Buddhism scholar wins grant to study in Mongolia
Buddhism scholar wins grant to study in Mongolia.
Buddhism scholar wins grant to study in Mongolia. Matthew King assistant professor of religious studies at the University of California, Riverside has been awarded a $37,500 grant from the Social Science Research Council to study Eurasian “interpretative communities” that brought Buddhist literati from the Mongolian steppe and the Himalayan plateau together with European and Slavic scholars researching topics like Buddhist history and Altaic ethnology. The grant will enable Prof. King to spend four months this year in Mongolia, where he will work in the archives of the National Library of Mongolia and Gadantegchinlen Monastery in capital city UB. Professor King will examine thousands of pages written by four monastic and revolutionary intellectuals, as well as the works of Euro-Russian intellectuals and the archive of The New Mirror, a secular newspaper published in the Khalkha dialect during the imperial-socialist transition. The paper featured lively debates between progressive and conservative monks, scientists and revolutionaries from across Eurasia on issues as diverse as the paleography of Turkish burial mounds, the potential of scientific education for reformed monastic curricula, and the defining features of a “national” pan-Mongol Buddhism.
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