Conférence par Rachael M. Griffiths (EPHE)
le jeudi 13 novembre 2025, 18h-19h30
à la Maison de la recherche de l’Inalco (2, rue de Lille, 75007 Paris), en salle LO.01
et via Zoom ( shorturl.at/kmvO1 )
***Veillez noter que la conférence se tiendra exceptionnellement à la Maison de la recherche de l’Inalco, située au 2, rue de Lille, 75007 Paris, et non dans le 13e arrondissement au Pôle des langues et civilisations de l’Inalco, où nos événements ont lieu habituellement.***
Résumé:
In 2005, a large corpus of manuscripts was discovered in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands constituting the ritual repertoire of the Leyu (le’u) priests. Preliminary investigations suggest these texts contain non-Buddhist rituals and narratives resembling early sources from Dunhuang. This collection of approximately 100,000 manuscript pages forms the corpus currently investigated by the PaganTibet project, offering an unprecedented opportunity to reconstruct pre-Buddhist Tibetan religious traditions. This talk examines how the PaganTibet project employs digital humanities approaches, particularly handwritten text recognition (HTR) and natural language processing (NLP) methods, to enable deeper textual analysis.
Rachael M. Griffiths is a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC-funded project PaganTibet at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, PSL. She received her MPhil and PhD from the University of Oxford, with research interests including Tibetan life writing and pilgrimage.