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SUMMARY:Between Empires-Transfer of Buddhisms between Hubs in Eastern Cent
 ral Asia (9th to 13th century) 
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120920
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120922
DTSTAMP:20260429T234300Z
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DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nDr. Henrik Sorensen hat seinen Titel in: "ESOTERIC BUDD
 HISM AT THE CROSS-ROADS: RELIGIOUS DYNAMICS AT DUNHUANG\,9–10TH CENTURIE
 S"\, geändert. \nSince the research consortium in Bochum is concerned to
  untangle also building blocks that constitute religious transfer processe
 s\, this workshop aims to explore the case study of the formation of Buddh
 isms\, particularly Tantric Buddhism\, in Eastern Central Asia. It seeks t
 o investigate local contributions to Buddhism as the tradition spread thro
 ugh a network of Buddhist hubs along the Eastern Central Asia between the 
 9th and the 13th centuries – a period that was a time of creative upheav
 al between the demise of the great empires of the Uighurs (840)\, the Tibe
 tans (848) and the Chinese (fall of Tang in 906) and the Mongolian conques
 t of large parts of Eurasia (ca. 1227-1241). During these centuries of loc
 al rule at various oases (e.g. Dunhuang\, Guazhou\, Liangzhou\, etc.) diff
 erent ethnic groups such as the Tibetans\, Chinese\, Uighurs and Tanguts c
 ontributed to the development of Buddhisms. The workshop will examine the 
 relations and power relations between these ethnic groups and various oase
 s in the formation of local expressions of Buddhism that later partly turn
 ed into mainstream in Tibet and China. In other words: the workshop would 
 test the hypothesis if the particular space and time of interest were prer
 equisites to allow for a creative development of Buddhisms. To narrow the 
 perspectives\, an emphasis should be on textual and visual transfer proces
 ses of Buddhist traditions and on the different ethnic cultural agents. Th
 e workshop is thus organised in four sections: (1) an introductory part 
 “circumstances for transfer processes along the Silk Road” to give an 
 overview of the how political\, economy and cultural factors shaped Centra
 l Asian oases as Buddhist hubs\; (2) a section on “textual transfer” t
 o elaborate on textual transmission – also between the different ethnic 
 groups and oases\; (3) a section on “visual transfer” to explore the m
 aking of Buddhist art at various sites\; and (4) a section on “transfer 
 agents” that would illustrate how Chinese\, Tibetans\, Uighurs and Tangu
 ts contributed to particular local textual and/or visual forms of Buddhism
 .\nBericht zum Workshop von Carmen Meinert
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/de/events/WS_between_empires_de/
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