This repository contains a JSON version of the data powering the Visual Dictionary of Tibetan Ver... more This repository contains a JSON version of the data powering the Visual Dictionary of Tibetan Verb Valency together with its documentation. The structure of the data is explained in the documentation section on 'Dictionary data'. The Visual Dictionary of Tibetan Verb Valency was produced as part of the UKRI-funded project Lexicography in Motion a History of the Tibetan Verb (LIM) at SOAS.
From the fourteenth century onwards the treasure-tradition of Tibetan Buddhism (gter ma) played a... more From the fourteenth century onwards the treasure-tradition of Tibetan Buddhism (gter ma) played a significant role in the small south-western Tibetan kingdom of Mang-yul Gung-thang. The treasure-discoverer (gter ston) Rig-’dzin rGod-ldem-can (1337–1408) defined both the religious and political environment with his activities, e.g. through disclosing treasure-texts in the dominion and transmitting them directly to it’s rulers, and, more particularly, through designating the region as one of the famed hidden valleys (sbas yul), i.e. sKyid-mo-lung. The treasure-discoverers who were to come after him, i.e. most prominently Rig-’dzin mChog-ldan mgon-po (1497–1531) and Rig-’dzin bsTan-gnyis gling-pa (1480–1536), carried on rGod-ldem-can’s activities. It becomes clear that all of them effectively transcended the mere religious sphere and directly affected the political landscape through processes of legitimation and a calculated construction of prestige for themselves and the rulers of the...
Unearthing Himalayan Treasures Festschrift for Franz-Karl Ehrhard, Indica et Tibetica Verlag (59), Marburg, 2019
The Festschrift celebrates Franz-Karl Ehrhard, Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the L... more The Festschrift celebrates Franz-Karl Ehrhard, Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich from 2003 to 2019. Offered on the occasion of his 65th birthday, it comprises 26 papers by friends and colleagues to honour his outstanding and far-reaching contributions to the field of Tibetan Studies. Mirroring Franz-Karl Ehrhard's research interests, the papers centre on the religious and literary traditions of Tibet and the Himalayas, including sacred geography, religious history, philosophy, and studies in textual production and transmission.
Despite considerable recent progress, the creation of well-balanced and diverse resources remains... more Despite considerable recent progress, the creation of well-balanced and diverse resources remains a time-consuming and costly challenge in Argument Mining. Active Learning reduces the amount of data necessary for the training of machine learning models by querying the most informative samples for annotation and therefore is a promising method for resource creation. In a large scale comparison of several Active Learning methods, we show that Active Learning considerably decreases the effort necessary to get good deep learning performance on the task of Argument Unit Recognition and Classification (AURC).
Unearthing Himalayan Treasures. Festschrift for Franz-Karl Ehrhard, edited by Volker Caumanns, Marta Sernesi, and Nikolai Solmsdorf. Indica et Tibetica 59. Marburg: Indica et Tibetica Verlag, 2019
Saddharmāmṛtam. Festschrift für Jens-Uwe Hartmann zum 65. Geburtstag. Herausgegeben von Oliver von Criegern, Gudrun Melzer und Johannes Schneider. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde, 93. Wien: Arbeitskreis für tibetische und buddhistische Studien, 2018
From the fourteenth century onwards the treasure-tradition of Tibetan Buddhism (gter ma) played a... more From the fourteenth century onwards the treasure-tradition of Tibetan Buddhism (gter ma) played a significant role in the small south-western Tibetan kingdom of Mang-yul Gung-thang. The treasure-discoverer (gter ston) Rig-’dzin rGod-ldem-can (1337–1408) defined both the religious and political environment with his activities, e.g. through disclosing treasure-texts in the dominion and transmitting them directly to it’s rulers, and, more particularly, through designating the region as one of the famed hidden valleys (sbas yul), i.e. sKyid-mo-lung. The treasure-discoverers who were to come after him, i.e. most prominently Rig-’dzin mChog-ldan mgon-po (1497–1531) and Rig-’dzin bsTan-gnyis gling-pa (1480–1536), carried on rGod-ldem-can’s activities. It becomes clear that all of them effectively transcended the mere religious sphere and directly affected the political landscape through processes of legitimation and a calculated construction of prestige for themselves and the rulers of the kingdom. After the fall of the kingdom through the installment of the central Tibetan government led by the Fifth Dalai Lama, Ngag-dbang Blo-bzang rgya-mtsho (1617–1682), it was the treasure-discoverer Rig-’dzin Gar-dbang rdo-rje (1640–1685) who perpetuated these dynamics that had been established by his predecessors.
