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
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