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Mag. Dr. Markus Viehbeck
Markus Viehbeck
T: +43-1-4277-43566
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Viehbeck, M., & Werner, E. (2025). Automated Character Recognition in Early Tibetan Canonical Manuscripts. Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines, (79), 55-65.



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. (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., & 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




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Unlocking Tibetan Canonical Literature through OCR: Coping with Large-scale and Heterogeneous Textual Sources

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker) & Laine, B. (Speaker)

3 Oct 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A Tantra Corpus Prior to Tantra Sections in Kangyurs? A Case Study of Canonical Manuscripts from the Dolpo Himalaya

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

15 Aug 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


How to Access Tibetan Buddhist Canonical Literature? A Practical Introduction to the rKTs Archive

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

30 May 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Endangered Manuscript Traditions in the Dolpo Himalayas – With a Screening of the Documentary Resounding the Buddha’s Sūtras

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

29 May 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

3 Feb 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

5 Jan 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public



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

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

7 Nov 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

24 Oct 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Producing an Ethnographic Documentary – As a Philologist

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

4 Oct 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

13 Feb 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

13 Dec 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

29 Nov 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Two Illuminated Text Collections of Namgyal Monastery

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

8 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


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

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

28 Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

25 Oct 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Introduction

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

24 Oct 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Resources for Kanjur & Tanjur Studies (rKTs)

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker) & Lainé, B. (Speaker)

8 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

6 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Himalayan Sūtra Collections – Textual, Material, and Social Perspectives

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

5 Apr 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Textual Treasures and Endangered Manuscript Traditions in the Himalayas

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

10 May 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

14 Nov 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

12 Jul 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

2 Feb 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

31 Jan 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

29 Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

17 Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

22 Oct 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

13 Sept 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

23 Jan 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

26 Apr 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

13 Dec 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

6 Dec 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Viehbeck, M. (Speaker)

24 Sept 2007

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Himalayan Sutra Collections

Viehbeck, M. (Project Lead), Silk, J. (Cooperation Partner), Helman-Ważny, A. (Cooperation Partner), Berounsky, D. (Cooperation Partner), Choekhortshang, N. W. (Cooperation Partner), Laine, B. (Scientific Project Staff) & Tauscher, H. (Scientific Project Staff)

1/09/2231/08/26

Project: Research funding


Kanjur-Sammlungen in Grenzgebieten Tibets

Tauscher, H. (Project Lead), Viehbeck, M. (Scientific Project Staff) & Laine, B. (Project Staff)

12/06/1711/04/22

Project: Research funding


Tibetan Madhyamaka exegesis: later developments

Tauscher, H. (Project Lead) & Viehbeck, M. (Scientific Project Staff)

7/02/076/10/10

Project: Research funding


Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies

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1090 Wien
Room: 2A-Z1-15

T: +43-1-4277-43566

markus.viehbeck@univie.ac.at