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Tibetology

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Study of things related to Tibet

Tibetology (Tibetan:བོད་རིག་པ།,Wylie:bod-rig-pa) refers to the study of things related toTibet, including itshistory,religion,language,culture,politics and the collection of Tibetan articles of historical, cultural and religious significance.[1] The last may mean a collection of Tibetan statues, shrines, Buddhist icons and holy scripts,Thangka embroideries, paintings and tapestries, jewellery, masks and other objects of fineTibetan art and craftsmanship.[2][3]

History

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AThanka painting inside theNamgyal Institute of Tibetology, inGangtok

TheJesuitAntonio de Andrade (1580–1634) and a few others established a small mission and church inTsaparang (1626), in the kingdom ofGuge (Western Tibet) in the17th century. When the kingdom was overrun by the king ofLadakh (1631), the mission was destroyed.[4]

A century later another Jesuit, theItalianIppolito Desideri (1684–1733) was sent to Tibet and received permission to stay inLhasa where he spent 5 years (1716–1721) living in a Tibetan monastery, studying the language, the religion of thelamas and other Tibetan customs.[5] He published a couple of books in Tibetan onChristian doctrine. Because of a conflict of jurisdiction (the mission was entrusted to theCapuchins, and not to theJesuits) Desideri had to leave Tibet and returned to Italy, where he spent the rest of his life publishing hisHistorical notes on Tibet. They were collected, in 4 volumes, under the title ofOpere Tibetane (Rome;1981–1989). Desideri may be considered as the first Tibetologist and he did much to make Tibet known in Europe.[6]

Desideri was however a pioneer, and as such what he produced were rather 'observations' on Tibet, a work he did with objectivity and sympathy, but not always perfect accuracy. The inception of Tibetology as an authentic academic discipline is thus associated with the HungarianSándor Kőrösi Csoma (1784–1842) who is considered as its founder to present day,[7] the other early Tibetologists of note beingPhilippe Édouard Foucaux who in 1842 occupied the first chair for Tibetan studies in Europe[a] andIsaac Jacob Schmidt, who was primarily the pioneeringmongolist residing in Saint Petersburg.[8]

The publications of the British diplomatCharles Alfred Bell contributed towards the establishment of Tibetology as an academic discipline. As outstanding Tibetologists of the 20th century the BritishFrederick William Thomas,David Snellgrove,Michael Aris, andRichard Keith Sprigg, the ItaliansGiuseppe Tucci andLuciano Petech, the FrenchmenJacques Bacot andRolf Alfred Stein, the DutchmanJohan van Manen, and finally the GermansDieter Schuh and Klaus Sagaster, may be mentioned.[9]

In recent decades, particularly in English-speaking countries, the study of Tibet and Tibetology has opened out towards other disciplines, prompting works with an interdisciplinary approach. This has become most obvious in the regular conferences of the IATS (International Association of Tibetan Studies), held at intervals of three years in different cities around the world. Examples of such broader-based research include the work of the American anthropologistMelvyn Goldstein, among others, who has produced publications on subjects such as lexical questions, Tibetan nomadism, and the modern history of Tibet. Other recent research includes the work ofRobert Barnett,Matthew Kapstein,Elliot Sperling, Alex McKay, Geoffrey Samuel, Flavio Geisshuesler, among others.[10]

Gallery

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  • Professor Turrell Wylie in 1979 at the University of Washington Department of Asian Languages and Literature
    Professor Turrell Wylie in 1979 at the University of Washington Department of Asian Languages and Literature
  • David Germano in 2013
  • Giuseppe Tucci (1894-1984) Italian Tibetologist drinking butter tea in Tibet in the 1930s
    Giuseppe Tucci (1894-1984) Italian Tibetologist drinking butter tea in Tibet in the 1930s
  • Elliot Sperling 2014
  • Shakabpa on the Tibetan Passport 1947 issued to Wangchuk Deden Shakabpa (Tibetan: ཞྭ་སྒབ་པ་དབང་ཕྱུག་བདེ་ལྡན།), then "Chief of the Finance Department of the Government of Tibet"[11][12][13]
    Shakabpa on the Tibetan Passport 1947 issued to Wangchuk Deden Shakabpa (Tibetan: ཞྭ་སྒབ་པ་དབང་ཕྱུག་བདེ་ལྡན།), then "Chief of the Finance Department of the Government of Tibet"[11][12][13]
  • Sir Charles Alfred Bell, Author of the "Biography of the Dalai Lama" about the 13th Dalai Lama
    Sir Charles Alfred Bell, Author of the "Biography of the Dalai Lama" about the 13th Dalai Lama
  • Sándor Kőrösi Csoma authored the first Tibetan-English dictionary
    Sándor Kőrösi Csoma authored the first Tibetan-English dictionary
  • Hugh Richardson in Tibet about 1940
    Hugh Richardson in Tibet about 1940
  • The Jesuit priest, Antonio de Andrade, born 1580, died 1634 was the first known European to have visited Tibet
    The Jesuit priest, Antonio de Andrade, born 1580, died 1634 was the first known European to have visited Tibet

