Crossing Boundaries: Tibetan Studies unlimited, Festschrift for Toni Huber, by Diana Lange et al

A Treasure Trove!

Contents
This book is dedicated as a Festschrift to Toni Huber, who since the start of his career has
broken the boundaries of Tibetan Studies.
“Green Tibetans” as a Disjuncture in Tibetan Studies
Jan Magnusson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Skilled in philological ...
The ma mo Goddesses and Toni Huber’s Source of Life
Geoffrey Samuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
The sku bla of the Tibetan Emperors – Metamorphosed in Yungdrung Bon?
Per Kværne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Shambhala’s Boundaries: The Contested Visions of Tāranātha
and the Third Panchen Lama
David Templeman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Master Vairocana’s Journeys in Early Tibetan Buddhist Narratives
Lewis Doney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
The “Clan Castles” of Khams: Critical Editions and Provenance
of Two 17th-Century Funerary Manuals
Reinier J. Langelaar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Remedies for Various Diseases of Five Kinds of Livestock: A Tibetan
Manuscript from Mongolia and Its Study (MAiP 9182/23)
Agata Bareja-Starzyńska and Byambaa Ragchaa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
A Tibetan Myth on the Origin of Bows
Daniel Berounský . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
... and historical approaches alike, ...
The Drum of the Law and the Turquoise Dragon: Images of Authority
in Tibetan Legal Texts
Fernanda Pirie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Illustrious Ancestry, Marriage Alliances, Incarnation and Family Cohesion:
The Making of the Tibetan Noble House of Rdo ring
Franz Xaver Erhard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Discovering and Describing Buddhist Caves: Sacred Sites at Mu le gangs
Franz-Karl Ehrhard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Some Notes on the Third Gurong (1875–1932), an Amdo Nyingmapa Yogin
and Little-Known Key Figure in Early 20th-Century Amdo
Bianca Horlemann. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
A Singing Heruka Roaming the Tibetan-Himalayan Borderlands at
the Dawn of the 20th Century
Hanna Havnevik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Multiple Agendas: The Panchen Lama’s Visit to India, 1905–1906
Alex McKay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Crossing Boundaries: Four “German” Fugitives in Western Tibet in 1944
John Bray. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Crossing the Boundaries between Kullu and London: A Well Travelled Kiang
Diana Lange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
The Life and Work of Grace Jolly
Rebecca Tamut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
... Toni has also drawn on ideas from linguistics ...
Social Roots of Grammar: An Old Tibetan Perspective on
Grammaticalization of Kinterms
Joanna Bialek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Language as a Window into the Past: Proto-East Bodish Language
and Culture
Gwendolyn Hyslop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
On Reconstructing Ethno-linguistic Prehistory: The Case of Tani
Mark W. Post . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
... and art history.
Research on the Role of Birds and Deer in Early Tibetan Rituals
Amy Heller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Two Portrait Sculptures of the Dharma Lord Lodrö Gyaltsen Pelzangpo in
the Collection of Namgyal Monastery, Mustang, Nepal, Mid-16th Century
Hans-Werner Klohe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
While he does not take academic demeanour too seriously, ...
A Tape Found in a Metal Milk Can on the Mongolian Steppe
How. Journal of Crypto-Anthropological Theory, vol. 11, No. 4 (2020) . . . . . . 365
... his multifaceted methodological approaches ...
Visions of the Hidden. The Pilgrimage Site Tuwachung–Jayajum
in Eastern Nepal
Alban von Stockhausen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
Drawing Away the Ostensible Boundary Between Science and Art
Marion Wettstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
Beneath
Mareike Wulff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
... include field research, ethnography, and oral tradition, ...
The Killing Month Ritual
Geoff Childs and Jhangchuk Sangmo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
A Minyag Domestic Rite of Paying a Vow
Valentina Punzi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Journeys to the Realm of Bad Death in Kiranti Funeral Rites
Martin Gaenszle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
What Happened in ’On? A Note on the Story of the Origin of the bon po
in Central Tibet
Guntram Hazod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
In Search of Dol po pa Shes rab rgyal mtshan’s Birthplace Ban tshang Dkar
yol ri/Ka yo ri
Klaus-Dieter Mathes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486
A Holy Site Reconstructed
Gerald Kozicz and Susanne Fleischmann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
The Palge Mani of Sershul: Mani-stone Exchange between Myth
and Contemporary Pilgrimage Practice
Monia Chies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
Incombustible Heart: Ethnography of Relics and the Tibetan Economy
of Charisma
Maria Turek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547
Divine Kingdoms and Border Politics in the Western Himalaya
William Sturman Sax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563
Where the “Chinese” Are Herding Yaks
Jarmila Ptáčková . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576
Nyungar Boodjar Gilgillup–Aboriginal Identity in the South West
of Australia Then and Now
Norma Schulz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585
... and his commitment to these endeavours guarantees many seminal works yet to come.
Auspicious Encounters on the Changthang–Fieldnotes of an
Unforgettable Research Trip
Mona Schrempf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609
Tabula Gratulatoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622
About the authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632