The Image as Instrument and as Reflection of Ritual in Central Asia and the Himalaya: from Antiquity to the Present
5-7 Novembre 2018
Basilica di SanDomenico Maggiore, Sala del Capitolo, Napoli
Admission free
UNIOR
Università di Napoli « L’Orientale »
Dipartimento Asia, Africa e Mediterrano
SEECHAC
Société Européenne pour l’Etude des Civilisations de l’Himalaya et de l’Asie Centrale
ISMEO
Associazione Internationale di Studi sul Mediterraneo e l’Oriente
Centro Studi sul Buddhismo, UNIOR
Centro Studi su Asia Centrale Tibet Iran, DAAM
This conference has been made possible thanks to the MIUR project
“Studi e ricerche sulle culture dell’Asia e dell’Africa: tradizione e
continuità , rivitalizzazione e divulgazione”
PROGRAMME
Monday 5 November
9h00–9h30 Welcome and Introduction
Elda Morlicchio, Rector of the UNIOR
Adriano Rossi, President of ISMEO
Michele Bernardini, Director of DAAM
Charles Ramble, President of SEECHAC
9h30–10h00 Special presentation
Massimiliano Alessandro Polichetti:
Preserving images for a diplomacy of
culture. The mission of the new Museo delle
Civiltà – Museo d’Arte Orientale
‘Giuseppe Tucci’.
Morning Chair: Gilles Béguin
10h00–10h30 Brigitte Steinmann:
Creating and Dissolving Images: Tensions
and Paradox in the Nepalese Tamang
Buddhist Iconography and Life, between
Recreations, Representations and
Dissolution of Invisible Worlds and Beings
10h30–11h00 Cristiana Turini, Valentina
Punzi: Assessing Continuities in the
Representations of the Ubiquitous Spirits in
Naxi and Tibetan Religions
11h00–11h30 Tea/Coffee
11h30–12h00 Anna Filigenzi: Kings,
Families, Children and Monks: A
Taxonomic Enquiry into the Ritualised
Celebration of Patronage in the Buddhist
Art of Afghanistan
12h00–12h30 Olaf Czaja: Putting
Enlightenment on Display: The Tradition of
Giant Textile Thangkas and their Ritual
Functions in Tibet
12h30–14h00 Lunch
Afternoon Chair: Giacomella Orofino
14h00–14h30 Hubert Feiglstorfer:
Defining a Centre and the Role of ‘the
Space Around’ with a Focus on Western
Himalayan Spatial Concepts
14h30–15h00 Gerald Kozicz: Form, Space
and Image: Notes on the Function of the
Early Stupas of Alchi
15h00–15h30 Mohammad Ajmal Shah:
Kushan Terracotta Tiles in Kashmir
Himalaya – A Central Asian Element
15h30–16h00 Tea/Coffee
16h00–16h30 David Andolfatto: The
Tradition of Temples’ Ornamentation in
West Nepal: Images, Semantic and Ritual
Context in the Karnali Region, from the
12th Century to the Present
16h30–17h00 Charles Ramble:
Illustrations, Diagrams and Doodles: The
Function of Visual Imagery in a RecentlyDiscovered
Collection of Bonpo
Manuscripts in Mustang, Nepal
Tuesday 6 November
Morning Chair: Monika Zin
9h30–10h00 Ciro Lo Muzio: Some
Remarks on a Buddhist Rock Painting in
Baltistan
10h00–10h30: Michele Bernardini,
Roberta Giunta: From Image to Writing:
from Ghazni to Samarqand
10h30–11h00 Bruno Genito: The Elusive
Frontiers of the Eurasian Steppes. Iran,
Central Asia and China. Historical
Sogdiana, Silk Roads and Transmission of
Images
11h00–11h30 Tea/Coffee
11h30–12h00 Cecilia Dal Zovo: Rock art,
Cyclical Returns and Rituality in the
Mongolian Altai Mountains
12h00–12h30 Judit Béres and Rita
Kuzder: La btsas Ritual and Elements of
the Offering: The Cult of a Local Deity, Me
stag dgra ‘joms in Amdo
12h30–14h00 Lunch
Afternoon Chair: Anne Vergati
14h00–14h30: Zsuzsa Majer: On a Text of
Mantra Recitation and Sādhana of
Avalokiteåa Based on the Soyombo
Symbol, Written by Öndör Gegeen
Zanabazar, the First Head of Mongolian
Buddhism
14h30–15h00
Filippo Lunardo: Offering and Devotion:
The Concept of mChod pa in the
Iconographies of the Bla ma mChod pa
tshogs zhings in the dGe lugs pa Buddhist
Tradition of Tibet
15h30–16h00 Tea/Coffee
16h00–16h30
Richard Widdess: Images of Instruments:
Representations of Ritual Music
Performance in the Kathmandu Valley
16h30–17h00
Alexander v. Rospatt: The Use
and Function of Icons in Nepalese Old Age
Rituals
Wednesday 7 November
Morning Chair: Michele Bernardini
9h30–10h00 Astrid Klein: Masked and
Dressed up People in Ritual Scenes on the
Reliquaries of KucÌŒa
10h00–10h30
Mariachiara Gasparini:
“Unportraited” Zoomorphism in the Socalled
Sasanian Textiles
10h30–11h00 Monika Zin: The
“Parinirvāṇa Space” in Kucha
11h00–11h30 Tea/Coffee
11h30–12h00 Nobuyoshi Yamabe: An
Examination through Infrared Photography
of a Dunhuang Buddhist Painting (EO
3580) Stored at the Musée Guimet
12h00–12h30 Costantino Moretti: Scenes
of Damnation in Mogao Ritual Paintings
12h30–14h00 Lunch
Afternoon Session Chair: Anna Filigenzi
14h00–14h30 Pascale Dollfus: Judgment
of the Dead and Punishment of the
Damned: Images from Spiti (Western
Indian Himalayas)
14h30–15h00 Marialaura Di Mattia: How
the Concern about Death changed the Life
of Tibetans: Some Considerations upon the
Religious and Political Impact of the
Sarvadurgatipariśodhana
tantra
15h00–16h00 Discussion and business
meeting