Berounský ****************************************************************************************** * Doc. Daniel Berounský, Ph.D ****************************************************************************************** E-mail: daniel.berounsky(zavinac)ff.cuni.cz [ MAIL "daniel.berounsky(zavinac)ff.cuni.cz"] Seminar of Mongolian and Tibetan Studies, Associate Professor, Director of the Institute ****************************************************************************************** * Academic interests ****************************************************************************************** Tibetan history, religions and literature The published research comprises case studies of spirit-mediums from North-Eastern Tibet, Buddhist rituals, origins of the tradition of Tibetan reincarnated masters, studies of the deities in Tibet, Tibetan literary traditions concerning afterlife and history of Ngawa; t of the recent wave of self-immolations in Tibet. ****************************************************************************************** * Education ****************************************************************************************** 1993-2000 MA, The Hussite Theological Faculty of Charles University, Judaism and Study of 2000-2005  Ph.D, Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles U dissertation theses: Jamantaka Tantra in Myth, Legend and Ritual 20014  habilitation, Comenius University, Bratislava (Oriental languages and cultures) ****************************************************************************************** * Employment ****************************************************************************************** 2004-2009           researcher, Institute of South and Central Asia 2000, 2002, 2004               lecturer, The Hussite Theological Faculty, Charles Universi 2004      lecturer, Institute of Academic Studies of Religions, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk U 2006      lecturer, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Pardu since 2009      lecturer, Institute of South and Central Asia, Faculty of Arts, Charles Un since 2014 Associated Professor, director, Institute of South and Central Asia, Faculty of University ****************************************************************************************** * Field Research ****************************************************************************************** 1993-1996 and 2000        longer stays (altogether 1, 5 year) in Buryatia, Atsagat Monaste documentary film and cooperation with documentary photographer J. Štreit 1998, 2001          10 month stays among the Tibetan refugees in India (Bir, Dharamsala, D 2001, 2004-2007, 2010-2011        field research in Amdo (21 month) focused mainly on cult and Tibetan deity-mediums 2008, 2009          field research in India, Nepal, Arunachal Pradesh ****************************************************************************************** * Courses ****************************************************************************************** Classical Tibetan I-III Reading Classical Tibetan Buddhism Tibetan History Tibetan Literature Tibetan Culture (with geshe Nyima) Introduction to Study Holy Places and Deities of Central Asia (with V. Zikmundová and A. Oberfalzerová) Shamanic Traditions of Central Asia (with V. Zikmundová and A. Oberfalzerová) ****************************************************************************************** * Conference presentations, invited talks and presentations, lecture series (last 5 years) ****************************************************************************************** Lecture series Religion and Politics among Uygurs and Tibetans During the Yuan Period, dub Austria, 12 hrs. Conference: Tibet is Burning: Self-immolations in Tibet, 14th-15th May 2012, paper: The Ki Ngaba: Its history and recent situation, École Pratique des Haute Études – INALCO, Paris. Invited lecture Současná krize ve východním Tibetu (Contemporary crises in Eastern Tibet) by Ministry of Inner Affairs, Czech Republic, November 2012. Conference: Bön at the Peripheries, 28th February 2013, Universität Wien-Museum für Volker 11th-12th Century Semi-Historical Bönpo Masters from Amdo. Invited lecture organized by Lech Walesa Foundation and Warsaw University, talk: Contempor Eastern Tibet (13. 