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Lumír Jisl – buddholog a archeolog / Buddhist Scholar and Archaeologist
| Title in English | Lumír Jisl – Buddhist Scholar and Archaeologist |
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Lumír Jisl (18 April 1921, Svijanský Újezd – 22 November 1969, Prague) was a leading Czechoslovak archaeologist and Buddhist scholar, whose field included both research at home and excavations abroad, specifically in Mongolia. In addition to archaeology, he professionally dealt with Buddhist art in China, Tibet, and especially in Mongolia, so he was among the first Czechoslovak Buddhist scholars with field experience. He drew his knowledge in this area from his stays in China and Mongolia (1957–1969) and from the study of materials in museum collections. These were primarily the collections stored in the Náprstek Museum in Prague, but also in museums in Central Europe, especially in Budapest and Vienna, as well as in Western Europe, in Berlin, Leipzig, Rome, Paris, Stockholm, Hamburg, Bonn and Heidelberg. He published the results of his field research and research in museological and private collections in monographs and magazines, in Czech, German, English, French, Polish and Chinese. Lumír Jisl died prematurely at the age of only forty-eight. |
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