Markus Viehbeck

 

Contact:

E-Mail: markus.viehbeck@univie.ac.at
Web: https://univie.academia.edu/MarkusViehbeck


Markus Viehbeck is a Postdoctoral Researcher and PI in the FWF-funded project Himalayan Sūtra Collections: Textual, Material, and Social Perspectives (P35697-G). In the past, he has held positions as researcher and lecturer at the ISTB, as Assistant Professor at the Chair of Buddhist Studies, Cluster "Asia & Europe," University of Heidelberg (2010-2018), and as Interim Professor for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at LMU-Munich (2022). At the ISTB, he also acts as the chair of the Association for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies issuing the monograph series Vienna Series for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies.

His research interests address diverse topics within Tibetan and Himalayan religion, history, and culture, with a focus on the Tibetan Buddhist canon and Himalayan manuscript studies, Tibetan and Buddhist intellectual history, and processes of transcultural exchange.

His publications include Polemics in Indo-Tibetan Scholasticism (Vienna, 2014), the edited volume Transcultural Encounters in the Himalayan Borderlands (Heidelberg, 2017), as well as the two co-authored monographs Two Illuminated Text Collections of Namgyal Monastery (Kathmandu, 2021) and The Manuscript Kanjur from Shey Palace, Ladakh (Vienna, 2022). For the Tibetan Manuscript Project Vienna (TMPV), he documents and studies manuscripts of Tibetan Buddhist canonical literature and contributes to building up a comprehensive database at Resources for Kanjur & Tanjur Studies (rKTs).


Online resources

Tibetan Manuscript Project Vienna (TMPV): https://tmpv.univie.ac.at

Resources for Kanjur & Tanjur Studies (rKTs): http://www.rkts.org

Himalayan Times (periodical): https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/himalayan_times?ui_lang=eng


 

 

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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. Religion and Society Vol. 64




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. (2015). English summary of Geshe Phuntshog Nyima's article "Gangs can dol po'i chos rig". In P. Mc Allister, C. Scherrer-Schaub, & H. Krasser (Eds.), Cultural Flows across the Western Himalaya (pp. 487-489). Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW).


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

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

24 Oct 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Producing an Ethnographic Documentary – As a Philologist

Markus Viehbeck (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

Markus Viehbeck (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

Markus Viehbeck (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

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

29 Nov 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Two Illuminated Text Collections of Namgyal Monastery

Markus Viehbeck (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

Markus Viehbeck (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

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

25 Oct 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Introduction

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

24 Oct 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Resources for Kanjur & Tanjur Studies (rKTs)

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker) & Bruno Lainé (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

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

6 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Himalayan Sūtra Collections – Textual, Material, and Social Perspectives

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

5 Apr 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Textual Treasures and Endangered Manuscript Traditions in the Himalayas

Markus Viehbeck (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

Markus Viehbeck (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

Markus Viehbeck (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)

Markus Viehbeck (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

Markus Viehbeck (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

Markus Viehbeck (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

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

17 Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Markus Viehbeck (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)

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

13 Sep 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

Markus Viehbeck (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

Markus Viehbeck (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

Markus Viehbeck (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

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

6 Dec 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)

24 Sep 2007

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Himalayan Sutra Collections

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

1/09/2231/08/26

Project: Research funding


Kanjur-Sammlungen in Grenzgebieten Tibets

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

12/06/1711/04/22

Project: Research funding



Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies

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markus.viehbeck@univie.ac.at