Markus Viehbeck

Markus Viehbeck

Kontakt:

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

Markus Viehbeck studied Indology and Religious Studies at LMU Munich and graduated in Tibetan and Buddhist Studies from the University of Vienna, where he also received his PhD (2012). He is a Senior Scientist at the ISTB and also the Vice Director of Studies. He further works as a coordinator for the CIRDIS research network 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). 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, processes of transcultural exchange, and archival practices.

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