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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jim Rheingans, M.A.
Jim Rheingans
T: +43-1-4277-43555
Summer term 2024
420012 SE EurAsian Transformations Doctoral Seminar - New Perspectives in the Philological, Historical and Cultural Studies of EuraAsia: Basic Methods and Interdisciplinary Approaches
Winter term 2023
142211 UE Understanding Tibetan Poetry: - Indo-Tibetan Tantric Poems, Songs of Realisation, and Folk Songs
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Rheingans, J., & Müller-Witte, F. (2005). Die Meditation auf den Lama in vier Sitzungen. In N. Douglas, & M. White (Eds.), Karmapa: König der Verwirklicher (pp. 167–185). Buddhistischer Verlag.

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Discussing the dharma:answers to questions (dris lan) by 15th century Kagyupa masters as sources for the study of Tibetan religious history

Jim Rheingans (Speaker)

13 May 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Tulkus, Titles, Disagreements: Succession by Reincarnation in Tibetan Societies

Jim Rheingans (Speaker)

30 Nov 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The “Eight Dohā Treasuries” (Dohā mDzod brgyad): A ‘Gray Text’ Collection from the 12th Century and its Reception

Jim Rheingans (Speaker)

11 Jul 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Mystics as Scholars: The Obscure Role of Abhidharma in Tibetan Kagyüpa Meditation Traditions From the 15th to17th Centuries

Jim Rheingans (Speaker)

9 Dec 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Technical Terms in Yogic Cultures? Logico-Epistemological Terminologies in Meditation Instructions

Jim Rheingans (Speaker)

12 Jul 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Steps of a well-known Avalokiteśvara practice

Jim Rheingans (Speaker)

1 Feb 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Songs of the First Karma Thrinlepa (1456–1539), a Tibetan Scholar-Meditator

Jim Rheingans (Speaker)

8 Nov 20189 Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Translating Tibetan Spiritual Poetry in Context

Jim Rheingans (Speaker)

26 Feb 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Translating the Untranslatable: On Rendering the Tibetan Söldeb (‘to pray?’) and Similar Words into English

Jim Rheingans (Speaker)

5 Feb 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Interactions at the courts of local rulers and religious hierarchs in 15th and 16th century Tibet

Jim Rheingans (Speaker)

16 Oct 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Mind the Head: The Yellow and other Tibetan Hats and Some Curious Incidents Surrounding Their Social and Religious Symbolism

Jim Rheingans (Speaker)

24 Nov 201625 Nov 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


How do texts function? Text type and communicative function in Tibetan literature

Jim Rheingans (Speaker)

14 Oct 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


How to do things with texts? Text type and communicative function in Tibetan literature

Jim Rheingans (Speaker)

12 Oct 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


What is a vow? Doctrinal and cultural concepts of sdom pa and dam bca

Jim Rheingans (Speaker)

22 Jun 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Von Yogis, Mönchen und Tulkus: Was machte Buddhisten in Tibet zu prägenden Figuren?

Jim Rheingans (Speaker)

16 Dec 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Tibetan hagiographies in Buddhist teaching: Narrative performances and their reception in past and present

Jim Rheingans (Speaker)

18 Aug 201423 Aug 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Masters, Monks and Myths: Introducing Tibetan Buddhism

Jim Rheingans (Speaker)

19 Dec 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Songs, Empowerments and Dialogues: Embedded Texts and their Function in Tibetan Spiritual Biographies

Jim Rheingans (Speaker)

20 Jun 201225 Jun 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Narratology and Narrative Strategies in Hagiographies

Jim Rheingans (Speaker)

2 Mar 20123 Mar 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Remarks about the Question and Answer (dris lan) Texts of Tibetan Literature as a Textual Type

Jim Rheingans (Speaker)

27 Jan 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



Kompilation von tibetisch-buddhistischen Textsammlungen. Untersuchungen zu Autorenschaft, Produktion und Tradition

Jim Rheingans (Speaker)

18 Dec 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Religio-Political Conflict and its Solutions in Spiritual Biographies of Medieval Tibet

Jim Rheingans (Speaker)

14 Jun 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Approaching Religions Inside/out—Outside/in: Methodological Pluralism in Context

Jim Rheingans (Speaker)

19 Nov 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Did Politics Influence Religious Doctrine in Tibet? Wars Between Central Tibet and Tsang During the Period of Rinpungpa Dominance (1478-1565)

Jim Rheingans (Speaker)

14 Mar 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ontologie, Praxis, Text

Jim Rheingans (Speaker)

24 Sep 2007

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Experiencing the Innate (sahaja): The Eighth Karmapa and his Great Seal (Mahāmudrā) in Context

Jim Rheingans (Speaker)

11 Mar 2007

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Life and Works of the First Karma ’phrin las pa

Jim Rheingans (Speaker)

2 Sep 2005

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Die Schulen und die Geschichte des Buddhismus

Jim Rheingans (Speaker)

17 Apr 2005

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


The Liberation Story Narratives of Karma ’phrin las pa: A Non-sectarian Master of the 15th Century

Jim Rheingans (Speaker)

12 Feb 2005

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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