ERC Starting Grant · 2025
The Narrative Foundations of Tibetan Buddhist Culture
Between the 11th and 14th centuries, Buddhist communities on the Tibetan Plateau crafted a national charter myth that was to have immense cultural staying power. The narrative literature that successfully promoted this myth would inflect the cultural, religious, and political landscape of Tibet even into the 21st century, and greatly impact Mongolia, the Himalayas, and other Asian Buddhist communities as well. Yet the genesis and even original content of this literature has now turned out, thanks to the PI’s efforts, to be poorly understood, which greatly hinders progress in a number of fields. Using newly identified and until now unstudied manuscripts, we will: 1) establish a sound…
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