3. 2013); invited lecture at the Warsaw University The Tibetan Cult of (14th May 2013), Warsaw. Invited lecture Tibetan rituals of weather-making through Tsongkhapa, École Pratique des H April 2013, Paris. Conference Central Asia as a room for interdisciplinary cooperation organized by Institute and Central Asia, Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Archeological Institute, Faculty of Ar University, paper Tibetské ochranné rituály a přivolávání deště skrze Tsongkhapu (Tibetan rituals and rain summoning ritual through Tsongkhapa), 11th April, Prague.  13th Seminar of International Association for Tibetan Studies, paper: Weather-changing rit Tsongkhapa, 21st-27th July, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Invited lecture The White Vulture Rock (Brag dkar bya rgod) and Kyangphag (sKyang ’phags) bo), Amdo, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, 13th November 2013. Conference History and Fiction organized by Instutue of Far Eastern Studies, paper: Démoni Tibetu (Demonic Tobacco in Tibet), 9th December 2013, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, International workshop Indigenous Elements in Tibetan Religions, paper Notes on Evolution (“Summoning of Well-Being”) Ritual, workshop organiser, Palacky University, Olomouc, 15th Invited lecture Současná situace v Tibetu (Current Situation in Tibet), 12th March, Pardub Workshop: Wordly Protectors in Tibetan Religions, paper: Worldly rituals through Tsongkhap Oxford University, Wolfson College, Oxford. Workshop: Dynamics of Change: Agents, mechanisms and economics of transformation in Amdo, 15. 12., Humboldt University, Berlin, paper Old murals near Dan tig monastery in Amdo. Workshop Tibetan Borderlands, paper Notes on the cult of the local deities in Amdo, worksh Palacky University, Olomouc, 28th February 2015. Invited lecture Současná situace v Tibetu (Current Situation in Tibet), 17th March 2015, P University. Lecture An improbable Tibetan ritual: bsang purification by fox (wa bsang), 2nd April 2015 de France. Semestral course The cult of deities in Central Asia (part I – Tibet). Institut für Südasi Buddhismuskunde, Universität Wien, Austria, 16 hrs., 4th-8th May 2015. Workshop Memories of Kings: Kongship in the Religious Imaginings of Asia. Parer: Memories the Post-imperial Chronicle of Bon, 22nd -23rd May 2015, Ludwig-Maxmilians Universität, Mü China International Conference of Shang Shung Culture Studies, paper Ritual of purificatio (wa bsang), September 18-20 2015, Beijing, PRC. Bonpo manuscript Culture: Towards a Definition of an Emerging Field, The Centre for the St Cultures, University of Hamburg, 11.-12. 3. 2016, paper The Nyen Collection (Gnyan ‘bum): an anthology of Tibetan myths on Nyen. Director d’études invité, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, one month: May 2016, cy on the topic Sources pour les rituels de purification et le culte des divinités locales au 14th Seminar of International Association for Tibetan Studies, 19.-25. 6., Bergen, Norway, offerings in Nyen Collection (Gnyan ‘bum). International Conference on Bon, 29.6.-1.7. 2016, paper Fox Fumigation (Wa bsang), Blou, S Dargyeling, France. ****************************************************************************************** * Publications ****************************************************************************************** Monographs 2002      with M. Slobodník, Labrang: tibetský buddhistický kláštor v socialistickej Číne; svedectvá. Lungta, Bratislava, ISBN 80-968860-0-2. 2012   The Tibetan Version of The Scripture on the Ten Kings and the Quest for Chinese Inf Tibetan Perception of the Afterlife. Triton - Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, 978-80-7387-584-8. Textbooks 2013   Archaické tibetská literatura (7.-10. stol.). Masarykova univerzita, Brno, 166 pp., 978-80-210-6358-7. 