Description du projet
Retracer l’identité et le rôle historique du Bhoutan en Asie du Sud-Est
Depuis les années 1800, l’engagement intense des maîtres bouddhistes bhoutanais dans la politique a été une caractéristique fondamentale des relations diplomatiques du Bhoutan avec le Tibet et le Raj britannique. Le projet BhutldBuddh du programme Actions Marie Skłodowska-Curie étudie la construction de l’identité et de la nation du Bhoutan en analysant une collection de sources textuelles bhoutanaises et tibétaines non traduites à ce jour. Les résultats feront la lumière sur l’histoire religieuse et politique du Bhoutan depuis les années 1800, qui a conduit au modèle de développement durable actuel du bonheur national brut (BNB), une approche holistique visant à mettre en œuvre le bonheur et le bien-être de la population. Pour la première fois, ce projet abordera systématiquement le rôle historique du Bhoutan dans la connexion entre l’Asie du Sud, le Raj britannique et l’Asie de l’Est du point de vue bhoutanais.
Objectif
This research project is an investigation of identity- and nation-building in eighteenth-century Bhutan with a particular focus on the agency of Buddhist masters as important diplomats and Bhutan's entangled history with Tibet. This will enable a novel understanding of Bhutan's religious and political history, particularly its Buddhism-induced development model of Gross National Happiness (GNH) that has not yet received systematic historical analysis in religious studies in Europe despite its global popularity as an example of alternative sustainable economic models. Furthermore, for the first time, Bhutan's historical role in linking South Asia, the British Raj, and East Asia will be systematically addressed. The research output will significantly advance both fields - that of Tibetology and religious studies. The innovative research design combines historical-philological methods by analyzing a thus far untranslated corpus of Bhutanese/Tibetan primary sources with a theoretical framework from religious studies focusing on identity and social differentiation. Therefore, the project is in its methodology, output, and impact inter-disciplinary. The researcher will produce a draft for a single monograph publication for habilitation in Germany. The proposed project involves as the researcher a German Tibetologist trained in Germany, Canada, India, and Bhutan reintegrating to Germany to work with a religious/Buddhist studies scholar at Leipzig University. This will enable substantial training for the researcher in religious studies and impactful two-way knowledge exchange between the researcher and the host institution due to the international experience of the researcher. An intersectional secondment at The British Library Endangered Archives Programme (London) will provide further Tibetological training in (digital) archival work, palaeography, and codicology, and produce globally accessible research data about this digitized Bhutanese/Tibetan primary source corpus.
Champ scientifique
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régime de financement
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinateur
04109 Leipzig
Allemagne