Development and evolution of a network based on the lineage of Kadampa monasteries
Topic
Kadampa monasteries were established in succession beginning in the mid-eleventh century, mainly in the Penyul (’phan yul) area, and they developed independently following master–disciple relationships or teaching lineages until the subsequent rise of the Geluk school. According to Iuchi (2010), the Lo monastery (lo dgon pa), which was established by Chenngapa Tsultrimbar (spyan snga pa tshul khrims ’bar, 1038–1103), increased the number of branch monasteries based on the master–disciple relationship, forming their own network. This also revealed that after the Geluk school, these networks were replaced and unified into a system centered on the reincarnated lama, Losempa Trulku (lo sems dpa’ sprul sku).
In this talk, I will discuss the networks of the Kadam period in greater depth, taking the example of the Lo monastery, which was examined in my previous study.
Speaker
IUCHI Maho is Associate Professor of the Hakubi Center for Advanced Research and Graduate School of Letters of Kyoto University, Japan. She received her PhD from Otani University in 2008. Before and while researching at Kyoto University, she was also a visiting scholar at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Harvard University, Qinghai Minzu University, and Wolfson College, Oxford University. Her main areas of expertise are the history of Tibet, in particular, the mediaeval and Phyi dar period in Tibet. She published articles and books, such as An Early Text of Rwa sgreng Monastery: The Rgyal ba’i dben gnas rwa sgreng gi bshad pa nyi ma’i ’od zer from Havard Oriental Series and Tibetan Texts from Khara-khoto in the Stein Collection of the British Library with Tsuguhito Takeuchi from Toyo Bunko.
TibSchol
This lecture is being organized by the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (IKGA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) with support from the project "The Dawn of Tibetan Buddhist Scholasticism (11th-13th c.)“ (TibSchol). This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 101001002).
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