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Tibetology (Tibetan: བོད་རིག་པ།, bod-rig-pa) refers to the study of things related to Tibet, including its history, religion, language, culture, politics and the collection of Tibetan articles of historical, cultural and religious significance. Tibetological Anthropology, starting with the perspective of anthropology, is intended to give an overview of the anthropological research carried out at home and abroad on Tibetan culture. It is assumed that Tibetology and anthropology are closely related as anthropology expands the horizons of Tibetological research by improving its theories and methods. The article suggests to form a new science Tibetological Anthropology, which should dispel cultural conflicts.
Is Tibetan civilization unitary or pluralistic? Tibetological Anthropology that contains expectations for historical research. It is different from Tibetan Studies, it pays more attention to the research of history and civilization, and focuses on the combination with the ethnographic method of anthropology. The relationship between historical and humanistic research and reality can better handle the contradiction between rigorous academics and broad vision. Because only by broadening our horizons can we have dialogue with other regions, explain the Tibetan living system and civilization system in cross-regional cooperation, and summarize the general theory of Tibetan civilization.
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Western Tibetan studies has two traditions: one is the textual tradition. For example, at the end of the 19th century, they paid attention to the historical origins of Tibetan documents and their relationship with Sanskrit—this tradition has continued to this day; the other is concerned with people and society From the 1950s to the mid-1980s, Western scholars were unable to set foot in China’s Tibetan areas to do field research. They could only conduct field investigations on Tibetan communities in the outskirts of the Himalayas, using areas such as India and Nepal as field points, focusing on language, religion, literature, and society. Structure and other themes, and use this to reconstruct the overall schema of Tibetan traditional society. In recent years, Western studies of Himalayan and Tibet have turned to focus on globalized trade networks, cultural changes, symbolism, colonialism, and reflection and criticism of cultural hegemony.
The curriculum of the Anthropological and cultural-linguistic focus of the course is past and present-day Tibet. The four main topics are:
1.Buddhism society under the humanistic vision
2.The symbol and meaning of hierophany, materiality and material culture in early imperial Tibet
3.Buddhism and social transformation
4.Rethinking in the Buddhist society and the religious-political relationship
Social anthropological, art historical, architectural and Tibetological research is combined with materials-related assessments.Through more diversified and diversified perspectives, various topics and directions have been put forward to think about possible research paths of the combination of Tibetology and anthropology.
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課程內容與指定閱讀 |
教學活動與課前、課後作業 |
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Week 1 |
Tibetological Anthropology：Tibet as a Methodology |
Course Description: the whole course design and time arrangement. The knowledge production of the Social Sciences, and the future research plan. |
3 |
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Week 2 |
Tibetan-Himalayan civilization |
Required Readings: Tucci,Gergoe，1990,Tibetan Painted Scrolls, Kyoto：Rinsen Book Co.,Ltd Giuseppe Tucci, 2001, Tibet archeology, translated by Hong Kong, Beijing: China Tibetan studies press. Levine, Nancy E.1988 The Dynamics of Polyandry: Kinship, Domesticity, and Population on the Tibetan Border. Chicago: the University of Chicago Press. Supplementary readings: Carrasco, Pedro,1959,Land And Polity In Tibet. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Mumford, Stan Royal 1989 Himalayan Dialogue :Tibetan Lamas and Gurung Shamans in Nepal. Madison, Wisconsin: the University of Wisconsin Press. Ortner, Sherry B 1970 Buddhism and Society: A Great Tradition and Its Burmese Vicissitudes. New York: Harper & Row. |
4 |
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Week 3 |
Overview of International Tibetan Studies
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Required Readings: Aziz, Barbara Nirmri 1978 Tibetan Frontier Families: Reflections of Three Generations from D'ing-ri. Durham: Carolina Academic Press. Ortner, Sherry B. 1989 High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism. Princton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.Paul, Ellen Frankel, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul, eds. Supplementary readings: Makley, Charlene. 2018. The Battle for Fortune: State-led Development, Personhood and Power among Tibetans in China : Cornell University Press |
4 |
