Descripción del proyecto
Explorar los textos himalayos de la colección de van Manen
Johan van Manen fue un tibetólogo neerlandés que dejó una importante colección de textos y objetos tibetanos e himalayos tras su fallecimiento en 1943. La Biblioteca de la Universidad de Leiden recibió más de mil quinientos textos, mientras que el Museo Volkenkunde de Leiden alberga los objetos del Himalaya. Financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, el equipo del proyecto VAN MANEN estudiará los valiosos pero a menudo ignorados textos y artefactos (únicos entre los textos de la literatura tibetana) reunidos entre 1920 y 1940. En el proyecto se ofrecerá una nueva perspectiva sobre la colección de van Manen mediante el análisis de sus raros manuscritos, los objetos materiales, los escritos marginales no documentados y las notables autobiografías en lengua tibetana encargadas por van Manen, lo que permitirá una exploración en profundidad sin precedentes de las autobiografías de la gente corriente del Himalaya.
Objetivo
This project offers an ambitious study of an important, yet mostly forgotten, collection of Himalayan texts and artifacts collected between 1920 and 1940. It will, for the first time, provide a view of the Van Manen collection through a study of its rare manuscripts, the material objects, undocumented marginal writings, and the unique Tibetan language autobiographies by ordinary Himalayan people commissioned by Van Manen.
This collection, held in the Leiden University Library, contains a large number of Tibetan and Himalayan texts, collected by Johan van Manen who lived in India. After his death in 1943 a large part of his personal collection became housed at the university, totaling more than 1500 mostly Tibetan texts. He also collected Himalayan artifacts, now stored separately from the texts, in Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden. The texts and artifacts reflect the collector's interest in the lived religion and the lives of Himalayan people.
The project's goal is the examination of the van Manen Collection as a whole using historical, ethnographic and philological methods, and by employing Digital Humanities methods through which the origins of the texts and artifacts can be traced, mapped, and be made available, linking them to other editions in online databases as well as to local Tibetan archives.
The main aim is to get an understanding of the proliferation, usage, and presence of religious and ritual literature and artifacts in the greater Darjeeling area in the first half of the 20th century and, by extension, their religious milieus 1). Many of the texts are unica in Tibetan literature - and as they are mostly unstudied, they merit a thorough examination 2). The broader question is how to 'read', and engage with, a multi- media collection curated by one single collector, and how to understand the 'collection formation' process 3). The project results will contribute to the analysis of multi-media collections of non-Western literature and material culture 4).
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitución de acogida
2311 EZ Leiden
Países Bajos