Carmen Meinert

Ruhr-Universität Bochum, CERES - Center for Religious Studies, Faculty Member

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2021. Sacred Space and Time:Perspectives from Tantric Buddhists Material from the Tangut Empire (11th to 13th c.), Khyentse Lecture 2021, University of California, Berkely

Editor of Peer-Reviewed Online Papers by Carmen Meinert

BuddhistRoad Papers

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Editor of Peer-Reviewed Book Series by Carmen Meinert

Climate and Culture, Leiden: Brill.

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Monographs and Editions by Carmen Meinert

2023. Buddhism in Central Asia III—Impacts of Non-Buddhist Influences, Doctrines, edited by Lewis Doney, Carmen Meinert, Henrik H. Sørensen, and Yukiyo Kasai, Dynamics in the History of Religion, Vol. 14, Leiden: Brill: 481.

The BuddhistRoad project has been creating a new framework to understand the dynamics of cultural... more The BuddhistRoad project has been creating a new framework to understand the dynamics of cultural encounter and religious transfer across premodern Eastern Central Asia. This framework includes a new focus on the complex interactions between Buddhism and non-Buddhist traditions and a deepening of the traditional focus on Buddhist doctrines between the 6th and 14th centuries, as Buddhism continued to spread along an ancient, local political-economic-cultural system of exchange, often referred to as the Silk Roads. This volume brings together world renowned experts to discuss these issues including Buddhism and Christianity, Islam, Daoism, Manichaeism, local indigenous traditions, Tantra etc.

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2020. Buddhism in Central Asia I—Patronage, Legitimation, Sacred Space, and Pilgrimage, edited by Carmen Meinert and Henrik H. Sørensen, Dynamics in the History of Religion, Vol. 11, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 321 pages.

The ERC-funded research project BuddhistRoad (https://buddhistroad.ceres.rub.de/en/) aims to crea... more The ERC-funded research project BuddhistRoad (https://buddhistroad.ceres.rub.de/en/) aims to create a new framework to enable understanding of the complexities in the dynamics of cultural encounter and religious transfer in pre-modern Eastern Central Asia. Buddhism was one major factor in this exchange: for the first time the multi-layered relationships between the trans-regional Buddhist traditions (Chinese, Indian, Tibetan) and those based on local Buddhist cultures (Khotanese, Uyghur, Tangut, Khitan) will be explored in a systematic way. The first volume Buddhism in Central Asia (Part I): Patronage, Legitimation, Sacred Space, and Pilgrimage is based on the start-up conference held on May 23rd–25th, 2018, at CERES, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) and focuses on the first two of altogether six thematic topics to be dealt with in the project, namely on “patronage and legitimation strategy” as well as “sacred space and pilgrimage.”

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Buddhist Encounters and Identities Across East Asia

by Ann Heirman, Christoph Anderl, and Carmen Meinert

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2018. Buddhist Encounters and Identities Across East Asia, edited by Ann Heirman, Carmen Meinert and Christoph Anderl, Dynamics in the History of Religion, Vol. 10, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 436 pages.

by Carmen Meinert, Christoph Anderl, and Ann Heirman

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2016. Transfer of Buddhism Across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries), edited by Carmen Meinert, Dynamics in the History of Religion, Vol. 8, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 333 pages.

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2013. Nature, Environment and Culture in East Asia. The Challenge of Climate Change, edited by Carmen Meinert, Climate and Culture, Vol. 1, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 443 pages.

2011. Buddha in the Yurt—Buddhist Art from Mongolia, edited by Carmen Meinert, Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2 vols., English-Russian edition, 840 pages.

2011. Buddha in der Jurte—Buddhistische Kunst aus der Mongolei, edited by Carmen Meinert, München: Hirmer Verlag, 2 vols., German-Mongolian edition, 840 pages.

2010. Traces of Humanism in China—Tradition and Modernity, edited by Carmen Meinert, Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 207 pages.

2010. Buddhist Approaches to Human Rights—Dissonances and Resonances, edited by Carmen Meinert and Hans-Bernd Zöllner, Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 252 pages.

