Dear visitors,
please note that our National Research Network "The Cultural History of the Western Himalaya from the 8th Century (S98)" - generously sponsored by the Austrian Science Fund - has ended on June 30th 2013. For that reason this website will no longer be updated on a regular basis.
For information on our ongoing research, events and activities please refer to the website of our Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Documentation of Inner and South Asian Cultural History (CIRDIS).
Books and Edited Volumes
Tropper, K., Klimburg-Salter, D., Jahoda, C. (eds) (2007), Text, Image and Song in Transdisciplinary Dialogue. Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Oxford 2003. Vol. 7. Brill. Leiden – Boston.
Tropper, K. (2008), The Founding Inscription in the gSer khaṅ of Lalung (Spiti, Himachal Pradesh). Library of Tibetan Works and Archives. Dharamsala.
Tropper, K., Scherrer-Schaub, C. (eds) (in press), Tibetan Inscriptions. Proceedings of a Panel Held at the 12th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Vancouver 2010.
Articles
Scherrer-Schaub, C. and Bonani, G. (2008), Establishing a Typology of the Old Tibetan Manuscripts. A Multidisciplinary Approach. In: D. Klimburg-Salter, J. Liang, H. Tauscher, Y. Zhou (eds): The Cultural History of Western Tibet. Recent Research from the China Tibetology Research Center and the University of Vienna. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 71. China Tibetology Research Center, Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien, Universität Wien. Beijing, Wien, 299–337.
Scherrer-Schaub, C. (2010), Considérations sur le travail de traduction et d'édition des textes indiens au Tibet. In: A. Chayet et al. (eds): Edition, éditions. L'écrit au Tibet, évolution et devenir. Indus Verlag. München, 307-320.
Scherrer.Schaub, C. (in press), Classifying, Questioning and Interpreting Tibetan Inscriptions. In: K. Tropper, C. Scherrer-Schaub (eds): Tibetan Inscriptions. Proceedings of a Panel Held at the 12th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies.
Steinkellner, E. (2007), Introduction. Trans-disciplinary Research in the Western Himalayas. In: D. Klimburg-Salter, K. Tropper, C. Jahoda (eds): Text, Image and Song in Transdisciplinary Dialogue. Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Oxford 2003. Vol. 7. Brill. Leiden – Boston, 1–4.
Tropper, K. (2007), Tibetische Epigraphik. Mani-Mauern und Stifter-Inschriften. Ursache & Wirkung 60, 60–61.
Tropper, K. (2007), Tibetische Epigraphik, Teil 2. Die Stifterinschrift aus Khar im Pin-Tal (Spiti, Himachal Pradesh). Ursache & Wirkung 62, 58–59.
Tropper, K. (2007), The Buddha-vita in the skor lam chen mo at Zha lu Monastery. In: B. Kellner, H. Krasser et al. (eds): Pramāṇakīrtiḥ. Papers Dedicated to Ernst Steinkellner on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 70.1 and 70.2. Wien: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien, Universität Wien, 941-973.
Tropper, K. (2007), The Historical Inscription in the Gsum brtsegs Temple at Wanla, Ladakh. In: D. Klimburg-Salter, K. Tropper, C. Jahoda (eds): Text, Image and Song in Transdisciplinary Dialogue. Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Oxford 2003. Vol. 7. Brill. Leiden – Boston, 105–150.
Tropper, K. (2008), Tibetan Inscriptions with Excerpts from Kanjur and Tanjur Texts. In: D. Klimburg-Salter, J. Liang, H. Tauscher, Y. Zhou (eds): The Cultural History of Western Tibet. Recent Research from the China Tibetology Research Center and the University of Vienna. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 71. China Tibetology Research Center, Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien, Universität Wien. Beijing, Wien, 164–172 (Chin.) and 363–370 (Engl.).
Tropper, K. (2008), New Evidence on the ‘Renovation Inscription’ at Tabo Monastery. Rivista di Studi Sudasiatici III, 181–200.
Tropper, K. (2009), “A Thousand Maṇis in Immutable Stone”. A Donor Inscription at Nako Village (Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh). In: J. Bray, E. De Rossi Filibeck (eds): Mountains, Monasteries and Mosques. Recent Research on Ladakh and the Western Himalaya. Proceedings of the 13th Colloquium of the International Association for Ladakh Studies. Supplemento No. 2 alla “Rivista degli Studi Orientali”. Nueva serie. Roma, 87-96.
Tropper, K. (2010), The Caityapradakṣiṇagāthā Inscription in Alchi. A Valuable Witness for Kanjur Studies. (With an Appendix by Gudrun Melzer.) Berliner Indologische Studien 19, 15-70.
Tropper, K. (2010), Inscriptions and Captions in the Gu ru lha khang at Nako, Kinnaur: In: E. Lo Bue, C. Luczanits (eds): Proceedings of the Eleventh Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Königswinter 2006. Andiast 2010: International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, 143-174.
Tropper, K. (2012), Inscriptions and Captions of the Buddha-vita in Pang gra phug. In: A. Heller (ed.): The Arts of Tibetan Painting. Recent Research on Manuscripts, Murals and Thangkas of Tibet, the Himalayas and Mongolia, 11th -18th century. (Online publication: http://asianart.com/articles/tropper/index.html)
Tropper, K. (in press), The Buddha-vita in the White Temple of Tsaparang. In: K. Tropper, C. Scherrer-Schaub (eds): Tibetan Inscriptions. Proceedings of a Panel Held at the 12th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Vancouver 2010.
Tropper, K. (in press), Epigraphic Evidence. In Tsering Gyalpo et al.: Khorchag / ’Khor chags / Kejia. (Trilingual Publication in English, Tibetan and Chinese).
Tropper, K., Scherrer-Schaub, C. (accepted for publication), Of Epigraphic Palimpsests and Similar Phenomena. In: P. Mc Allister, H. Krasser, C. Scherrer-Schaub (eds): Cultural Flows Across the Western Himalaya.
Tropper, K. (submitted for publication), The Inscription in the Lo tsa ba lha khang of Kanji, Ladakh. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens.
Tropper, K., Scherrer-Schaub, C. (forthcoming 2013), Rulers, Translators and Pandits: On Some Murals and Captions in the Lo tsa ba lha khang of Riba (mNga’ ris). In: Klimburg-Salter, D., Forte, E., Huo, W. Liang, J. and Sheng, W., Tauscher, H., Zhang, C., Zhang, Y. (eds) (forthcoming 2013), Proceedings of the Symposium: “The Art and Cultural History of Central and Western Tibet”,Vienna, 6th–7th April 2011.