Registration: To register, please send an email to reading.Tibetan.rituals@gmail.com explaining your educational background and motivation for attending the workshop (max. 200 words). You will be notified of the registration within a week of submission.
The workshop intends to bring together scholars and students with a strong interest in exploring the extensive but largely understudied Tibetan literature related to early ritual practices, which appear contiguous with those still cultivated nowadays on the fringes of the cultural Tibetosphere among non-Tibetan-speaking communities. To foster research on old Tibetan ritual traditions, the workshop offers intensive reading sessions focused on a small selection of texts or passages from different historical periods and distinct, but usually unknown, places of origin. Despite the texts’ varying cultural backgrounds, we will look for their common linguistic, textual, and stylistic features or shared literary motifs to uncover potential influences of cultural contact.