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SUMMARY:Introduction to Speculative Thinking: An Unidentified Work in Tang
 ut Translation of Maja Jangchup Tsöndrü (d. 1185\, Tib. rMa bya Byangchu
 b brtson 'grus)?
DTSTART:20210610T130000Z
DTEND:20210610T150000Z
DTSTAMP:20260527T100729Z
UID:introduction-speculative-thinking-unidentifie-en-1-7634@ceres.rub.de
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DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture by Zhouyang Ma (Cambridge\, MA\, Harvard Univers
 ity)\n\nThe lecture is available live at Zoom. Please pre-register here u
 ntil 8 June 2021\, 12 pm.\n\nAmong the many Tangut Buddhist texts discover
 ed in Karakhoto there is one entitled sew2 ˑjij1 ˑo2 śjij1 dźju1 sji2 
 lju̱2 tshjịj2 -------- [The Ornament which Clarifies the Introduction t
 o Speculative Thinking]\, recorded as Tang. 314 in catalogues of Tangut Bu
 ddhist texts. The work is attributed to Master Bodhi-Diligence of Central 
 Tibet (Tang. lji2 phə1 gu2 lhjịj2 po1 tjɨj1 ˑjɨr2 dzji̱j2 --------)
 \, which attests to its Tibetan origin. The fact that several fragments of
  different manuscripts of this work have been identified bespeaks the popu
 larity of this work in the Tangut Tangut Empire (ca. 1038–1227\, in Chin
 ese sources known as Xixia 西夏). This work\, consisting of at least eig
 ht volumes in its Tangut translation\, was presumably a long Tibetan treat
 ise. With regard to the authorship\, we are probably on relatively solid g
 round to argue that this work was composed by the renowned Kadam (Tib. bka
 ’ gdams pa) master Maja Jangchup Tsöndrü (d. 1185\, Tib. rMa bya Byang
  chub brtson ’grus). Therefore\, the Tangut translation sheds important 
 light on the Buddhist histories of the Tangut Empire and Tibet during the 
 12th and 13th centuries\, especially on the transmission and assimilation 
 of the early Kadam scholasticism. Remarkable features of the fragments\, s
 uch as the Chinese numerals and Tibetan letters alongside the Tangut lines
 \, reveal to some degree the practice of such scholasticism in the Tangut 
 Empire as well.\n\nZhouyang Ma is currently a PhD. candidate in Inner Asia
 n and Altaic Studies\, Harvard University. His dissertation project examin
 es the rise of Tibetan Buddhism in the Tangut Empire in the 12th and 13th 
 centuries\, focusing on the transmission of the Sangphu (Tib. gsang phu) s
 cholasticism. He has been trained as a scholar in Tibetan Studies ever sin
 ce his undergraduate education. He also became interested in Tangut Studie
 s because the tons of Tangut manuscripts embody the gate to a fascinating 
 world of intellectual exchanges\, cultural innovations\, and social plural
 ity.\n\nTo join the lecture\, please register at  https://ruhr-uni-bochum
 .zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwldO6uqTIqHtaXYA5_-ySr4k5dtmhJNgK3 until 8th o
 f June 2021. Meeting-ID: 988 3767 9042\, Security code: 000002\n\n 
LOCATION:Online Event
URL:https://buddhistroad.ceres.rub.de/zh/events_zh/introduction-speculativ
 e-thinking-unidentifie-en-1/
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