Contemporary Visions in Tibetan Studies

Dotson, Brandon [u.a.] (Hrsg.):
Contemporary visions in Tibetan studies : proceedings of the First International Seminar of Young Tibetologists / ed. by Brandon Dotson, Kalsang Norbu Gurung, Georgios Halkias and Tim Myatt. - Chicago : Serindia Publications, 2009. - XII, 416 S. : Ill.
ISBN 978-1-932476-45-3
US$ 60,00
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Beschreibung
From the early 1980s onward, the field of Tibetan studies has been transformed by the opening of Tibet to foreign researchers. This has ushered in a new era of engagement with Tibet characterized by partnership between Tibetan scholars and their international colleagues, and by an increasing focus on the study of modern Tibet. Concomitant with this trend, the study of traditional Tibetan society and the imperative for cultural preservation has gained a newfound sense of urgency as the older generation of Tibetans, both in Tibet and in the Tibetan diaspora, began to pass away, taking their stories with them.
   This volume of essays, Contemporary Visions in Tibetan Studies, reflects in many ways a critical phase in the discipline of Tibetan studies. The contributions, from promising young scholars, both Tibetan and non-Tibetan from across the globe, are divided evenly between essays that engage with the various modernities of Tibet, China and the diaspora on the one hand, and more classically oriented studies of history, culture and religion on the other. Here Tibetan tradition is scrutinized from without and within, sometimes upheld and sometimes revised. Reflecting the growth of the field and its movement away from assertions of Tibetan exceptionalism and towards cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural projects, many of the essays are problem-oriented, and their enquiries take them outside of the confines of the Tibetan cultural area and towards engagement with the wider world. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
PART. 1. ENGAGEMENTS WITH MODERNITIES : TIBET, CHINA, AND DIASPORA
1. Incidental to Tibetan studies? : views from various margins / Chris Vasantkumar
2. In the land of checkpoints : Yartsa gunbu business in Golok 2007 : a preliminary report from the field / Emilia Róza Sułek
3. Fishery in southern and central Tibet : an economic niche is going to disappear / Diana Altner
4. Exploring the rush for "Himalayan gold" : Tibetan yartsa gunbu harvesting in northwest Yunnan and considerations for management / Michelle Olsgard Stewart
5. Tibetan refugees in India, or, How diaspora politics can be influenced by an omnipresent host country / Anne-Sophie Bentz
6. Adhering to tradition : maintaining the canon of Tibetan architecture in India / Joona Repo
7. Loss of memory and continuity of praxis in Rampur-Bashahr : an itinerant study of 17th-century Tibetan murals / Georgios T. Halkias
8. Tibetans in Taiwan : 1949/2006 / Tsering Choekyi
PART. 2. HISTORY, CULTURE, AND RELIGION
9. The Tibetan Gesar epic as oral literature / Solomon George FitzHerbert
10. A brief introduction to the era of the ten overlords / Beri Jigme Wangyal
11. The "nephew/uncle" relationship in the international diplomacy of the Tibetan empire (7th/9th centuries) / Brandon Dotson
12. An analysis of the origin of polo through the ancient relationship between Tibet and Persia / Tsering Dawa
13. The role of Confucius in Bon sources : Kong Tse and his attribution in the ritual of Three-Headed Black Man / Kalsang Norbu Gurung
14. Dating and authorship problems in the sNgags log sun 'byin attributed to Chag Lo tsā ba Chos rje dpal / Kadri Raudsepp
15. Elevating Tsongkhapa's disciples : Khedrup Jey and the Jey Yabsey Sum / Elijah Ary
16. 'Phreng po gter ston Shes rab 'od zer (1518/1584) on the eight lineages of attainment : research on a Ris med paradigm / Marc-Henri Deroch
17. Remarks on the state oracles and religious protectors of the dGa' ldan pho brang government / Dobis Tsering Gyal
18. Risk and social mobility : a study of the demotion and dismissal cases in the careers of the dGa' ldan pho brang officials from 1885 to 1952 / Alice Travers

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BRANDON DOTSON is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford. Profile page.

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