Prof. Dr. Maho Iuchi (Associate Professor, The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research and Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto; Visiting Scholar, Wolfson College, University of Oxford)Post-Imperial Tibetan History and Its Sources

9 July 2024

16:00, 9 July 2024. Alsterterrasse 1, Room 117

Tibetan history in the early post-imperial period has been understood based on limited references in later historical sources due to an overwhelming lack of sources from that time, especially compared with other periods. In this context, excavated texts from Khara-khoto, located in present Inner Mongolia and Phuri (phu ri) near the border with Nepal, have significant value as a body of sources contemporaneous with post-imperial Tibet. Additionally, recently available manuscripts in the collection of the Fifth Dalai Lama (1617–1682) and Potala Palace are equally important in that they provide keen insight into the historical void.

In this talk, I will introduce these sources and my research on them, including an overview of Japanese previous studies on Tibetan history of this period.

The lecture will be held at Alsterterrasse 1, Room 117, 20146 Hamburg, and via Zoom. For those who wish to participate via Zoom and are not students/members of Universität Hamburg, please write a short email to Prof. Dr. Wangchuk one day before the event: dorji.wangchuk@uni-hamburg.de.

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Prof. Dr. Dorji Wangchuk (Director) & Dr. Orna Almogi (Co-director)
Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship (KC-TBTS)
Abteilung für Kultur und Geschichte Indiens und Tibets
Asien-Afrika-Institut
Universität Hamburg
Alsterterrasse 1
D-20354 Hamburg