Markus Viehbeck
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
All activities
Resounding the Buddha’s Sūtras. With an introduction to Tibetan manuscript collections in the Dolpo Himalayas
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An Emerging Dedicatory Tradition? Examples from a 13th-Century Sūtra Collection from Drakmar Monastery, Dolpo
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Producing an Ethnographic Documentary – As a Philologist
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Large Scale Access to Witnesses of Tibetan Canonical Literature: How to Work with the rKTs Archive
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The Documentation and Preservation of Buddhist Canonical Manuscript Culture in Dolpo, Nepal
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Endangered Manuscripts at Drakmar Monastery, Dolpo: The Documentation of an Alternative Model of the Tibetan Buddhist Canon
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Two Illuminated Text Collections of Namgyal Monastery
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Preserving and Disseminating Tibetan Canonical Literature Through Digital Means: The Resources for Kanjur and Tanjur Studies (rKTs) Archive
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Re-visiting the „Dolpo-Kanjur“ – Disentangling Canonical Collections in the Himalayan Borderlands
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Introduction
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Resources for Kanjur & Tanjur Studies (rKTs)
Markus Viehbeck (Speaker) & Bruno Lainé (Speaker)
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From “Archaic” to “Later Standard”? Reconsidering Stylistic Typologies of Western Tibetan Canonical Manuscripts
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Himalayan Sūtra Collections – Textual, Material, and Social Perspectives
Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Textual Treasures and Endangered Manuscript Traditions in the Himalayas
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News from Resources for Kanjur & Tanjur Studies: Buddhist Canonical Collections in the Himalayan Borderlands
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The Shifting Places of Textual Collections in Tibetan Monasteries, Illustrated by Canonical Manuscripts from Mustang
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Digital Tools and Philological Challenges in Working with Tibetan Canonical Literature (Seminar)
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Off the Mainstream: Tracing a Network of Sūtra Collections across the Himalayas
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Polemics as Literary and Conceptual Framework: A Case Study from Nineteenth-Century Tibet
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A Sūtra Canon Distinct from the Kanjur? Reports from Buddhist Textual Collections in Mustang and Dolpo
Markus Viehbeck (Speaker)
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Sūtra Collections from Namgyal Monastery, Mustang – A Kanjur in the Making?
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Computing Kanjurs: Research Perspectives and Online Resources of the Tibetan Manuscript Project Vienna (TMPV)
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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)
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The Debate between 'Ju Mi pham and Dpa' ris Rab gsal : Tibetan Controversies on the Indian Tradition
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A Middle Way of Synthesis and Segregation : An Introduction to the Madhyamaka-Philosophy of 'Ju Mi pham
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A Restless Rnying ma-Reviver : The Life of 'Ju Mi pham (1846-1912) and the Debates with the Dge lugs pa-Tradition
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Die Lehre von satyadvaya in 'Ju Mi phams Nor bu ke ta ka
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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
Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies
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