Description du projet
Explorer les textes himalayens de la collection Van Manen
Johan van Manen était un tibétologue néerlandais qui, après sa mort en 1943, a laissé une importante collection de textes et d’objets tibétains et himalayens. La bibliothèque de l’université de Leyde a hérité de plus de 1 500 textes, tandis que le Museum Volkenkunde de Leyde conserve les objets de l’Himalaya. Financé par le Conseil européen de la recherche, le projet VAN MANEN étudiera ces textes et artefacts précieux, mais souvent négligés, uniques parmi les textes de la littérature tibétaine rassemblés entre 1920 et 1940. Le projet offrira une nouvelle perspective sur la collection Van Manen en analysant les manuscrits rares, les objets matériels, les écrits marginaux non documentés et les autobiographies remarquables en langue tibétaine commissionnées par Van Manen, ce qui permettra une exploration approfondie sans précédent des autobiographies d’habitants ordinaires de l’Himalaya.
Objectif
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).
Champ scientifique
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Thème(s)
Régime de financement
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitution d’accueil
2311 EZ Leiden
Pays-Bas