See also

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References

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Notes

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  1. ^At the school of Oriental Studies in Paris. See:Le Calloc'h, Bernard. "Philippe-Edouard Foucaux: First Tibetan teacher in Europe." Tibet Journal 12.1 (1987): 39-49.

Citations

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  1. ^Dotson, B. (2009).Contemporary Visions in Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the First International Seminar of Young Tibetologists. Serindia Publications.ISBN 978-1-932476-45-3. Retrieved2024-03-11.
  2. ^Shih, C.; Chen, Y.W. (2018).Tibetan Studies in Comparative Perspective. Taylor & Francis.ISBN 978-1-317-98059-9. Retrieved2024-03-11.
  3. ^Coleman, G. (2016).A Handbook Of Tibetan Culture: A Guide to Tibetan Centres and Resources Throughout the World. Ebury Publishing.ISBN 978-1-4735-5022-3. Retrieved2024-03-11.
  4. ^Kerin, M.R. (2015).Art and Devotion at a Buddhist Temple in the Indian Himalaya. Contemporary Indian Studies. Indiana University Press. p. 217.ISBN 978-0-253-01309-5. Retrieved2024-03-11.
  5. ^Chapman, F.S. (1940).Lhasa the Holy City. Readers Union Limited.
  6. ^Anderson, C.; Cattoi, T. (2022).The Routledge Handbook of Buddhist-Christian Studies. Routledge Handbooks in Religion. Taylor & Francis. p. 156.ISBN 978-1-000-63728-1. Retrieved2024-03-11.
  7. ^Terjék, J.; Csoma, S.K. (1986).Grammar of the Tibetan Language. Bibliotheca Orientalis Hungarica Series. Akadémiai Kiadó.ISBN 978-963-05-4361-3. Retrieved2024-03-11.
  8. ^Cox, S. (2022).The Subtle Body: A Genealogy. Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism. Oxford University Press. p. 91.ISBN 978-0-19-758105-6. Retrieved2024-03-11.
  9. ^Bell, C.A. (1927).Tibet, Past & Present. Oxford University Press : H. Milford. p. 175. Retrieved2024-03-11.
  10. ^Coward, H.; Smith, G.S. (2012).Religion and Peacebuilding. SUNY series in Religious Studies. State University of New York Press. p. 91.ISBN 978-0-7914-8585-9. Retrieved2024-03-11.
  11. ^Richardson, Hugh (Winter 1990). "Introduction".The Tibet Journal.15 (4):3–4.JSTOR 43300372.
  12. ^"One Hundred Thousand Moons: An Advanced Political History of Tibet".Brill.com. Brill. Archived fromthe original on 16 March 2016. Retrieved13 February 2018.
  13. ^Pommaret, Françoise (February 2011). "Reviewed Work(s):One Hundred Thousand Moons: An Advanced Political History of Tibet".The Journal of Asian Studies.70 (1):230–233.doi:10.1017/S0021911810003360.JSTOR 41302243.

Other sources

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  • Tsering Shakya:The Development of Modern Tibetan Studies. In: Robert Barnett (Hg.): Resistance and Reform in Tibet (Bloomington/Indianapolis, Indiana University Press 1994),ISBN 0-253-31131-4, S. 1–14.
  • SHAKABPA, W. D. 1967.Tibet: A Political History [With plates and maps.].Yale University Press: New Haven & London.

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