2004. Chinesische Chan- und tibetische rDzogs chen-Lehre: eine komparatistische Untersuchung im Lichte des philosophischen Heilskonzeptes ‚Nicht-Vorstellen‘. Ph.D. thesis, 400 pages.

Articles in peer-reviewed edited volumes by Carmen Meinert

2023 "People, Places, Texts, and Topics: Another Look at the Larger Context of the Spread of Chan Buddhism in Eastern Central Asia during the Tibetan Imperial and Post-Imperial Period (7th–10th C.)."

Buddhism in Central Asia III—Impacts of Non-Buddhist Influences, Doctrines, edited by Lewis Doney, Carmen Meinert, Henrik H. Sørensen, and Yukiyo Kasai, Leiden: Brill, 2023

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2023. “Introduction—The Meeting of Religious Traditions and of Beliefs in Eastern Central Asia,” in: Buddhism in Central Asia III—Impacts of Non-Buddhist Influences, Doctrines, edited by Lewis Doney, Carmen Meinert, Henrik H. Sørensen, and Yukiyo Kasai, Leiden: Brill, 1–12.

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2022. “Beyond Spatial and Temporal Contingencies: Tantric Rituals in Eastern Central Asia under Tangut Rule, 11th—13th C.,” in: Buddhism in Central Asia II—Practices and Rituals, Visual and Material Transfer, edited by Yukiyo Kasai and Henrik H. Sørensen, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 313–365.

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2020. "Creation of Tantric Sacred Spaces in Eastern Central Asia," in: Buddhism in Central Asia I—Patronage, Legitimation, Sacred Space, and Pilgrimage, edited by Carmen Meinert and Henrik H. Sørensen, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 244—271.

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2020. "Introduction—Piety, Power, and Place in Central and East Asian Buddhism," in: Buddhism in Central Asia I—Patronage, Legitimation, Sacred Space, and Pilgrimage, edited by Carmen Meinert and Henrik H. Sørensen, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 1–12.

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2016. "Introduction—Dynamics of Buddhist Transfer in Central Asia," in: Transfer of Buddhism Across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries), edited by Carmen Meinert, Leiden: Brill, 1-16.

2021. Sacred Space and Time:Perspectives from Tantric Buddhists Material from the Tangut Empire (11th to 13th c.), Khyentse Lecture 2021, University of California, Berkely

BuddhistRoad Papers

The BuddhistRoad Papers are available open access here: https://omp.ub.rub.de/index.php/BuddhistR... more

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Climate and Culture, Leiden: Brill.

For more information on the climat and culture series, please see here: https://brill.com/view/se... more

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Buddhist Encounters and Identities Across East Asia

by Ann Heirman, Christoph Anderl, and Carmen Meinert

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2018. Buddhist Encounters and Identities Across East Asia, edited by Ann Heirman, Carmen Meinert and Christoph Anderl, Dynamics in the History of Religion, Vol. 10, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 436 pages.

by Carmen Meinert, Christoph Anderl, and Ann Heirman

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2016. Transfer of Buddhism Across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries), edited by Carmen Meinert, Dynamics in the History of Religion, Vol. 8, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 333 pages.

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2013. Nature, Environment and Culture in East Asia. The Challenge of Climate Change, edited by Carmen Meinert, Climate and Culture, Vol. 1, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 443 pages.

2011. Buddha in the Yurt—Buddhist Art from Mongolia, edited by Carmen Meinert, Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2 vols., English-Russian edition, 840 pages.

2011. Buddha in der Jurte—Buddhistische Kunst aus der Mongolei, edited by Carmen Meinert, München: Hirmer Verlag, 2 vols., German-Mongolian edition, 840 pages.

2010. Traces of Humanism in China—Tradition and Modernity, edited by Carmen Meinert, Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 207 pages.

2010. Buddhist Approaches to Human Rights—Dissonances and Resonances, edited by Carmen Meinert and Hans-Bernd Zöllner, Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 252 pages.

2004. Chinesische Chan- und tibetische rDzogs chen-Lehre: eine komparatistische Untersuchung im Lichte des philosophischen Heilskonzeptes ‚Nicht-Vorstellen‘. Ph.D. thesis, 400 pages.

