stabilizes the authority of text-centric frameworks of knowledge transmission. Panel name is “The Embodied Artist and the Artist as Text”. See you there!
Garbo was so stunned by all of the attention her Thanksgiving outfit got that she is now insisting on wearing sunglasses on her walk so the paparazzi can’t hound her!
November 16, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Garbo was so stunned by all of the attention her Thanksgiving outfit got that she is now insisting on wearing sunglasses on her walk so the paparazzi can’t hound her!
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Not many of us yet, but here's a starter pack for Tibetan & Himalayan Studies. Give a shout if you'd like to be added or know of others who should be included.
go.bsky.app/QLFmW2S
go.bsky.app/QLFmW2S
November 11, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Not many of us yet, but here's a starter pack for Tibetan & Himalayan Studies. Give a shout if you'd like to be added or know of others who should be included.
go.bsky.app/QLFmW2S
go.bsky.app/QLFmW2S
Spent a while yesterday being confused about what Tyson chicken had to do with Netflix…
November 16, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Spent a while yesterday being confused about what Tyson chicken had to do with Netflix…
Trying on our outfit for Thanksgiving 🦃 #dogsofbluesky
November 15, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Trying on our outfit for Thanksgiving 🦃 #dogsofbluesky
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Well I'm fucked.
November 14, 2024 at 12:51 AM
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This makes me feel a certain…hmmmm 🫰🫰🫰….nausea.
November 13, 2024 at 5:57 PM
This makes me feel a certain…hmmmm 🫰🫰🫰….nausea.
Theatre kid here 🙋♂️👋 I heard this is where we’re supposed bring our ~theatre kid energy~ now
November 13, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Theatre kid here 🙋♂️👋 I heard this is where we’re supposed bring our ~theatre kid energy~ now
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Trump is a billionaire. Elon, the guy funding him and running his propaganda network is a billionaire man child.
Dems, I'm begging you, start demonizing billionaires like they do immigrants and trans people. We need a leftist populism that makes people hate the very concept of billionaires.
Dems, I'm begging you, start demonizing billionaires like they do immigrants and trans people. We need a leftist populism that makes people hate the very concept of billionaires.
November 13, 2024 at 2:51 AM
Trump is a billionaire. Elon, the guy funding him and running his propaganda network is a billionaire man child.
Dems, I'm begging you, start demonizing billionaires like they do immigrants and trans people. We need a leftist populism that makes people hate the very concept of billionaires.
Dems, I'm begging you, start demonizing billionaires like they do immigrants and trans people. We need a leftist populism that makes people hate the very concept of billionaires.