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SUMMARY:Avalokiteśvara in Dunhuang and Tibet: The Development of a Bodhis
 attva's Mythology
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DESCRIPTION:BuddhistRoad Guest Lecture by Reinier Langelaar (Vienna)\n\nTh
 e lecture will be available live at Zoom. Please pre-register until 07 Feb
 ruary 2023\, 12 pm. Zoom lecture times: 2 pm (CET) (Amsterdam\, Berlin\, R
 om\; Vienna)\n\nThis lecture will discuss the connections and gaps between
  Tibetan Dunhuang manuscripts on Avalokiteśvara and post-dynastic materia
 ls from the Tibetan Plateau\, where this bodhisattva would attain unparall
 eled standing. Mapping how Avalokiteśvara acquired his paramount status i
 n Tibet\, the talk combines Dunhuang materials with detailed study of pivo
 tal Tibetan works from the early second millennium\, chief among which the
  bKa’ chems ka khol ma [Pillar Testament] and the Ma ṇi bka’ ’bum 
 [Collected Works on the Maṇi (Mantra)]\, in which the bodhisattva plays 
 an outsize role. The textual histories of these early writings\, some rece
 nt strides notwithstanding\, remain largely unexplored. Bringing new insig
 hts into their past\, Reinier Langelaar will illustrate how the Tibetan my
 thology and cult of Avalokiteśvara developed. To what extent did they pig
 gyback on pre-existing traditions that circulated in surrounding areas\, s
 uch as Dunhuang? And when and how did innovative Tibetan twists\, if any\,
  come about?\n\nReinier Langelaar is a Tibetologist. He is a postdoc at th
 e Austrian Academy of Science’s Institute for the Cultural and Intellect
 ual History of Asia (IKGA)\, where he focuses on Tibetan social and religi
 ous history\, in particular Buddhist historiography and the development of
  Tibetan national mythology. His recent publications include “Buried Bon
 es and Buddhas Beyond: Ancestor Cults in 17th-century Khams and the Transc
 endentalisation of Tibetan Religion.” In The Social and the Religious i
 n the Making of Tibetan Societies. New Perspectives on Imperial Tibet\, ed
 ited by Guntram Hazod\, Mathias Fermer\, and Christian Jahoda\, 283–308.
  Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften\, 2022\, and “Biog
 raphy and Hierarchy: The Tibetan Ruling House of Phag-mo-gru and the Singu
 lar Volume of the Rlangs (Rlangs-kyi-po-ti-bse-ru).” Medieval Worlds 15 
 (2022): 75–94.\n\nTo join the lecture\, please register at https://ruhr
 -uni-bochum.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Mkf-CsqT8vGdP4YnUurFZK3vNhg8B_lkTv
LOCATION:Online Event
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/avalokitesvara-in-dunhuang-and-tibet-th
 e-developme/
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