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Delegation from the Government of the Tibet Autuonomous Region
On Friday3rd November the Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit welcomed to Cambridge, HU Chuanhua, Deputy Party Secretary of the CPC Committee, TAN Yungao, Director General of the Department of Commerce, DING Yexian, Director General of the Finance Department, YU Heping, Deputy Director General of the Committee for Reform and Development, DAWA Tsering, Divisional Chief of the Department of Commerce and LIU Shusen, Deputy Division Chief/Translator, Foreign Affairs Office. The Delegation was escorted by Counsellor JIANG Fan and Second Secretary LI Minghui of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China.
The Delegation was greeted at King's College by Dr Kate Pretty, Professor Caroline Humphrey and Dr Hildegard Diemberger. The party was then escorted to the University Library to view progress on The Tibetan-Mongolian Rare Books and Manuscripts Project, a three-year project funded by the AHRC and co-ordinated by Dr Hildegard Diemberger for the cataloguing, microfilming and digitising of Tibetan and Mongolian texts available at Cambridge, Oxford and The British Library - primarily the Waddel/Younghusband collection. Professor Humphrey then hosted a lunch at King's College.
New Book from Global Oriental
Dr Rebecca Empson (ed.) Time, Causality and Prophecy in the Mongolian Cutural Region
This book explores the arenas in which prophets and their prophecies have influenced the processes of decision-making, concepts of authority and ideas about causality and time in the Mongolian cultural region. Contents include 'Prophecy in Written Texts' by Uranchimeg Borjigin, 'A Case Study of Prophecies in Political Life' by Caroline Humphrey, 'The Contemporary Distribution of Prophecy and the Performance of Prophets' by Oyantugalag Ayush, 'Oral prophecy' and 'How Cyclical Time Meets Prophetic Time' by Rebecca Empson.