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Mag. Dr. Markus Viehbeck

T: +43-1-4277-43566

markus.viehbeck@univie.ac.at

Summer term 2025

142077 PS Nepal's Stolen Deities on Facebook - Recent Controversies in the Restitution of Cultural Heritage from the Himalayas

142138 BA Book and Manuscript Culture in Tibet: Cultural Studies Perspectives

142141 BA Book and Manuscript Culture in Tibet: Philological Perspectives

Viehbeck, M. (2024). Resounding the Buddha’s Sūtras. Film, . https://doi.org/10.25365/phaidra.609

Viehbeck, M., & Werner, E. (2024). Namgyal Manuscript Collection Datasets. Software or database https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14247730

Kellner, B., Mathes, K.-D., Viehbeck, M., Matsuoka, H., Moriyama, S., & Neill, T. (Eds.) (2023). To the Heart of Truth: Felicitation Volume for Eli Franco on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday. (1 ed.) Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studie. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde Vol. 104

Viehbeck, M., Lainé, B., Kellner, B. (Ed.), Mathes, K.-D. (Ed.), & Viehbeck, M. (Ed.) (2022). The Manuscript Kanjur from Shey Palace, Ladakh: Introduction and Catalogue. Arbeitskreis für tibetische und buddhistische Studien der Universität Wien. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde Vol. 102 https://wstb.univie.ac.at/wp-content/uploads/WSTB_102.pdf

Viehbeck, M. (2021). The Toyo Bunko Manuscript Kanjur and Its Importance for the Study of the Tibetan Buddhist Canon: An Introduction. Web publication, . https://app.toyobunko-lab.jp/assets/2_Introduction_Toyo%20Bunko%20Manusript%20%20Kanjur.pdf

Viehbeck, M. (2021). Human Engagement on Manuscript Margins: Glimpses into the Social Life of a Collection of Buddhist Sūtras from Mustang. Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines, 58, 103-138.

Viehbeck, M., & Luczanits, C. (2021). Two Illuminated Text Collections of Namgyal Monastery: A Study of Early Buddhist Art and Literature in Mustang. (1. ed.) Vajra Books. Vajra Academic Vol. 1

Viehbeck, M. (2020). The Yogi and the Scholar: Rhetorical Polemics as Literary Frames and Conceptual Framework in Tibetan Buddhist Discourse . Entangled Religions, 11(4). https://doi.org/10.46586/er.11.2020.8694

Viehbeck, M. (2020). From Sūtra Collections to Kanjurs: Tracing a Network of Buddhist Canonical Literature across the Western and Central Himalayas. Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines, 54, 241-260.

Viehbeck, M. (2019). Indo-Tibetan Relations in Tibetan Polemical Discourse: Reconsidering Cultural Dynamics between Tradition and Innovation. In B. Kellner (Ed.), Buddhism and the Dynamics of Transculturality: New Approaches (pp. 201-224). De Gruyter.

Viehbeck, M. (2018). Mona Chettri. Ethnicity and Democracy in the Eastern Himalayan Borderland: Constructing Democracy. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017. European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, 52, 138-141.

Viehbeck, M., & Torri, D. (2018). Religious Revival and Artistic Renaissance across the Himalayas: An Introduction. European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, 52, 3-16.

Viehbeck, M., & Torri, D. (Eds.) (2018). Special Issue: Religious Revival and Artistic Renaissance across the Himalayas. European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, 52, 3-131.

Viehbeck, M. (2017). Introduction: Cultural History as a History of Encounters - A 'Contact Perspective'. In M. Viehbeck (Ed.), Transcultural Encounters in the Himalayan Borderlands: Kalimpong as a “Contact Zone” (pp. 1-22). Heidelberg University Publishing.

Viehbeck, M. (2017). 'The First Tibetan at a Western University?': Entanglements of Scholarship, Buddhism, and Power in Kalimpong and Beyond. In M. Viehbeck (Ed.), Transcultural Encounters in the Himalayan Borderlands: Kalimpong as a “Contact Zone” (pp. 273-300). Heidelberg University Publishing.

Viehbeck, M. (Ed.) (2017). Transcultural Encounters in the Himalayan Borderlands: Kalimpong as a “Contact Zone”. Heidelberg University Publishing. Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality Vol. 3

Viehbeck, M. (2016). An Indian Classic in 19th-Century Tibet and beyond: Rdza Dpal sprul and the Dissemination of the Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra. Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines, 36, 5-44.

Viehbeck, M. (2016). Coming to Terms with Tibet: Scholarly Networks and the Production of the First 'Modern' Tibetan Dictionaries. Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines, 37, 469-489.

Harris, T., Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, A., Sharma, J., & Viehbeck, M. (2016). Global Encounters, Local Places. Connected Histories of Darjeeling, Kalimpong, and the Himalayas-An Introduction. Transcultural Studies, 7(1), 43-53. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.ts.23542

Harris, T., Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, A., Sharma, J., & Viehbeck, M. (Eds.) (2016). Themed Section: Global Encounters, Local Places. Connected Histories of Darjeeling, Kalimpong, and the Himalayas. Transcultural Studies, 7(1), 43-186.

