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Obraz tibetského buddhismu z terénního výzkumu : Lumír Jisl, jeho expedice do Mongolska a Náprstkovo muzeum
| Title in English | An image of Tibetan Buddhism from field research : Lumír Jisl, his expedition to Mongolia and the Náprstek Museum |
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Lumír Jisl was a leading Czechoslovak archaeologist whose area of research included both home-ground research and excavations and surface collections during his four working trips to Mongolia. In 1958, he led the highly successful first Czechoslovak foreign archaeological expedition, which focused on exploring the monument of the Turkic Prince Kültegin. In addition to archaeology, L. Jisl was professionally involved in Buddhist art (he used the contemporary term "Lamaist art") in China, Tibet, and especially in Mongolia. He drew his knowledge in this field from his stays in China and Mongolia (1957-1969), as well as from the study of museum collections in Prague (especially the Náprstek Museum), Central Europe (Budapest, Vienna) and Western Europe (Berlin, Leipzig, Rome, Stockholm, Hamburg, Bonn, Heidelberg). He published the results of his in situ research (he visited Mongolia four times) and research on museological and private collections in monographs and journals, in Czech and in foreign languages. His texts were both scholarly and popular. L. Jisl, who was one of the pioneers of Czechoslovak research in Mongolia and China, died prematurely on 22 November 1969 in Prague at the age of only forty-eight. He has left a rich, not yet fully developed scientific legacy, which is in the careful possession of his two daughters. From Mongolia, he brought back a number of Buddhist artefacts, some of which ended up in the Náprstek Museum. Thanks to his unpublished travel diaries from Mongolia, the remarkable circumstances of the discovery and acquisition of these particular objects can be revealed. |
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