2014 Tibetské představy o zásvětí. Masarykova univerzita, Brno, 118 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-70 Volumes edited Mongolo-Tibetica Pragensia ‘08. Vol. 1/2. Special Issue: Mediums and Shamans in Central As Berounský. Charles University and Triton, Praha, ISSN 1803-5647. Mongolo-Tibetica ’14, vol. 7/2. Special Issue: Indigenous Elements in Tibetan Religions. E Berounsky. Faculty of Arts, Charles University – Triton, Prague, ISSN 1803-5647.   Research articles 2001      with L. Bělka, Burjatský buddhistický obřad “Předložení tisíce ofěr” u stúpy Daš Religio 1/ 2001, pp. 25-50, ISSN 1210-3640 2001      “Příchod k útočišti” jako vyznání víry tibetského buddhismu. Religio 2/ 2001, pp 1210-3640 2001      with M. Slobodník, Uctívání hor v amdoských vesnicích Gängja. In: Hieron 6, pp. 80-89058-11-6. 2003      with M. Slobodník, The Noble Mountaineer: An Account of la btsas Festival in Gen Amdo. In: Archiv Orientální, Volume 71, Number 3, August 2003, pp. 263-284, ISSN 0044-8699 2003      Poněkud ozbrojení strážci “dalha” aneb jak v Tibetu vítězí bohové. In: Studia Or 2/2003, pp. 101–132; ISSN 1336-3786 2004      The Wind Horse Galloping: On a Tibetan Symbol Connected with Nature. In: Vacek, 04, Signeta, Praha, pp. 185-203, ISBN 80-903325-1-X. 2004      Abundance in a whirpool of symbolic contexts: Notes on Tibetan g.yang ‘gugs and rituals.  In: Vacek, J., Oberfalzerová, A., eds., Mongolica Pragensia ’04, Triton, Praha, 80-7254-606-6. 2005      with L. Sklenka, Tibetan Tsha-tsha. In: Annals of Náprstek Museum, 26/2005, pp. 0231-844X. 2005      The Tigress and the Goddess;The Tibetan Sacred Place Tagtshang Lhamo. In: Vacek, Pandanus ’05, Signeta, Praha, pp. 135-188, ISBN 80-903325-2-8. 2005      Thirtheen Northern Lords of Khori Buryats in Tibetan Ritual Texts of Aga Monaste J., Oberfalzerová, A., eds., Mongolica Pragensia ’05, Triton, Praha, pp. 123-170, ISBN 80- 2005      Nepolapený obřad. Pohřební rituál Učitele Šenraba Miwo v tibetském bönu. In: Kov A., Podolinská T, eds., Cesty na druhý svet; Smrť a posmrtný život v náboženstvách sveta, Chronos, Bratislava, pp. 54-68, ISBN 80-89027-15-6. 2006      Dondub Gjälova bolestná hledání nové tibetské poezie. In: Nový Orient, ročník 61 41-44, ISSN 0029-5302. 2006      Tibetská sádhana osobního božstva Vadžrabhairavy. In: Studia Orientalia Slovaca 115-137, ISSN 1336-3786. 2006      Tělo jako vězení božstev v tradici tibetského lidového náboženství. In: Doležalo E.; Bělka, L., eds., Náboženství a tělo, Masarykova univerzita, Brno, pp. 197-205, ISBN 80 2006      Tibetan ritual texts concerning the local deities of the Buryat Aga Autonomous R I. In: Vacek, J.; Oberfalzerová, A., eds., Mongolica Pragensia ´06, Triton, Praha, pp. 191 80-7254-920-0. 2007      Vrány rozsévající děs a červi s železnou tlamičkou. Pekla v tibetském textu abhi disseminating dread and worms with iron mouths. Hells in Tibetan text of abhidharma). In: pp. 109-124, ISSN 1210-3640. 2007      Lapsed Buddhists, evil tobacco and opening of the Bon pilgrimage place of Dmu ri region of Amdo. In: Pandanus´07, edited by J. Vacek, pp. 165-234, ISSN 1802-7997. 2007      Tibetan ritual texts concerning the local deities of the Buryat Aga Autonomous R II. In: Mongolo-Tibetica Pragensia ´07, Ethnolinguistics and Sociolinguistics in Synchrony Edited by J. Vacek and A. Oberfalzerová. Triton, Praha, pp. 131–176; ISSN 1802-7989. 2007      Iconography and Texts of the Tibetan Five Protecting Deities. In: Filosofija, re kul’tura stran vostoka: Matěrijaly naučnoj konferencii. Izdatělstvo Sankt-Petěrburgskogo u Petersburg, pp. 331-340, ISBN 978-5-288-04523-3. 2008      Powerful Hero (Dpa’ rtsal): Protective Deity from the 19th century Amdo and his Mongolo-Tibetica Pragensia. Vol. 1/2. Special Issue: Mediums and Shamans in Central Asia. Berounský. Charles University and Triton, Praha, pp. 67–115, ISSN 1803-5647. 2009      “Soul of Enemy“ and warrior deities (dgra bla): Two Tibetan myths on primordial MONGOLO-TIBETICA PRAGENSIA ’09, Linguistics, Ethnolinguistics, Religion and Culture. Vol. Vacek and A. Oberfalzerová. Charles University and Triton, Praha 2009, pp. 19–57; ISSN 180 2009      Mountain Cult in North-Eastern Tibet and its Relation to the Buddhist Reincarnat Gacek, T; Pstrusi?ska, J., eds., Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the European Socie Asian Studies, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge, pp. 31-41, ISBN 978-1-4438-1248-1 2010      Entering dead bodies and the miraculous power of the Tibetan Kings: The landmark Pakshi’s reincarnation in Tibet. Part I. In: MONGOLO-TIBETICA PRAGENSIA ’10, Linguistics, Religion and Culture. Vol. 3/2. Edited by J. Vacek and A. Oberfalzerová. Charles Universit Praha 2010, pp. 7–33; ISSN 1803-5647. 