Opis projektu
Badanie himalajskich tekstów z kolekcji Van Manena
Johan van Manen był niderlandzkim tybetologiem, który pozostawił po sobie znaczącą kolekcję tekstów i obiektów dotyczących Tybetu i Himalajów, gdy zmarł w 1943 roku. Biblioteka Uniwersytetu w Lejdzie otrzymała ponad 1 500 tekstów, a tamtejsze Muzeum Volkenkunde przechowuje himalajskie artefakty. Finansowany przez Europejską Radę ds. Badań Naukowych projekt VAN MANEN zbada cenne, jednak dotychczas pomijane teksty i artefakty, stanowiące wyjątkowy zbiór tybetańskich tekstów literackich zgromadzonych w latach 1920-1940. Badacze spojrzą na kolekcję Van Manena z nowego punktu widzenia poprzez analizę rzadkich rękopisów, obiektów materialnych, nieudokumentowanych zapisków na marginesach marginalnych i godnych uwagi autobiografii w języku tybetańskim zleconych przez Van Manena, co pozwoli na wyjątkową i dogłębną analizę autobiografii mieszkańców tych rejonów.
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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).
Dziedzina nauki
Program(-y)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Temat(-y)
System finansowania
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstytucja przyjmująca
2311 EZ Leiden
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