The book focusses on Gar-dbang rdo-rje’s “outer biography” (phyi’i rnam thar). It opens up with a general introduction to the gTer-ma tradition and it’s role in Mang-yul Gung-thang, delineated by an overview of the lives of the afore-mentioned treasure-discoverers. The main part is made up of a full and annotated translation of Gar-dbang rdo-rje’s biography, which is followed by a critical edition of the Tibetan text. A catalog of all extant works of Gar-dbang rdo-rje rounds off the main part. The book concludes with an appendix presenting the life of ’Chi-med ’od-zer (1574–1661), a proponent of the mDo-chen bka’-brgyud-pa tradition, through a summary and a diplomatic text edition of his to date unpublished biography. Through this study not only the life and works of one hitherto relatively unknown treasure-discoverer, i.e. Rig-’dzin Gar-dbang rdo-rje, are presented. Furthermore, we gain insight into the otherwise poorly documented historical milieu he was living in, i.e. Mang-yul Gung-thang in the second half of the seventeenth century, and it’s defining religious tradition, i.e. a fusion of bKa’-brgyud and rNying-ma teachings (bka’ rnying).
Unearthing Himalayan Treasures Festschrift for Franz-Karl Ehrhard, Indica et Tibetica Verlag (59), Marburg, 2019
The Festschrift celebrates Franz-Karl Ehrhard, Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the L... more The Festschrift celebrates Franz-Karl Ehrhard, Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich from 2003 to 2019. Offered on the occasion of his 65th birthday, it comprises 26 papers by friends and colleagues to honour his outstanding and far-reaching contributions to the field of Tibetan Studies. Mirroring Franz-Karl Ehrhard's research interests, the papers centre on the religious and literary traditions of Tibet and the Himalayas, including sacred geography, religious history, philosophy, and studies in textual production and transmission.
This repository contains a JSON version of the data powering the Visual Dictionary of Tibetan Ver... more This repository contains a JSON version of the data powering the Visual Dictionary of Tibetan Verb Valency together with its documentation. The structure of the data is explained in the documentation section on 'Dictionary data'. The Visual Dictionary of Tibetan Verb Valency was produced as part of the UKRI-funded project Lexicography in Motion a History of the Tibetan Verb (LIM) at SOAS.
From the fourteenth century onwards the treasure-tradition of Tibetan Buddhism (gter ma) played a... more From the fourteenth century onwards the treasure-tradition of Tibetan Buddhism (gter ma) played a significant role in the small south-western Tibetan kingdom of Mang-yul Gung-thang. The treasure-discoverer (gter ston) Rig-’dzin rGod-ldem-can (1337–1408) defined both the religious and political environment with his activities, e.g. through disclosing treasure-texts in the dominion and transmitting them directly to it’s rulers, and, more particularly, through designating the region as one of the famed hidden valleys (sbas yul), i.e. sKyid-mo-lung. The treasure-discoverers who were to come after him, i.e. most prominently Rig-’dzin mChog-ldan mgon-po (1497–1531) and Rig-’dzin bsTan-gnyis gling-pa (1480–1536), carried on rGod-ldem-can’s activities. It becomes clear that all of them effectively transcended the mere religious sphere and directly affected the political landscape through processes of legitimation and a calculated construction of prestige for themselves and the rulers of the...
Unearthing Himalayan Treasures Festschrift for Franz-Karl Ehrhard, Indica et Tibetica Verlag (59), Marburg, 2019
The Festschrift celebrates Franz-Karl Ehrhard, Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the L... more The Festschrift celebrates Franz-Karl Ehrhard, Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich from 2003 to 2019. Offered on the occasion of his 65th birthday, it comprises 26 papers by friends and colleagues to honour his outstanding and far-reaching contributions to the field of Tibetan Studies. Mirroring Franz-Karl Ehrhard's research interests, the papers centre on the religious and literary traditions of Tibet and the Himalayas, including sacred geography, religious history, philosophy, and studies in textual production and transmission.
Despite considerable recent progress, the creation of well-balanced and diverse resources remains... more Despite considerable recent progress, the creation of well-balanced and diverse resources remains a time-consuming and costly challenge in Argument Mining. Active Learning reduces the amount of data necessary for the training of machine learning models by querying the most informative samples for annotation and therefore is a promising method for resource creation. In a large scale comparison of several Active Learning methods, we show that Active Learning considerably decreases the effort necessary to get good deep learning performance on the task of Argument Unit Recognition and Classification (AURC).
Unearthing Himalayan Treasures. Festschrift for Franz-Karl Ehrhard, edited by Volker Caumanns, Marta Sernesi, and Nikolai Solmsdorf. Indica et Tibetica 59. Marburg: Indica et Tibetica Verlag, 2019
Saddharmāmṛtam. Festschrift für Jens-Uwe Hartmann zum 65. Geburtstag. Herausgegeben von Oliver von Criegern, Gudrun Melzer und Johannes Schneider. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde, 93. Wien: Arbeitskreis für tibetische und buddhistische Studien, 2018
From the fourteenth century onwards the treasure-tradition of Tibetan Buddhism (gter ma) played a... more From the fourteenth century onwards the treasure-tradition of Tibetan Buddhism (gter ma) played a significant role in the small south-western Tibetan kingdom of Mang-yul Gung-thang. The treasure-discoverer (gter ston) Rig-’dzin rGod-ldem-can (1337–1408) defined both the religious and political environment with his activities, e.g. through disclosing treasure-texts in the dominion and transmitting them directly to it’s rulers, and, more particularly, through designating the region as one of the famed hidden valleys (sbas yul), i.e. sKyid-mo-lung. The treasure-discoverers who were to come after him, i.e. most prominently Rig-’dzin mChog-ldan mgon-po (1497–1531) and Rig-’dzin bsTan-gnyis gling-pa (1480–1536), carried on rGod-ldem-can’s activities. It becomes clear that all of them effectively transcended the mere religious sphere and directly affected the political landscape through processes of legitimation and a calculated construction of prestige for themselves and the rulers of the kingdom. After the fall of the kingdom through the installment of the central Tibetan government led by the Fifth Dalai Lama, Ngag-dbang Blo-bzang rgya-mtsho (1617–1682), it was the treasure-discoverer Rig-’dzin Gar-dbang rdo-rje (1640–1685) who perpetuated these dynamics that had been established by his predecessors.
