Contributions to Tibetan Studies 13. Wiesbaden, Dr. Reichert Verlag, 2021
This book is devoted to the study of the so-called “School of gTsang smyon,” that is to say the r... more This book is devoted to the study of the so-called “School of gTsang smyon,” that is to say the religious community that gathered around the Tibetan master gTsang smyon Heruka (1452–1507), the “madman of gTsang,” known as the compiler of the Life and Songs of Mi la ras pa. Examining a broad range of historical sources and reconstructing the religious and political context of the time, this work sheds light on the school’s history, arguing that it represented a movement of religious reform, and that gTsang smyon’s pupils had a pivotal role in promoting their teacher’s work and in broadening its scope. The school’s literary production appropriated figures of the past, the foremost being that of Mi la ras pa, to champion specific values and teachings that gradually gained a prominent place in the auto-representation of the bKa’ brgyud school. The book reconstructs the development of the religious group, focusing on some of the most influential and prolific figures among the master’s followers, and retracing its diffusion and influence in the Himalayan borderlands until the 18th century. Moreover, a detailed handlist includes the bibliographic description of over eighty printed editions realised by members of the school in the 16th century, thus providing the most comprehensive overview of this xylographic production to date, and gathering a substantial corpus for the study of Tibetan book history.
Vincent Tournier, Vincent Eltschinger, and Marta Sernesi (eds.). 2020. Archaeologies of the Written: Indian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies in Honour of Cristina Scherrer-Schaub. Naples: Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” (Series Minor, LXXXIX).
The present volume is a token of appreciation and admiration offered to Cristina Scherrer-Schaub,... more The present volume is a token of appreciation and admiration offered to Cristina Scherrer-Schaub, in recognition to her outstanding contributions to the fields of Buddhist and Indo-Tibetan Studies. The twenty-seven contributions gathered in this volume were authored by some of Cristina Scherrer-Schaub’s closest pupils and colleagues and adress various issues relevant to the political, religious, intellectual, and cultural histories of India, Tibet, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. Each article contributes in its own way to pointillistically map an Asian landscape familiar to the honorand, from Tepe Sardar to Candi Sewu and mTho lding, and from Abhinavagupta to the Prasannapadā. It is the editors’ hope that the diversity of the contributions assembled in this volume may succeed in partly mirroring Scherrer-Schaub’s broad intellectual horizon and her impact on many scholarly trajectories.
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.
[with Franz-Karl Ehrhard]. Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines 51 (Special issue Perspectives on Tibetan Culture: A Small Garland of Forget-me-nots Offered to Elena De Rossi Filibeck), 2019
Tibetan Manuscript and Xylograph Traditions The Written Word and Its Media within the Tibetan Culture Sphere, ed. by O. Almogi. Hamburg, Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies University of Hamburg, pp. 267–320, 2016
Text 1359 of the Tucci Tibetan Collection (IsIAO) is a manual on the Six Yogas of Nāropa titled d... more Text 1359 of the Tucci Tibetan Collection (IsIAO) is a manual on the Six Yogas of Nāropa titled dPal na ro'i chos drug gi khrid yig bde chen gsal ba'i 'od zer stong ldan, authored by the abbot of gDan sa mthil, sPyan snga bSod nams rgyal mtshan dpal bzang po (1386–1434). It is a blockprint of 168 folios decorated by 80 beautiful illustrations on the margins, which offers a picture of a unique moment in the political and religious history of Central Tibet. This paper situates the work within the author's oeuvre, and attempts a reconstruction of the context of production of the blockprint. It argues that the latter was prepared in the first half of the 15th century, as part of a wider production of texts and art objects, under the auspices of the Phag mo gru ruling family, the lHa gzigs Rlangs, to which the author belonged.
Contributions to Tibetan Studies 13. Wiesbaden, Dr. Reichert Verlag, 2021
This book is devoted to the study of the so-called “School of gTsang smyon,” that is to say the r... more This book is devoted to the study of the so-called “School of gTsang smyon,” that is to say the religious community that gathered around the Tibetan master gTsang smyon Heruka (1452–1507), the “madman of gTsang,” known as the compiler of the Life and Songs of Mi la ras pa. Examining a broad range of historical sources and reconstructing the religious and political context of the time, this work sheds light on the school’s history, arguing that it represented a movement of religious reform, and that gTsang smyon’s pupils had a pivotal role in promoting their teacher’s work and in broadening its scope. The school’s literary production appropriated figures of the past, the foremost being that of Mi la ras pa, to champion specific values and teachings that gradually gained a prominent place in the auto-representation of the bKa’ brgyud school. The book reconstructs the development of the religious group, focusing on some of the most influential and prolific figures among the master’s followers, and retracing its diffusion and influence in the Himalayan borderlands until the 18th century. Moreover, a detailed handlist includes the bibliographic description of over eighty printed editions realised by members of the school in the 16th century, thus providing the most comprehensive overview of this xylographic production to date, and gathering a substantial corpus for the study of Tibetan book history.
Vincent Tournier, Vincent Eltschinger, and Marta Sernesi (eds.). 2020. Archaeologies of the Written: Indian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies in Honour of Cristina Scherrer-Schaub. Naples: Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” (Series Minor, LXXXIX).
The present volume is a token of appreciation and admiration offered to Cristina Scherrer-Schaub,... more The present volume is a token of appreciation and admiration offered to Cristina Scherrer-Schaub, in recognition to her outstanding contributions to the fields of Buddhist and Indo-Tibetan Studies. The twenty-seven contributions gathered in this volume were authored by some of Cristina Scherrer-Schaub’s closest pupils and colleagues and adress various issues relevant to the political, religious, intellectual, and cultural histories of India, Tibet, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. Each article contributes in its own way to pointillistically map an Asian landscape familiar to the honorand, from Tepe Sardar to Candi Sewu and mTho lding, and from Abhinavagupta to the Prasannapadā. It is the editors’ hope that the diversity of the contributions assembled in this volume may succeed in partly mirroring Scherrer-Schaub’s broad intellectual horizon and her impact on many scholarly trajectories.
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.
[with Franz-Karl Ehrhard]. Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines 51 (Special issue Perspectives on Tibetan Culture: A Small Garland of Forget-me-nots Offered to Elena De Rossi Filibeck), 2019
Tibetan Manuscript and Xylograph Traditions The Written Word and Its Media within the Tibetan Culture Sphere, ed. by O. Almogi. Hamburg, Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies University of Hamburg, pp. 267–320, 2016
Text 1359 of the Tucci Tibetan Collection (IsIAO) is a manual on the Six Yogas of Nāropa titled d... more Text 1359 of the Tucci Tibetan Collection (IsIAO) is a manual on the Six Yogas of Nāropa titled dPal na ro'i chos drug gi khrid yig bde chen gsal ba'i 'od zer stong ldan, authored by the abbot of gDan sa mthil, sPyan snga bSod nams rgyal mtshan dpal bzang po (1386–1434). It is a blockprint of 168 folios decorated by 80 beautiful illustrations on the margins, which offers a picture of a unique moment in the political and religious history of Central Tibet. This paper situates the work within the author's oeuvre, and attempts a reconstruction of the context of production of the blockprint. It argues that the latter was prepared in the first half of the 15th century, as part of a wider production of texts and art objects, under the auspices of the Phag mo gru ruling family, the lHa gzigs Rlangs, to which the author belonged.
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