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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:20260430T012708Z
UID:WS_between_empires_eng-312@ceres.rub.de
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DESCRIPTION:flyer\nDr. Henrik Sorensen changed his title into: "ESOTERIC B
 UDDHISM AT THE CROSS-ROADS: RELIGIOUS DYNAMICS AT DUNHUANG\, 9–10TH CENT
 URIES".\nSince the research consortium in Bochum is concerned to untangle 
 also building blocks that constitute religious transfer processes\, this w
 orkshop aims to explore the case study of the formation of Buddhisms\, par
 ticularly Tantric Buddhism\, in Eastern Central Asia. It seeks to investig
 ate local contributions to Buddhism as the tradition spread through a netw
 ork of Buddhist hubs along the Eastern Central Asia between the 9th and th
 e 13th centuries – a period that was a time of creative upheaval between
  the demise of the great empires of the Uighurs (840)\, the Tibetans (848)
  and the Chinese (fall of Tang in 906) and the Mongolian conquest of large
  parts of Eurasia (ca. 1227-1241). During these centuries of local rule at
  various oases (e.g. Dunhuang\, Guazhou\, Liangzhou\, etc.) different ethn
 ic groups such as the Tibetans\, Chinese\, Uighurs and Tanguts contributed
  to the development of Buddhisms. The workshop will examine the relations 
 and power relations between these ethnic groups and various oases in the f
 ormation of local expressions of Buddhism that later partly turned into ma
 instream in Tibet and China. In other words: the workshop would test the h
 ypothesis if the particular space and time of interest were prerequisites 
 to allow for a creative development of Buddhisms. To narrow the perspectiv
 es\, an emphasis should be on textual and visual transfer processes of Bud
 dhist traditions and on the different ethnic cultural agents. The workshop
  is thus organised in four sections: (1) an introductory part “circumsta
 nces for transfer processes along the Silk Road” to give an overview of 
 the how political\, economy and cultural factors shaped Central Asian oase
 s as Buddhist hubs\; (2) a section on “textual transfer” to elaborate 
 on textual transmission – also between the different ethnic groups and o
 ases\; (3) a section on “visual transfer” to explore the making of Bud
 dhist art at various sites\; and (4) a section on “transfer agents” th
 at would illustrate how Chinese\, Tibetans\, Uighurs and Tanguts contribut
 ed to particular local textual and/or visual forms of Buddhism.
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/WS_between_empires_eng/
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