2010      Opice a démon theurang: tibetské mýty a ochranné obrázky z Amda. In: Olivová, L. Zvířecí mýty a mytická zvířata, Academia, Praha, pp. 28-47, ISBN 978-80-200-1815-1. 2011   Entering dead bodies and the miraculous power of the Kings: The landmark of Karma P reincarnation in Tibet. Part II. Mongolo-Tibetica Pragensia '11, Ethnolinguistics, Socioli Religion and Culture. Vol. 4/2. Edited by Jaroslav Vacek and Alena Oberfalzerová. Charles Triton, Praha 2011, pp. 7–29; ISSN 1803-5647. 2012   K?rti monastery of Ngawa: Its history and recent situation. In: Revue d'Etudes Tibé pp. 65–80 (http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/journals/ret/), ISSN 1768-2959. 2012   The murdered king protecting fields: A Tibetan deity-medium from the Bonpo village Mongolo-Tibetica Pragensia '12, Ethnolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Religion and Culture. by Jaroslav Vacek and Alena Oberfalzerová. Charles University and Triton, Praha 2012 ; ISS 2013   Tibetský text Sútry o deseti králích ze sbírek Národní galerie v Praze. In: Acta Un Carolinae, Philologica 1/2013, Orientalia Pragensia XIX, Karlova Univerzita v Praze, Karol ISBN 978-80-246-2118-0; ISSN 0567-8269. 2013   Bon religion in 11th-12th century Amdo: A case of Kyangphag Mula Drungmu (sKyang ’p mu). In: Asiatische Studien/ Etudes Asiatiques, 2013/1, Bern, ISSN 0004-4717, pp. 783-808. 2013 Demonic tobacco in Tibet. In: Mongolo-Tibetica Pragensia '13, Ethnolinguistics, Socio Religion and Culture. Vol. 6/2. Edited by Alena Oberfalzerová and Daniel Berounský. Charle Triton, Praha 2013 ; ISSN 1803-5647, pp. 7-34 2014  Tibetská tabáková historie. In: Labus, D. – Löwensteinová, M., eds., Tradice a promě historie a fikce v Asii. FF UK in Prague, Varia series, pp. 65-90; ISBN 978-80-7308-515-5. 2014  Tibetan myths on “good fortune“ (phya) and “well-being“ (g.yang). In: Berounský, Dan Mongolo-Tibetica ’14, vol. 7/2, Faculty of Arts – Triton, Prague, pp. 55-77, ISSN 1803-564 2014  Tibetan “Magical Rituals“ (las sna tsogs) from the Power of Tsongkhapa. In: Vitali, Trails of Tibetan Tradition. Papers for Elliot Sperling. Amnye Machen Institute, Dharamsal ISBN 978-81-86227-72-5. 2015  A Dialogue between the Priest and the Deer. In Hanna Havnevik and Charles Ramble (ed to Bon: Festschrift for Per Kvaerne. The Institute for Comparative Research in Human Cultu forlag, pp. 97-112, ISBN 978-82-7099-817-3. Popularizing articles, translations 1995      with V. Zikmundová, Bidija Dandaron. In: Revolver Revue 28: 321-325. 2000      with L. Bělka abd J. Štreit , Na konci světa (At the End of the World). Volary 2 Kižinga: pp. 6-24), ISBN 80-902707-3-5. 2002      Král Straka (translation of a Tibetan folktale). In: Tibetské listy 16/2002: 20, 2002      Zaječí pysk (translation of a Tibetan folktale). In: Tibetské listy 15/2002: 20, 2002      Starej Sipleb (translation of a Tibetan folktale). In: Tibetské listy 17/2002: 2 1212-4354. 2002      Šlachík a Sádlinka (translation of a Tibetan folktale). In: Tibetské listy 18/20 1212-4354. 2003      Oklamaný Dugu Dogdog (translation of a Tibetan folktale), In: Tibetské listy 21/ 1212-4354. 2003      Toulavá mrtvola (translation of a Tibetan folktale). In: Tibetské listy 22/2003: 1212-4354. 2004      Bramborsrýží je tu! (translation of a Tibetan folktale). In: Tibetské listy č. 2 1212-4354. 2004      Vyvstání černohlavých človíčků (translation of a Tibetan myth). In: Tibetské lis 1212-4354. 2004      Zaječí pysk (translation of a Tibetan folktale). In: Kolmaš, J., Suma tibetského Argo, Praha, pp. 323-4, IBSN 80-7203-592-4. 2005      Kočičí máma a syn (translation of a Tibetan folktale). In: Tibetské listy č.29-3 1212-4354, pp.28. 2005      Buddhismus; Univerzální náboženství Asie. (Skripta pro Univerzitu třetího věku), 2006      with L. Sklenka, Tibetská mandala z Ladaku. Lungta, Praha (brožura k příležitost Guhjasamádži v Praze). 