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Week 4 |
A Survey of Tibetan Studies in Taiwan |
Required Readings: Fabienne Jagou,2021,Gongga Laoren (1903-1997) : Her Role in the Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in Taiwan. |
4 |
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Week 5 |
Visit 1: Mongolian and Tibetan Cultural Center |
Required Readings: Goldstein, Melvyn C. The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 1997. Goldstein, Melvyn C. & Matthew T. Kapstein ,eds.1998 Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet :Religious Revival and Cultural Identity. Berkeley, California : University of California Press. Tsering Shakya, 1999, The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet.New York : Columbia University Press. Supplementary readings: McGranahan, Carole. 2003. ‘Empire and the Status of Tibet: British, Chinese, and Tibetan Negotiations, 1913-1934’. In The History of Tibet, Volume 3: The Tibetan Encounter with Modernity, edited by Alex McKay, 267-295. Goldstein, Melvyn C., Dawei Sherap, and William R. Siebenschuh ,2004， A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press |
4 |
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Week 6 |
From "cold society" to "hot society":Modern and Contemporary Process in Tibet
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Required Readings: Goldstein, Melvyn C. The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 1997. Goldstein, Melvyn C. & Matthew T. Kapstein ,eds.1998 Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet :Religious Revival and Cultural Identity. Berkeley, California : University of California Press. Tsering Shakya, 1999, The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet.New York : Columbia University Press. Supplementary readings: McGranahan, Carole. 2003. ‘Empire and the Status of Tibet: British, Chinese, and Tibetan Negotiations, 1913-1934’. In The History of Tibet, Volume 3: The Tibetan Encounter with Modernity, edited by Alex McKay, 267-295. Goldstein, Melvyn C., Dawei Sherap, and William R. Siebenschuh ,2004， A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press |
4 |
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Week 7 |
The Guru as a Cultural Category |
Required Readings: Lopez, Jr., Donald S. Prisoners of Shangri-La, Tibetan Buddhism and the West. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Schwieger, Peter. 2015. The Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China: A Political History of the Tibetan Institution of Reincarnation. New York: Columbia University Press. Supplementary readings: Goldstein, Melvyn C. & Matthew T. Kapstein ,eds.1998 Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet :Religious Revival and Cultural Identity. Berkeley, California : University of California Press. Tuttle, Gray 2005. Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China, Columbia University Luciano Petech, 2008, "the nobility and government of Tibet", translated by Shen Weirong and Song Liming, published by Deng Ruiling school and the center of Tibetan studies. |
4 |
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Week 8
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midterm test Tibet movie review |
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4 |
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Week 9 |
Tibetan Buddhist Politics Lecture |
Tibetan Buddhism under Political Transformations |
4 |
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Week10 |
Buddhist Material Culture and Museology in Tibet
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Required Readings: David Jackson, 2001, History of Tibet painting, Lhasa: Tibet people's publishing house. Harris, Clare. 1999. In the Image of Tibet: Tibetan Painting after 1959. London: Reaktion Books Ltd. Harris, Clare. 2012. The Museum on the Roof of the World: Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Supplementary readings: Robert Beer, 2007, "Tibetan Buddhist symbols and utensils graphic", translated by Hong Hong, Beijing: China Tibetan studies press. |
4 |
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Week 11 |
Civilized Shamans：Tibet's Multiverse
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Required Readings: Geoffrey Samuel , 1993, Civilized Shamans: Buddhism in Tibetan Societies, Smithsonian Institution Press Kapstein, Matthew The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism: Conversion, Contestation and Memory, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2000 Supplementary readings: Keyes, Charels F. & E. Valentine Daniel, 1983 Karma: an Anthropological Inquiry. Berkley, California: University of the California Press. |
4 |
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Week 12 |
Eco-spirituality and Eco-justice in Tibet sacred natural sites
