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SUMMARY:Cave Murals of Western Tibet
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DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture by David Pritzker (Chicago)\n\nThe lecture is av
 ailable live at Zoom. Please pre-register until 09 November 2021\, 12 pm.\
 n\nIn keeping with aims of the BuddhistRoad project the present lecture wi
 ll explore the relevance of the Silk Road in the establishment and present
 ation of Buddhism and Kingship in West Tibet. The end of the Tibetan Empir
 e’s Pugyal Dynasty (Tib. sPu rgyal\, 7th to 10th c.) and the beginning o
 f the kingdom of Tö Ngari Korsum (Tib. sTod mNa’ ris skor gsum) in West
  Tibet is symbolically embodied in the escape of the royal son Kyi de Nyim
 a Gön (Tib. sKyid de Nyi ma mgon\, d. ca. 930) from the maelstrom of revo
 lt and collapse in Central Tibet. As the bridge between old and new\, Kyi 
 de and his heirs carried the authority and legacy of the Pugyal Tsenpo (Ti
 b. spu rgyal brtsan po) towards the Highlands of West Tibet (ca. 910). But
  this was not simply a direct transfer from Central Tibet to West Tibet\, 
 rather on closer examination of textual and art historical material it bec
 omes clear that this transformation was one that was directly informed by 
 the major Buddhist centers along the Silk Road\, from Dunhuang and the Hex
 i Corridor in the East to greater Kashmir and the Wakhan Corridor in the W
 est. In this light\, the presentation will uncover a West Tibetan kingdom 
 deeply influenced by the Silk Road.\n\n\nDavid Pritzker is the director of
  the Pritzker Art Collaborative\, Chicago\, and is also a Research Fellow 
 at the Art Institute of Chicago. Most recently he has co-curated the exhib
 ition "Cultural Exchange Along the Silk Road: Masterpieces of the Tubo Per
 iod (7th – 9th Century)"\, with Wang Xudong\, director of the Palace Mus
 eum and former director of Dunhuang Academy. The exhibition opened on July
  2\, 2019 and ran until October 22\, 2019 at the Dunhuang Academy Exhibiti
 on Center. More than 461\,000 people visited the show. He received his PhD
  from the University of Oxford with a focus on early textual history and h
 istoriography in Tibet. Since 1996\, in collaboration with China’s Natio
 nal Cultural Heritage Administration and together with Sichuan University\
 , Pritzker has been exploring\, documenting\, and researching early sites 
 of the Purang-Guge Kingdom (Tib. sPu hrangs Gu ge\, ca. 10th c.) in West T
 ibet.\n\n\nTo join the lecture\, please register here https://ruhr-uni-boc
 hum.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5MpfuCupzsqG9GpFjCS518etSOi0LPyQnYo
LOCATION:Online-Veranstaltung
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/de/events/cave-murals-western-tibet/
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