The book focusses on Gar-dbang rdo-rje’s “outer biography” (phyi’i rnam thar). It opens up with a general introduction to the gTer-ma tradition and it’s role in Mang-yul Gung-thang, delineated by an overview of the lives of the afore-mentioned treasure-discoverers. The main part is made up of a full and annotated translation of Gar-dbang rdo-rje’s biography, which is followed by a critical edition of the Tibetan text. A catalog of all extant works of Gar-dbang rdo-rje rounds off the main part. The book concludes with an appendix presenting the life of ’Chi-med ’od-zer (1574–1661), a proponent of the mDo-chen bka’-brgyud-pa tradition, through a summary and a diplomatic text edition of his to date unpublished biography. Through this study not only the life and works of one hitherto relatively unknown treasure-discoverer, i.e. Rig-’dzin Gar-dbang rdo-rje, are presented. Furthermore, we gain insight into the otherwise poorly documented historical milieu he was living in, i.e. Mang-yul Gung-thang in the second half of the seventeenth century, and it’s defining religious tradition, i.e. a fusion of bKa’-brgyud and rNying-ma teachings (bka’ rnying).
Unearthing Himalayan Treasures Festschrift for Franz-Karl Ehrhard, Indica et Tibetica Verlag (59), Marburg, 2019
The Festschrift celebrates Franz-Karl Ehrhard, Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the L... more The Festschrift celebrates Franz-Karl Ehrhard, Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich from 2003 to 2019. Offered on the occasion of his 65th birthday, it comprises 26 papers by friends and colleagues to honour his outstanding and far-reaching contributions to the field of Tibetan Studies. Mirroring Franz-Karl Ehrhard's research interests, the papers centre on the religious and literary traditions of Tibet and the Himalayas, including sacred geography, religious history, philosophy, and studies in textual production and transmission.
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The book focusses on Gar-dbang rdo-rje’s “outer biography” (phyi’i rnam thar). It opens up with a general introduction to the gTer-ma tradition and it’s role in Mang-yul Gung-thang, delineated by an overview of the lives of the afore-mentioned treasure-discoverers. The main part is made up of a full and annotated translation of Gar-dbang rdo-rje’s biography, which is followed by a critical edition of the Tibetan text. A catalog of all extant works of Gar-dbang rdo-rje rounds off the main part. The book concludes with an appendix presenting the life of ’Chi-med ’od-zer (1574–1661), a proponent of the mDo-chen bka’-brgyud-pa tradition, through a summary and a diplomatic text edition of his to date unpublished biography. Through this study not only the life and works of one hitherto relatively unknown treasure-discoverer, i.e. Rig-’dzin Gar-dbang rdo-rje, are presented. Furthermore, we gain insight into the otherwise poorly documented historical milieu he was living in, i.e. Mang-yul Gung-thang in the second half of the seventeenth century, and it’s defining religious tradition, i.e. a fusion of bKa’-brgyud and rNying-ma teachings (bka’ rnying).
The book focusses on Gar-dbang rdo-rje’s “outer biography” (phyi’i rnam thar). It opens up with a general introduction to the gTer-ma tradition and it’s role in Mang-yul Gung-thang, delineated by an overview of the lives of the afore-mentioned treasure-discoverers. The main part is made up of a full and annotated translation of Gar-dbang rdo-rje’s biography, which is followed by a critical edition of the Tibetan text. A catalog of all extant works of Gar-dbang rdo-rje rounds off the main part. The book concludes with an appendix presenting the life of ’Chi-med ’od-zer (1574–1661), a proponent of the mDo-chen bka’-brgyud-pa tradition, through a summary and a diplomatic text edition of his to date unpublished biography. Through this study not only the life and works of one hitherto relatively unknown treasure-discoverer, i.e. Rig-’dzin Gar-dbang rdo-rje, are presented. Furthermore, we gain insight into the otherwise poorly documented historical milieu he was living in, i.e. Mang-yul Gung-thang in the second half of the seventeenth century, and it’s defining religious tradition, i.e. a fusion of bKa’-brgyud and rNying-ma teachings (bka’ rnying).