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Required Readings: The Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain: Popular Pilgrimage and Visionary Landscape in Southeast Tibet, Oxford University Press, USA 1999 Toni Huber. The holy land reborn：Pilgrimage & the Tibetan reinvention of Buddhist India . The University of Chicago press.Chicago and London，2008. Yeh, Emily T. 2013. Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development.Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Collins, Dawn. 2014. “Presence in Tibetan Landscapes: Spirited Agency and Ritual Healing in Rebgong.” PhD diss., Cardiff University. Supplementary readings: Jinba, Tenzin. 2013. In the Land of the Eastern Queendom: The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan Border. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Yeh, T, Emily and Gaerrang: Pests, keystone species, and hungry ghosts: the Gesar epic and human-pika relations on the Tibetan Plateau. Cultural Geographies 1–18.2020 |
6 |
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Week 13 |
Geopolitics:Ladākh and Sino-Indian Civilization Corridor
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Required Readings: Brill's Tibetan Studies Library English 2008,Edited by Martijn van Beek , Edited by Fernanda Pirie Modern Ladakh : Anthropological Perspectives on Continuity and Change Supplementary readings: Peace and Conflict in Ladakh : The Construction of a Fragile Web of Order,2007 |
4 |
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Week14 |
Buddhism and Gender Studies：Dharma Protector Bandan Ram（དཔལ་ལྡན་ལྷ་མོ།）and Tibetan women intellectuals
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Required Readings: Diemberger, Hildegard 1993, Blood, Sperm,Soul and the mountain in Gendered Anthropology.ed.Teresa DelValle,London：Routledge. Janet Gyatso: 2015,Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet. Gyatso, Janet, and Hanna Havnevik, ed. 2005. Women in Tibet. New York: Columbia University Press. Makley, Charlene. Speaking Bitterness: Autobiography,History, and Mnemonic Politics on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier. Supplementary readings: Makley, Charlene. 2007. The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China. Berkeley: University of California Press. Abu-Lughod, Lila. 2008. Writing Women’s Worlds: Bedouin Stories. Berkeley: University of California Press. Gutschow, Kim. 2009. Being a Buddhist Nun. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. |
4 |
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Week 15 |
Multiple modernity in Tibet |
Required Readings: Jabb, Lama. 2015. Oral and Literary Continuities in Modern Tibetan Literature: The Inescapable Nation. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. Supplementary readings: Catanese, Alex John. 2019. Buddha in the Marketplace: The Commodification of Buddhist Objects in Tibet. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. |
4 |
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Week 16 |
Tibet Lectures |
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4 |
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Week 17 |
Second visit: Dalai Lama Foundation |
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4 |
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Week 18 |
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Presentations of your term paper ideas Term paper due－a 2,000 words essay on one of the above topics. |
6 |
1. Final report (score accounts for 40% of the total score)
This course has no mid-term exams and no final exams, but each group of students must cooperate to complete the final report
2. Usual grades(60% of the total score)
Class report / Class attendance rate, question and discussion situation and written experience report.
Abu-Lughod, Lila. 2008. Writing Women’s Worlds: Bedouin Stories. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Aziz, Barbara Nirmri 1978 Tibetan Frontier Families: Reflections of Three Generations from D'ing-ri. Durham: Carolina Academic Press.
Carrasco, Pedro,1959,Land And Polity In Tibet. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Dalai Lama. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 1997.
David Jackson, 2001, History of Tibet painting, Lhasa: Tibet people's publishing house.
Catanese, Alex John. 2019. Buddha in the Marketplace: The Commodification of Buddhist Objects in Tibet. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.
Tibetan Buddhism under Political Transformations
Collins, Dawn. 2014. “Presence in Tibetan Landscapes: Spirited Agency and Ritual Healing in Rebgong.” PhD diss., Cardiff University.
Diemberger, Hildegard 1993, Blood, Sperm,Soul and the mountain in Gendered Anthropology.ed.Teresa DelValle,London：Routledge.
Fabienne Jagou,2021,Gongga Laoren (1903-1997) : Her Role in the Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in Taiwan.
Goldstein, Melvyn C. & Matthew T. Kapstein ,eds.1998 Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet :Religious Revival and Cultural Identity. Berkeley, California : University of California Press.
Gutschow, Kim. 2009. Being a Buddhist Nun. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Giuseppe Tucci, 2001, Tibet archeology, translated by Hong Kong, Beijing: China Tibetan studies press.
