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The Third International Seminar of Young Tibetologists : Abstract Book View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Kobe City University of Foreign Studies Institutional Repository 神戸市外国語大学 学術情報リポジトリ The third international seminar of young tibetologists : abstract book 著者 The committee of the 3rd ISYT page range 1-81 year 2012-09-03 URL http://id.nii.ac.jp/1085/00001047/ Creative Commons : 表示 - 非営利 - 改変禁止 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/deed.ja 第三回 若手チベット学研究者国際会議 予稿集 The Third International Seminar of Young Tibetologists Abstract Book 9 2012 Mon 3 7Fri Kobe City University of Foreign Studies UNITY 9-1, Gakuen-higashi-machi, Nishi-ku, Kobe, Japan [email protected] http://www.isyt.org/ KCUFS 1 Contents The Committee of the 3rd ISYT ............................................................................................. 1 Keynote Speech and Workshop ............................................................................................... 6 Activities and Contact ................................................................................................................... 7 Abstracts ............................................................................................................................................ 9 Ayllón, Fran ........................................................................................................................................ 10 Historiographical Trustworthiness in the Narrative on Gri gum btsan po: a Case for a More Inclusive- Less Intrusive Research Approach Bai saizangcao .................................................................................................................................... 11 The kinship terms in the Tibetan Tsho-ba community—a case study of Dpav-ris-sum-mdo Village Ban, Shin’ichiro.................................................................................................................................. 12 The Histrical Role of the Tibetan Language in the Political Relations between Ming and Inner Asia Bell, Christopher Paul ...................................................................................................................... 13 The Ritual Evolution of the Nechung Protector Bessho, Yusuke ................................................................................................................................... 14 A Competed Landscape of Mountain: the Ritual Territory of “feng shui” and “yul lha” Cult in the East Frontier Region of Amdo Bischoff, Jeannine .............................................................................................................................. 15 Serfdom in Tibet? − A transcultural analysis using official documents Choi, Kyeong-jin ................................................................................................................................ 16 rNgog and gTsang nag pa’s Criticism of Dharmottara’s Interpretation of the Causelessness of De- struction Czaja, Olaf ........................................................................................................................................... 17 Tracing the Old in the New: Rnying ma pa teachings and treasures in the ’Bri gung pa school Dangsong Namgyal ............................................................................................................................ 18 A comparative study on the difference between Buddhist and Bonpo doctrines Danzheng Jia (Tam drin Gyal Tagrig) .......................................................................................... 19 Preliminary Research on the Second Golden Throne of la mo and a myes yul lha in Khri Ka Doney, Lewis ....................................................................................................................................... 20 Prefiguring and Refiguring in the Inscriptions of Khri Srong lde brtsan Dotson, Brandon ................................................................................................................................ 21 Describing Early Tibetan Inscriptions Drukmo khar ...................................................................................................................................... 22 The witness of Milarepa’s religious thought----Taking the nine-storey Buddha Pavilion of Hezuo, Amdo Tibetan Area as an Example Duola (Dolha) ...................................................................................................................................... 23 A study of the role of Tibetan function words in semantic understanding Ebihara, Shiho .................................................................................................................................... 24 The Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Colloquial and Written Tibetan Erhard, Franz Xaver ........................................................................................................................ 25 Remembering history in Amdo 2 Guo Maoji ............................................................................................................................................ 26 Changes of traffic, resident status and regional cultural transposition：the case study of Golok Ti- betan autonomous prefecture Heimbel, Jörg...................................................................................................................................... 27 Historical Overview of the Relationship between the Kingdom of Glo bo (Mustang) and the Ngor Tradition Hidaka, Shun ...................................................................................................................................... 28 “Modernization” and Buddhism as Found in Dalai Lama 13th (1876-1933)’s Documents Hofer, Theresia ................................................................................................................................... 29 Tibetan amchi’s concerns with Childbirth ? Voices from the Field Hui, Maggie Mei Kei ......................................................................................................................... 30 Mythical construct in Temple Architecture at the borderland of Kyirong Ikejiri, Yoko ......................................................................................................................................... 31 Jasag Lama in Central Tibet Iselin, Lilian ........................................................................................................................................ 32 Mobile technologies and Nomadic Space: Spatial and Social transformations in Pastoralist Amdo of Tibet Iwao, Kazushi ..................................................................................................................................... 33 Frontier soldiers and the taxation of the Old Tibetan Empire Iwata, Keisuke .................................................................................................................................... 34 The negotiations about the Amdo Tibetans among the Qing, the government of the Dalai Lama and the Khoshut in the middle of the seventeenth century Jansen, Berthe .................................................................................................................................... 35 Monastic guidelines (bca’ yig) as sources for social history Kalsang Norbu Gurung .................................................................................................................... 36 Unsolved ‘bon’ puzzle: a survey of the classical definitions of the word bon‘ ’ Kano, Kazuo ....................................................................................................................................... 37 Two Folios from a Manuscript of rNgog Blo ldan shes rab’s Topical Outline of the Bodhicaryāvatāra Kim, Hanung ...................................................................................................................................... 38 Sum pa Ye shes dpal ‘byor and the civil war of eighteenth-century Tibet Kobayashi, Ryosuke .......................................................................................................................... 39 An analytical study of the Tibetan Record of the Simla conference (1913-1914): Shing stag rgya gar ’phags pa’i yul du dbyin bod rgya gsum chings mol mdzad lugs kun gsal me long Komatsubara, Yuri ............................................................................................................................ 40 The political relationship between Tibet and the Qing dynasty in the latter half of the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries: Based on an analysis of how the bka’ blon were chosen Konishi, Kengo ................................................................................................................................... 41 Between “indigenous religion” and “religious minorities”: Bonpos’ attempts for the continuation of “tradition” in contemporary China Kumagai, Seiji .................................................................................................................................... 42 A study on a religious minority in Bhutan: actual condition of Sa skya pa school Lengzhi Duojie (Lhundrub Dorje) ................................................................................................. 43 A Case Study of Changes in the Daily Life of Monks in Ditsa Monastery, East Qinghai Liu, Cuilan ........................................................................................................................................... 44 The Role of Music in Buddhism: A Study on the
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