Chinese and Tibetan influences on Tangut art and religion, with particular reference to esoteric BuddhismSymposium under the Ford Foundation St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences 25-27 April, 2007 Wednesday 25 April 9:30 Opening ceremony Dr Irina Popova, Director of IOS: Welcoming speech Professor Dr E. I. Kychanov, Senior Researcher of IOS: The Tangut collection of IOS 10:30-12:00 Session 1 Chair: Dr K. U. Solonin, Dr Amarendra Nath 1. Dr M. I. Vorobjeva-Desyatovskaya: Tibetan manuscripts brought by P.K.Kozlov from Kharakhoto 2. Dr В. Mani: Rock art of Ladakh and connections with Central Asian Buddhist sites 13:45-15:15 Session 2 Chair: Dr K. F. Samosuk 3. Dr Huang Yanjun: Preliminary studies on the Tangut sutras held at the Bibliotheque nationale de France 4. Professor Dr E. I. Kychanov: Tibet, the Tibetans and the great Xi-Xia state (982-1227) 15:30-16:30 Session 3 Chair: Dr Shen Weirong 5. Dr Du Jianlu: An Outline of the Tangut Manuscripts Collected in China 6. Anastasia Kolosova: Russian publications on Tangut studies in the twentieth century. 16:30-17:30 Viewing of manuscripts at IOS Thursday 26 April 9:30-11:00 Session 4 Chair: Dr Sam van Schaik 7. Dr Shen Weirong: Tibetan Tantric Buddhism in the Tangut Kingdom 8. Dr H. P. Negi: Tibetan Influence on the Tangut Buddhist Art and Religion 11:30-13.00 Session 5 Chair: Dr Mani 9. Dr Madhu Khanna: Cinacara: the journey of Goddess Тага from China to India 10. Dr K. U. Solonin: Mahamudra lineage in the Tangut State 14:45-18:00 Session 6 in the State Hermitage Museum 11. Dr K. F. Samosuk: The cult of the Vaishravana in painting from Kharakhoto: the mythology, iconography, stylistic Viewing of the Tangut and Central Asian collections at the Hermitage Friday 27 April 10:30-12:00 Session 7 12. Alastair Morrison: Discussion of the web resource for the Ford Foundation project 13. Dr M.I.Vorobjeva-Desyatovskaya: Languages and scripts of Central Asian texts (with viewing of the manuscripts of the collection of IOS) |