Goldstein, Melvyn C., Dawei Sherap, and William R. Siebenschuh ,2004， A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa
Phüntso Wangye. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press
Goldstein, Melvyn C. & Matthew T. Kapstein ,eds.1998 Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet :Religious Revival and Cultural Identity. Berkeley,
California : University of California Press.
Geoffrey Samuel , 1993, Civilized Shamans: Buddhism in Tibetan Societies, Smithsonian Institution Press
Gyatso, Janet, and Hanna Havnevik, ed. 2005. Women in Tibet. New York: Columbia University Press.
Harris, Clare. 1999. In the Image of Tibet: Tibetan Painting after 1959. London: Reaktion Books Ltd.
Harris, Clare. 2012. The Museum on the Roof of the World: Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Jabb, Lama. 2015. Oral and Literary Continuities in Modern Tibetan Literature: The Inescapable Nation. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Jinba, Tenzin. 2013. In the Land of the Eastern Queendom: The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan Border. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Janet Gyatso: 2015,Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet.
Kapstein, Matthew The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism: Conversion, Contestation and Memory, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2000
Keyes, Charels F. & E. Valentine Daniel, 1983 Karma: an Anthropological Inquiry. Berkley, California: University of the California Press.
Levine, Nancy E.1988 The Dynamics of Polyandry: Kinship, Domesticity, and Population on the Tibetan Border. Chicago: the University of Chicago Press.
Luciano Petech, 2008, "the nobility and government of Tibet", translated by Shen Weirong and Song Liming, published by Deng Ruiling school and the center of Tibetan studies.
Lopez, Jr., Donald S. Prisoners of Shangri-La, Tibetan Buddhism and the West. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Makley, Charlene. 2018. The Battle for Fortune: State-led Development, Personhood and Power among Tibetans in China : Cornell University Press
Makley, Charlene. Speaking Bitterness: Autobiography,History, and Mnemonic Politics on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier.
Makley, Charlene. 2007. The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China. Berkeley: University of California Press.
McGranahan, Carole. 2003. ‘Empire and the Status of Tibet: British, Chinese, and Tibetan Negotiations, 1913-1934’. In The History of Tibet, Volume 3: The Tibetan Encounter with Modernity, edited by Alex McKay, 267-295.
Mumford, Stan Royal 1989 Himalayan Dialogue :Tibetan Lamas and Gurung Shamans in Nepal. Madison, Wisconsin: the University of Wisconsin Press.
Ortner, Sherry B 1970 Buddhism and Society: A Great Tradition and Its Burmese Vicissitudes. New York: Harper & Row.
Ortner, Sherry B. 1989 High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism. Princton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.Paul, Ellen Frankel, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul, eds.
Robert Beer, 2007, "Tibetan Buddhist symbols and utensils graphic", translated by Hong Hong, Beijing: China Tibetan studies press.
Schwieger, Peter. 2015. The Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China: A Political History of the Tibetan Institution of Reincarnation. New York: Columbia University Press.
Tucci,Gergoe，1990,Tibetan Painted Scrolls, Kyoto：Rinsen Book Co.,Ltd
Tsering Shakya, 1999, The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet.New York : Columbia University Press.
Tuttle, Gray 2005. Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China, Columbia University
Toni Huber. The Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain: Popular Pilgrimage and Visionary Landscape in Southeast Tibet, Oxford University Press, USA 1999
Toni Huber. The holy land reborn：Pilgrimage & the Tibetan reinvention of Buddhist India .The University of Chicago press.Chicago and London，2008.
Yeh, Emily T. 2013. Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development.Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Yeh, T, Emily and Gaerrang: Pests, keystone species, and hungry ghosts: the Gesar epic and human-pika relations on the Tibetan Plateau. Cultural Geographies 1–18.2020
Brill's Tibetan Studies Library English
2008,Edited by Martijn van Beek , Edited by Fernanda Pirie Modern Ladakh : Anthropological Perspectives on Continuity and Change
Peace and Conflict in Ladakh : The Construction of a Fragile Web of Order,2007