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Forthcoming
Michaelmas
2005 Seminar Series:
Tuesday 29th November
Hildegard Diemberger
MIASU
Life Lived Over: When a Woman becomes a Dynasty
The Samding Dorje Phagmo of Tibet
Seminar room G, 17 Mill Lane
4.30–6.00
Exhibition
Images of Inner Asia
1st December – 31st January
Double
Exposure Gallery
Old Exam Hall, New Museums Site, Free School Lane, Cambridge
CB2 3RS
Visit to MIASU of delegation of Chinese Tibetologists and Tibetan Buddhists
On 21st October, the unit welcomed to Cambridge a delegation headed by Mr Pasang Wangdu, Director of the Nationality Studies Institute of the Tibet Academy of Social Sciences with:
Mr Denzin Chutra, Tulku Rinpoche of the Xinza Monastery, Langkazi County, Tibet, Mr Ngawang Tsering of the Contemporary Tibet Studies Institute of the TASS, Mr Gu Shengkai of the China International Cultural Association, Mr Hong Tao of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China and Ms Zhang Lei, interpreter, of the Foreign Affairs Ministry of China.
Current Research Project
Work
is currently underway on the research project, 'The Treasures of Danzan
Ravjaa', which aims to digitally photograph a rare privately-owned cache
of Mongolian and Tibetan manuscripts that were spared from the communist
repression, and recently unearthed from caves in the Outer Mongolian province
of Dorngobi.
These manuscripts belonged to the person of Danzan Ravjaa (Tib. Bstan ‘dzin
rab gyas/ 1803-1857), the 5th incarnation in the lineage of the Gobi Noyons,
whose monastery was the centre of a political and artistic renaissance at
the crossroads of Tibet, Mongolia and China in the 19th century. Danzan
Ravjaa is significant for his eclectic religious outlook that combined both
the reformed ‘Yellow Hat’ and the unreformed ‘Red Hat’
sects of Tibetan Buddhism. Besides his eclectic religious orientation, he
was an artist and polymath who left behind scores of operas, poems and prophecies
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