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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 perspective20:00 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 art19:00 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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  Liste des participants au colloque de Vienne

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Lewis
  Doney (Munich): Transforming Tibetan kingship

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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

• Pascale Hugon (Vienna): The
  Tibetan appropriation of Indian Buddhist epistemology

• Lkhagvademchig
  Jadamba (Ulan Bator): The 10^th Jebstundamba:
  Collaborative project of Tibeto-Mongolian Buddhism

• 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Oscar Nalesini (Rome): The
  Tucci Photographic Collection

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

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

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

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

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

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