On the Social and Ritual Usage of Tibetan Manuscripts – With a Screening of the Documentary Resounding the Buddha’s Sūtras

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

3 Feb 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Sacred Texts and Sacred Objects in Dolpo – With a Screening of the Documentary Resounding the Buddha’s Sūtras

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

5 Jan 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

The Social Significance of Tibetan Buddhist Canonical Manuscript Collections – With a Screening of the Documentary Resounding the Buddha’s Sūtras

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

12 Dec 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Resounding the Buddha’s Sūtras. With an introduction to Tibetan manuscript collections in the Dolpo Himalayas

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

7 Nov 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

An Emerging Dedicatory Tradition? Examples from a 13th-Century Sūtra Collection from Drakmar Monastery, Dolpo

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

24 Oct 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Producing an Ethnographic Documentary – As a Philologist

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

4 Oct 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Large Scale Access to Witnesses of Tibetan Canonical Literature: How to Work with the rKTs Archive

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

13 Feb 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

The Documentation and Preservation of Buddhist Canonical Manuscript Culture in Dolpo, Nepal

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

13 Dec 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Endangered Manuscripts at Drakmar Monastery, Dolpo: The Documentation of an Alternative Model of the Tibetan Buddhist Canon

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

29 Nov 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Two Illuminated Text Collections of Namgyal Monastery

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

8 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Preserving and Disseminating Tibetan Canonical Literature Through Digital Means: The Resources for Kanjur and Tanjur Studies (rKTs) Archive

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

28 Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Re-visiting the „Dolpo-Kanjur“ – Disentangling Canonical Collections in the Himalayan Borderlands

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

25 Oct 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Introduction

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

24 Oct 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Resources for Kanjur & Tanjur Studies (rKTs)

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker) & Bruno Lainé (Speaker)

8 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

From “Archaic” to “Later Standard”? Reconsidering Stylistic Typologies of Western Tibetan Canonical Manuscripts

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

6 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Himalayan Sūtra Collections – Textual, Material, and Social Perspectives

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

5 Apr 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Textual Treasures and Endangered Manuscript Traditions in the Himalayas

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

10 May 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

News from Resources for Kanjur & Tanjur Studies: Buddhist Canonical Collections in the Himalayan Borderlands

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

14 Nov 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

The Shifting Places of Textual Collections in Tibetan Monasteries, Illustrated by Canonical Manuscripts from Mustang

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

12 Jul 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Digital Tools and Philological Challenges in Working with Tibetan Canonical Literature (Seminar)

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

2 Feb 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Off the Mainstream: Tracing a Network of Sūtra Collections across the Himalayas

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

31 Jan 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Polemics as Literary and Conceptual Framework: A Case Study from Nineteenth-Century Tibet

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

29 Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

A Sūtra Canon Distinct from the Kanjur? Reports from Buddhist Textual Collections in Mustang and Dolpo

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

17 Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Sūtra Collections from Namgyal Monastery, Mustang – A Kanjur in the Making?

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

22 Oct 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Computing Kanjurs: Research Perspectives and Online Resources of the Tibetan Manuscript Project Vienna (TMPV)

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

13 Sept 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Über das Verhältnis von Texten und Kontexten: Ein Blick in die rezentere Buch- und Kulturgeschichte Tibets

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

23 Jan 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

The Debate between 'Ju Mi pham and Dpa' ris Rab gsal : Tibetan Controversies on the Indian Tradition

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

26 Apr 2010

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

A Middle Way of Synthesis and Segregation : An Introduction to the Madhyamaka-Philosophy of 'Ju Mi pham

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

13 Dec 2009

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

A Restless Rnying ma-Reviver : The Life of 'Ju Mi pham (1846-1912) and the Debates with the Dge lugs pa-Tradition

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

6 Dec 2009

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Die Lehre von satyadvaya in 'Ju Mi phams Nor bu ke ta ka

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

24 Sept 2007

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Himalayan Sutra Collections

Viehbeck, M., Silk, J., Helman-Ważny, A., Berounsky, D., Choekhortshang, N. W., Laine, B. & Tauscher, H.

1/09/22 → 31/08/26

Project: Research funding

Kanjur-Sammlungen in Grenzgebieten Tibets

Tauscher, H., Viehbeck, M. & Laine, B.

12/06/17 → 11/04/22

Project: Research funding

Tibetan Madhyamaka exegesis: later developments

Tauscher, H. & Viehbeck, M.

7/02/07 → 6/10/10

Project: Research funding

Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies

Spitalgasse 2
1090 Wien
Room: 2A-Z1-15

T: +43-1-4277-43566

markus.viehbeck@univie.ac.at