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SUMMARY:Tibetan Texts on the Cult of Vajravārāhī from Karakhoto
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DESCRIPTION:BuddhistRoad Guest Lecture by Alexander Zorin (Jerusalem)\n\nT
 he lecture will be online at Zoom. Please pre-register until 01 February 2
 023\, 12 pm. Zoom lecture times: 2 pm (Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rom\, Vienna)\
 ; 8 pm (Peking)\, 8 am (East Coast)\n\nAs was shown by Kirill Solonin\, th
 e cult of Vajravārāhī\, a wrathful female yidam deity\, belonged to one
  of the major stems of Esoteric Buddhist. It was natural to assume that Ti
 betan influence played an important role in regard of this cult\, but unti
 l recently\, no Tibetan texts of this kind were identified. However\, it b
 ecame possible only after 2017\, when the P.K. Kozlov collection of Tibeta
 n texts from Karakhoto kept at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts\, the
  Russian Academy of Sciences\, became an object of the thorough analysis a
 nd cataloguing. A number of fragments that deal with Vajravārāhī were i
 dentified and a sample taken from the item ХТ-177 (Kh. Tib. 177) was pub
 lished. In his lecture\, Zorin is going to discuss all the relevant ritual
  texts identified in St. Petersburg\, trying to reconstruct the features o
 f the Tibetan cult of Vajravārāhī as it was known to Tanguts in Karakho
 to.\n\n\nAlexander Zorin is a scholar of Tibetan literature\, Tibetan boo
 k culture\, and the history of Tibetan Studies. For fifteen years he was c
 urator of the Tibetan collection kept at the Institute of Oriental Manuscr
 ipts\, Russian Academy of Sciences. He is currently Research Fellow of the
  Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His recent publications include Alexander
  Zorin\, Tibetan Studies in Russia: A Historical Sketch (Tokyo: The Intern
 ational Institute for Buddhist Studies of The International College for Po
 stgraduate Buddhist Studies\, 2020) and Alexander Zorin\, “On the Versio
 n of Vajracchedikā-prajñāpāramitā-sūtra Used in the 18th Century Kal
 myk Scrolls”\, in Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 58 (2021): 237–266.\n\n
 \nTo join the lecture\, please register at https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom.u
 s/meeting/register/u50sdOqsqTgrG9GBbZSKZldEGd_acpUhteQf
LOCATION:Online Event
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/tibetan-texts-on-the-cult-of-vajravarah
 i-from-kara/
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