Project information
Deities of Tibetan Religions: Approach of the Academic Studies of Religions
- Project Identification
- GA401/08/0762
- Project Period
- 1/2008 - 12/2010
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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Czech Science Foundation
- Standard Projects
- MU Faculty or unit
- Faculty of Arts
- Keywords
- Buddhism; Tibet; iconography, academic study of religions; deities; thangka
- Cooperating Organization
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National Gallery Prague
- Responsible person PhDr. Zdenka Klimtová
- Responsible person doc. Daniel Berounský, Ph.D.
Present project is aimed at the research on particular depictions in Tibetan Buddhism from the perspective of Academic Study of Religions. It includes new and more detailed description of the Tibetan and Mongolian items in the Collection of Asian Art, National Gallery in Prague. After such descriptive part, studies of selected particular depictions will be carried on. Such studies firstly attempt to see them within the context of their own religious tradition and then in the wider context of Asia or various traditions of Buddhism. At least six studies will be part of the outcome of the project. This particular research will be echoed in the monography with preliminary title Deities of Tibetan Buddhism and their depictions which on the basis of particular research approach the typology of depictions and deities. The paticipants in the project are specialists from two universties and the National Gallery in Prague.
Publications
Total number of publications: 13
2009
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Russian Field Study of Tibetan Buddhism in the End of 19th and Beginning of 20th Century: Bazar Baradin and Gonbozhab Tsybikov
Pantheon, year: 2009, volume: 3, edition: 1
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Smějící se Buddha: Hwašang a jeho zobrazení
Olivová Lucie (ed.), Postava šibala v asijské slovesnosti, year: 2009
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The Shambhala Myth in Buryatia and Mongolia
Tomasz Gacek – Jadwiga Pstrusinska (Eds.) Proceedings of the European Society for the Central Asian Studies, year: 2009