Société Européenne pour l'Etude des Civilisations de l'Himalaya et de l'Asie Centrale

Colloque : Interactions dans l’Himalaya et l’Asie centrale - Vienne 2013

25 27 Nov 2013

Third International SEECHAC Colloquium, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Interaction in the Himalayas and Central Asia: processes of transfer, translation and transformation in art, archaeology, religion and polity from antiquity to the present day

(1010 Wien, Dr.-Ignaz-Seipel Platz 2)

Programme

Day 1

Elise Luneau (Berlin): Transfers and interactions between North and South in Central Asia during the Bronze Age

Michael Alram (Vienna): Tapa Sardar (Afghanistan) – the numismatic evidence

Erdenebold Lkhagvasuren (Ulan Bator): The art gallery of Nomads: Mongolia – Kazakhstan

Jorinde Ebert (Vienna): “Homecoming into the mountains and emerging from the mountains“: A major theme in the Buddhist art of Kucha/Xinjiang

Tianshu Zhu (Macao): The standing Buddha images from Kucha – interaction between Khotan and Kucha in the seventh century

Ciro Lo Muzio (Rome) : Remarks on some Brahmanical deities in Buddhist Central Asian art

Guntram Hazod (Vienna): The Tibetan tumulus tradition: about new discoveries in Central Tibet

Gérard Fussman (Paris): How Gilgiti bronzes came to Tibet

David Pritzker (Oxford): The previously unknown golden ewer belonging to the Pritzker collection

Finbarr Barry Flood (New York): Transcultural elements in twelfth-century Himalayan art: A comparative perspective

20:00 Joint dinner of all speakers plus selected guests

Day 2

Frantz Grenet (Paris): The Sogdian element in the royal toreutics of Tibet: Boris Marshak’s contribution to the study of the Pritzker collection

Lewis Doney (Munich): Transforming Tibetan kingship

Birgit Kellner (Heidelberg): The Thon mi sambhoṭa complex – on the Indian origins of the Tibetan writing system

Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (London): Tibetan medicine from Dunhuang: notes on transmissions of medical knowledge along the Silk Road

Lying Kuo (Paris): Creation of a Pseudo-Indian Buddhist Tantra at Dunhuang in 9th-10th century

Quentin Devers (Paris): Charting ancient routes in Ladakh: an archaeological documentation

Diwakar Kumar Singh (New Delhi): Rituals, texts and transmission: mapping the space between Tibet and Nalanda

Pasang Wangdu (Lhasa): Reconstructing the history of the West Tibetan kingdom. A new discovery of historiographic manuscripts in Gu-ge Tho-ling

Hubert Feiglstorfer (Vienna): Reconstructing the early structure of the Khorchag monastery, Purang, Western Tibet

Nachiket Chanchani (Washington): Home and the world: Mâru-Gurjara architecture in the Central Himalayas

Amy Heller (London): Three ancient illuminated Tibetan manuscripts from the Tucci collection, IsIAO

Gudrun Melzer and Eva Allinger (Munich and Vienna): The early Tibetan cult of the book as reflected in early western Tibetan Prajñāpāramitā manuscripts

Christiane Kalantari (Vienna): Untying old knots – weaving new patterns. The regional styles of Khartse and Khorchag in the fabric of early Western Himalayan Buddhist art

19:00 Exhibition “The Countenance of the Other: The Coins of the Huns and Western Turks in Central Asia and India” (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien) (guided tour)

Day 3

Christian Luczanits (New York): Deities of translation and their variations in the Western Himalayas

Tsering Gyalpo (Lhasa): Buddhist art, religious landscape and ritual practice: explorations into the cultural heritage of Tsamda, Western Tibet

Marialaura Di Mattia (Rome): mNga'.ris – a cultural cross-road: about some "foreign" elements in art and architecture

Per K. Sørensen (Leipzig): Embodiment, karma and compassion institutionalised

Klaus-Dieter Mathes (Vienna): The Goddess Ama Yangri of Yol mo—local Himalayan beliefs and the High Religion of Tibetan Buddhism

Toni Huber (Berlin): Highland trans-border communities of the Eastern Himalayan-Tibetan plateau interface: state of the art of research and a constructive appraisal of future prospects

Marie Lecomte-Tilouine (Paris): Is there a network of holy, natural gas flames across the Himalayas and Central Asia?

Maria-Katharina Lang (Vienna): Moving artefacts: Mongolian Tsam figures in European museums

Ágnes Birtalan (Budapest): Text and image in the Himalayas and Inner Asia – the Mongolian case

Isabelle Charleux (Paris): On some numinous icons and their replicas in Mongol Buddhism

Oscar Nalesini (Rome): The Tucci Photographic Collection

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