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SUMMARY:Light from the North —Tibetan Manuscripts from the Northern-Sect
 or Caves at Dunhuang and their Significance
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DESCRIPTION:BuddhistRoad Guest Lecture by Allan Ding\n\nThe lecture will b
 e available live at Zoom. Please pre-register until 05 December 2023\, 12 
 pm. Zoom lecture times: 2 pm (CET) (Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rom\; Vienna)\n\n
 Dunhuang (敦煌) was a regional center of Tibetan Buddhism during its hey
 day in the 10th century\, attracting Tibetan-speaking Buddhists from neigh
 bouring regions. Because scholars of Tibetan Buddhism at Dunhuang have bee
 n primarily focusing on Tibetan manuscripts from Mogao Cave 17 (a.k.a. the
  Library Cave\, Chin. Mogao ku 莫高窟)\, few have attempted to address 
 the question of how Tibetan Buddhism existed at Dunhuang after the sealing
  of the ‘Library Cave’ around 1006. To complicate the matter\, althoug
 h the Tibetan manuscripts from the Northern-Sector Caves at the Mogao site
 \, some of which have been recently published\, can shed light on this iss
 ue\, it seems that the dating of these manuscripts needs to be reconsidere
 d and re-established as a first step. This talk will use some of the post-
 10th-century Tibetan manuscripts and inscriptional evidence to discuss how
  Tibetan Buddhism continued to survive from the 11th century to the 16th c
 entury.\n\nYi (Allan) Ding is Assistant Professor at the Department of Rel
 igious Studies at DePaul University\, Chicago. He has published several ar
 ticles that deal with Buddhist materials from Dunhuang or Buddhism between
  Tibet and China\, including “‘Translating’ Wutai Shan into Ri bo rt
 se lnga (‘Five-Peak Mountain’): The Inception of a Sino-Tibetan Site i
 n the Mongol-Yuan Era (1206–1368)” Journal of Tibetology 18 (2018) \, 
 “The Transformation of Poṣadha/Zhai in Early Medieval China (2nd–6th
  Centuries CE)” Buddhist Studies Review 36.1 (2019)\, and “By the Powe
 r of the Perfection of Wisdom: The ‘Sūtra-Rotation’ Liturgy of the Ma
 hāprajñāpāramitā in Dunhuang” Journal of the American Oriental Soci
 ety 139.3 (2019).\n\nTo join the lecture\, please register at https://ruh
 r-uni-bochum.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5wpcO-tqjktGdB_A2TAuRJar-pq2-zGRJVd
  \n\n \n\n 
LOCATION:Online-Veranstaltung
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/de/events/light-from-the-north-tibetan-manuscript
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