Description du projet
Enquête sur le développement précoce de la tradition scolastique bouddhiste tibétaine
Que peuvent nous apprendre les nouvelles sources manuscrites sur la phase de formation (XIe-XIIIe siècles) de la tradition scolastique bouddhiste tibétaine? Le projet TibSchol, financé par le CER, intégrera l’objectif contextuel de reconstitution du paysage scolastique tibétain et l’objectif conceptuel d’exploration de la méthode scolastique tibétaine. Plus précisément, il recensera les réseaux de scolastiques tibétains entre le XIe et le XIIIe siècle et dressera la carte du corpus des premières écoles. Le projet examinera également les caractéristiques fondamentales de la boîte à outils de la scolastique tibétaine et étudiera la manière dont elle était appliquée à l’herméneutique et à l’argumentation. Cela facilitera l’étude de la circulation des textes et de la propagation des connaissances dans cette phase influente de l’histoire intellectuelle du Tibet.
Objectif
TIBSCHOL will be the first wide-ranging exploration of the formative phase (11th–13th c.) of the Tibetan Buddhist scholastic tradition. Its ground-breaking study of an exceptionally active period of Tibetan scholarly creativity will integrate Tibetan thinkers into world intellectual history and the global history of philosophy.
The revival of Buddhist culture in Tibet in the late 10th/11th c., marked by an intense engagement with the sophisticated tradition of Indian Buddhist scholarship, set in motion the development of new tools of reasoned analysis and their application in synthesizing exegeses of Indian Buddhist soteriological and philosophical literature and in newly devised textual genres. TIBSCHOL integrates the contextual aim of reconstructing the early Tibetan scholastic landscape with the conceptual aim of exploring the Tibetan scholastic method. This involves:
- Mapping the networks of Tibetan scholastics in the 11th–13th c.
- Charting the early scholastic corpus
- Investigating seminal features of the early Tibetan scholastic toolkit
- Studying how this toolkit was applied in hermeneutics and argumentation
TIBSCHOL takes advantage of the recent surfacing of a large amount of early scholastic writings in manuscript form, advocating a broad-scale approach to this corpus that goes beyond previous studies both in qualitative and in quantitative terms. Introducing an original methodology that systematically exploits the high degree of intertextuality displayed in these scholastic treatises (typically containing critical discussions of others’ views), the project articulates personal networks, intellectual networks, and intellectual profiles.
This will pave the way for studying the circulation of texts and knowledge propagation, as well as the continuities and ruptures in a particularly enduring tradition of methodical and systematic learning in human history, as forms of scholasticism continue to survive in Tibetan monastic contexts to the present day.
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ERC-COG - Consolidator GrantInstitution d’accueil
1010 Wien
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