English summary: Founded in the late 10th century CE, Khorchag monastery in Purang, Western Tibet (Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, PR China), is one of the three earliest Buddhist monasteries of historical Western Tibet and, due to its ancient sacred artistic heritage, renowned all over Tibet. The detailed visual documentation of the architecture, wall-paintings, sculptures and ritual paraphernalia extant in Khorchag, as well as the intimate visual documentation of ritual and festival traditions, provides rich and to a large degree new information and substantial study material for visitors and students of this important place. Most of this material is recorded, presented and discussed in this volume for the first time. Including oral and written accounts of relationships in pre-modern periods as well as reports on recent achievements in preserving and restoring specific religious and cultural traditions, this volume gives an overview of the history, socio-economic organisation, building structure, art history and religious traditions of this monastery. It also provides insight into the cultural heritage of the village population, such as local song and dance traditions and performances of religious plays.  German description: Das Kloster Khortschag (Tibetisch 'Khor chags, Chinesisch Kuojia) in Purang, Westtibet (Präfektur Ngari, Autonome Region, VR China), gegr|ndet zu Ende des 10. Jahrhunderts unserer Zeitrechnung, ist eines der drei ältesten buddhistischen Klöster des historischen Westtibet. In der Nähe des heiligen Berges Kailas gelegen, ist das Kloster bis heute in ganz Tibet wegen seines Erbes alter sakraler Kunst ber|hmt. Die visuelle Dokumentation seiner Architektur und der in Khortschag erhaltenen Wandmalereien, Skulpturen und Ritualgegenstände sowie der religiösen und festlichen Traditionen, die in diesem Band mit grossteils neuen Informationen zum ersten Mal vorgestellt und erläutert werden, bietet reichhaltiges Studienmaterial f|r alle, die diesen historisch bedeutenden Ort besuchen oder studieren. Mit m|ndlichen und schriftlichen Berichten zu den Verhältnissen in vormodernen Zeiten sowie Angaben zur Erhaltung und Wiederherstellung der spezifischen religiösen und kulturellen Traditionen vermittelt dieser Band einen Überblick |ber die Geschichte, sozio-ökonomische Organisation, Baukultur, Kunstgeschichte und religiösen Traditionen dieses Klosters und gibt Einblick in die kulturellen Traditionen der Dorfbevölkerung, wie zum Beispiel Lied- und Tanztraditionen und die Auff|hrung religiöser St|cke.

Khorchag: An Overview of its History and Culture (Denkschriften Der Philosophisch-Historischen Klasse) (English, Tibetan and Chinese Edition)

Arts & Photography

Jahoda, Christian

Sutherland, Patrick

Gyalbo, Tsering

Kalantari, Christiane

History & Criticism

Austrian Academy of Sciences Press

This study reconstructs for the first time the development of society in Spiti and in Upper Kinnaur (Himachal Pradesh, India) over a long historical period on the basis of one of its central structures, that is, socio-economic organisation. The focus of this study is the peasantry of Tabo village in Spiti Valley and the adjacent Tibetan-speaking areas in the northwestern Himalayas. From a methodological perspective this book is primarily the result of a combination of social anthropological fieldwork and the analysis of historical and contemporary written sources (partly from the holdings of the over 1,000-year-old Buddhist monastery of Tabo). The theoretical concepts and perspectives of this work, building at the core on peasant theory models, are considerably developed further by including and integrating findings from social anthropological research on Tibet, in particular the fundamental importance of religious institutions such as Buddhist monasteries and temples for the structuring of the social order. The account of the ethnography of the region forms together with the investigation of the system of land ownership in association with the system of taxes and dues a central component of the analysis of the historical and current relations between the power-holders and the agricultural producers (peasants). It is also in this context that the delineation of the political history of the region which is undertaken here for the first time plays an essential role. Moreover, in altogether 12 excursuses selected key topics (such as administrative and taxation system, corvée labour, regional, supraregional and transnational wool trade, economy of Buddhist monastic communities and monasteries, development of population figures) are studied from a strong comparative perspective.

Socio-econonomic Organisation in a Border Area of Tibetan Culture: Tabo, Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India (Denkschriften ... Zur Sozialanthropologie, Band 21)

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

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