2007      Dva příběhy o hudbě. In: Tibetské listy č. 33, 2007, pp. 21-24, ISSN 1212-4354. 2008      Buddha Šákjamuni v tradici tibetského bönu. In: Tibetské listy č. 34, 2008, pp. 1212-4354. 2009      Buddhismus; In: kolektiv autorů, Náboženství světa. (Skripta pro Univerzitu třet Masarykova Univerzita, Brno, pp. 18-22, ISBN 978-80-210-4961-1. 2011      Původ tibetského krále podle kroniky bönu. In: Tibetské listy, č. 39, jaro 2011, 1212-4354. Reviews Bělka, Luboš, Tibetský buddhismus v Burjatsku. In: Religio 1/2002, Brno 2002, pp. 129-131, Bareja-Starzyńska, Agata and Marek Mejor, Kalasyczny język tibetański. Warszava: Dialog, 2 Orientální, vol. 74 (2006), pp. 250-1, ISSN 0044-8699. Victoria Sujata. Tibetan Songs of Realization: Echoes From a Seventeenth-Century Scholar a Amdo. In: Archív Orientální, vol. 76  (2008), pp. 428-431, ISSN 0044-8699. Eposito, Monika, ed., Images of Tibet in the 19th and 20th centuries. Études thématiques 2 École française d’Extr?me-Orient, Paris 2008, 856 pp.; 100EUR; ISBN 978-2-85539-659-0 In: PRAGENSIA ’10, Linguistics, Ethnolinguistics, Religion and Culture, Vol. 3/2. Edited by J. Oberfalzerová. Charles University and Triton, Praha 2010, pp. 183–187; ISSN 1803-5647. Goldstein, Melvyn C., Jiao Ben, Lhudrup Tanzen, On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet: The N 1969. University of California Press, Berkeley–Los Angeles–London, 2009, 236 pp., ISBN 978 In: Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines [On-line], 40 | 2009: ht emscat.revues.org/index1534.html, ISSN elektronické 2101-0013. Mejor, Marek; Helman-Waźny, Agnieszka; Chashab, Thubten Kunga, A Preliminary Report on the Kept in the Jagiellonian Library, Kraków. Studia Buddhica 1. Research Centre of Buddhist S Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw 2010, 213 pp.; Price not specifi 978-83-903229-3-3, In: Mongolo-Tibetica Pragensia '11, Vol. 4/2. Edited by Jaroslav Vacek Oberfalzerová. Charles University and Triton, Praha 2011, pp. 7–29; ISSN 1803-5647, pp. 14 Buffetrille, Katia (ed.), Revisiting Rituals in a Changing Tibetan World. Brill’s Tibetan vol. 31, Brill, Leiden-Boston 2012, 386 pp.; ISBN 978-90-04-23217-4. In: MONGOLO-TIBETICA Linguistics, Ethnolinguistics, Religion and Culture. Vol. 5/2. Edited by J. Vacek and A. O Charles University and Triton, Praha 2012, pp. 119–124; ISSN 1803-5647 Scherrer-Schaub, Cristina, ed., 2012, Old Tibetan Studies: Dedicated to the Memory of R. E Brill, Leiden-Boston, 254 pp., ISBN 978–90–04–15517–6, price 101€–review by Daniel Berouns Tibetica Pragensia’13, ISSN 1803-5647. ****************************************************************************************** * Projects and grants awarded ****************************************************************************************** Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (2001): field reseach in Northen India. Central European University- Curriculum Resource Center (2003): course “Historie tibetskéh Vnitřní Asii 20. století” (History of Tibetan Buddhism in 20th Century Inner Asia) at Facu Charles University, Masaryk University and Comenius University, in cooperation with L. Běl Slobodník (Bratislava). Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (2003-4): participation i “Náboženská politika Čínské lidové republiky vůči tibetskému buddhismu: komparativní analý policy of People’s Republic of China towards Tibetan Buddhism: A comparative analysis). “Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund” (2003): field research in Northen India. Grant Agency of Czech Republic (2005-2007), co-investigator, Obraz a text v buddhismu: tib ikonografie (Image and Text in Buddhism: Tibetan and Mongolian Iconography), grant No. 401 Researcher within the Research Project Language as human activitz, as its product and fact (2005-2009/2011 č. MSM 0021620825) Principal investigator: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Starý, CSc. Grant Agency of Czech Republic, No. 401/08/0762 (2008-2010), principle investigator „Božst náboženství: religionistický přístup“ (Deities of the Tibetan religions: approach of acade religions).