Buddhism in Central Asia III—Impacts of Non-Buddhist Influences, Doctrines, edited by Lewis Doney, Carmen Meinert, Henrik H. Sørensen, and Yukiyo Kasai, Leiden: Brill, 2023

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2016. "Introduction—Dynamics of Buddhist Transfer in Central Asia," in: Transfer of Buddhism Across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries), edited by Carmen Meinert, Leiden: Brill, 1-16.

2013. "Climate and Culture in East-Asia," in: Nature, Environment and Culture in East Asia. The Challenge of Climate Change, edited by Carmen Meinert, Leiden: Brill, 1-20.

2013. "‘From Worse to Better’: Anti-Desertification Policies on the Tibetan Plateau in the Past Decades," in: Nature, Environment and Culture in East Asia. The Challenge of Climate Change, edited by Carmen Meinert, Leiden: Brill, 231-258.

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2013. "Assimilation and Transformation of Esoteric Buddhism in Tibet and China. Case Study of the Adaptation Processes of Violence in a Ritual Context," in: Tibet after Empire, edited by Christoph Cüppers, Robert Mayer, and Michael Walter, Lumbini: Lumbini International Research Institute, 295-312.

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2011. "Einleitung," in: Buddha in der Jurte—Buddhistische Kunst aus der Mongolei, München: Hirmer Verlag, 6-30. English translation of the introduction in: Buddha in the Yurt—Buddhist Art from Mongolia, München: Hirmer Verlag, 6-30.

2010. "Introduction: In Search of Humaneness in China," in: Traces of Humanism in China—Tradition and Modernity, edited by Carmen Meinert, Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 9-18.

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2010. "Introduction," in: Buddhist Approaches to Human Rights—Dissonances and Resonances, edited by Carmen Meinert and Hans-Bernd Zöllner, Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 9-20.

With Hans-Bernd Zöllner

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2010. "论《禅定目炬》的结构——《圣入无分别总持经》“四正行”与《禅定目炬》四个主要章节之比较 ," in: 贤新者宴——王尧先生八秩华诞藏学论文集 , edited by Shen Weirong 沈卫荣 et al., Beijing: Zhongguo zangxue chubanshe, 149-164.

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2009. "Gangkar Rinpoché between Tibet and China: A Tibetan Lama among Ethnic Chinese in the 1930s to 1950s," in: Buddhism between Tibet and China, edited by Matthew T. Kapstein, Boston: Wisdom Publications, 215-238.

2007. "The Conjunction of Chinese Chan and Tibetan rDzogs chen Thought: Reflections on the Tibetan Dunhuang Manuscripts IOL Tib J 689-1 and PT 699," in: Contributions to the Cultural History of Early Tibet, edited by Matthew T. Kapstein and Brandon Dotson, Brill: Leiden, Boston, 239-301.

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2006. "Between the Profane and the Sacred? On the Context of the Rite of “Liberation” (sgrol ba)," in: Buddhism and Violence, edited by Michael Zimmermann, Lumbini: Lumbini International Research Institute, 99-130.

2006. "Legend of Cig car ba Criticism in Tibet: a List of Six Cig car ba Titles in the Chos ’byung me tog snying po of Nyang Nyi ma ’od zer (12th century)," in: Tibetan Buddhist Literature and Praxis, edited by Ronald Davidson and Christian Wedemeyer, Leiden: Brill, 31-54.

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2002. "Chinese Chan and Tibetan Rdzogs Chen: Preliminary Remarks on Two Tibetan Dunhuang Manuscripts," in: Religion and Secular Culture in Tibet. Tibetan Studies II (PIATS 2000), edited by Henk Blezer, Brill: Leiden, 289-307.

2021. "Production of Tantric Buddhist Texts in the Tangut Empire (11th to13th C.): Insights from Reading Karakhoto Manuscript ф 249 + ф 327 金剛亥母修習儀 Jingang haimu xiuxi yi [The Ritual of the Yogic Practice of Vajravārāhī] in Comparison with other Tantric Ritual Texts," JIABS 44 (2021): 441—484.

Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, 2021

The article can be downloaded on the BuddhistRoad website https://buddhistroad.ceres.rub.de/en/pu... more

2019. "Embodying the Divine in Tantric Ritual Practice: Examples from the Chinese Karakhoto Manuscripts from the Tangut Empire (ca. 1038—1227)," in: Revue d’Études Tibétaines 50, 56–72.

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2018. "Dynamics in Buddhist Transfer in Eastern Central Asia 6th–14th Centuries: A Project Report by BuddhistRoad Team," in: Medieval World 8, 126–134.

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2016. "Assimilation and Transformation of Esoteric Buddhism in Tibet and China. A Case Study of the Adaptation Processes of Violence in a Ritual Context," in: Zentralasiatische Studien 45, 341—360. (Revised version of 2013)

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2013. "Buddhist Traces in Song Daoism: A Case from Thunder Rite (Leifa) Daoism," in: eJECAR electronic Journal of East and Central Asian Religions 1, 39—52.

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2008. "Gestückelte Schriften: Überlieferungsgeschichten der dem Meditationsmeister Wolun zugeschriebenen Dunhuang-Manuskripte," in: Oriens Extremus 47, 215-245.

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2007. "A Pliable Life: Facts and Fiction about the Figure of the Chinese Meditation Master Wolun," in: Oriens Extremus 46, 184-210.

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2003. "Structural Analysis of the bSam gtan mig sgron: A Comparison of the Fourfold Correct Practice in the Āryāvikalpapraveśanāmadhāraņī and the Contents of the Four Main Chapters of the bSam gtan mig sgron," in: Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 26.1, 175-195.

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2009. Ulrich von Schroeder and Heidi von Schroeder, Development of Buddhist Art in Tibet. Illustrated with Sculptures and Paintings of the Tibet Museum Alain Bordier Foundation, English translation, Hongkong: Visual Dharma Publications Ltd.

1996. Marylin M. Rhie and Robert A. F. Thurman, Weisheit und Liebe. 1000 Jahre Kunst des tibetischen Buddhismus, partly translation into German, Köln, Bonn: DuMont, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

2003/4. "Plötzliches oder allmähliches Erwachen – konträre Positionen im chinesischen Mahāyāna-Buddhismus," in: Buddhismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart, vol. X, 17-37, Universität Hamburg, Asien-Afrika-Institut, Abteilung für Kultur und Geschichte Indiens und Tibets.

Vortragsmanuskript

2019 Dynamic, Stability and Tradition: The Role of Religions of Iranian Speakers in Central and Eastern Asia (Workshop, March 14–15, Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

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Formative Exchanges in Western and Central Asia: Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, and Buddhism in Contact (Workshop, June 27-28, Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Ruhr University Bochum)

by Eduard Iricinschi, Carmen Meinert, Andrea Piras, and Max Deeg

The workshop addresses cases of religious interactions between Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, and B... more The workshop addresses cases of religious interactions between Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, and Buddhism in the Iranian plateau, the Indian subcontinent, Central Asia, and China to the end of the first millennium CE. The participants to the workshop investigate formative dynamics of contacts, interactions, and exchanges that took place between Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, and Buddhism at multiple levels: knowledge, ritual, material, and experiential. The workshop considers the literary and social negotiations Manichaeism carried with Zoroastrianism, as an imperially-mandated religion, in the Sasanian Empire, between the third and the seventh centuries. To this, it adds the perspective of religious interactions across central Asia and into China, to the end of the first millennium CE. The workshop participants will examine the various ways along which Manichaeism moved eastward, out of the Sasanian Empire, and transformed itself in contact with Buddhism. In analyzing the ways in which religions were imported, adopted and transformed in Western and Central Asia, the 2018 workshop regards transformation, hybridization, and adaptation as various outcomes of religious encounters. To discuss these formative interactions of religions on the move, the organizers invited scholars to investigate primary sources in Middle Persian, Parthian, Greek, Latin, Coptic, Syriac, Sogdian, Uyghur, and Chinese, which describe religious contacts across Western and Central Asia until the end of the first millennium CE.

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2018 Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th c.—Part I: Sacred Space, Pilgrimage, Patronage, Legitimation Strategie (start-up conference of the ERC Project BuddhistRoad, May 23–25, Beckmanns Hof, Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

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2018 Past and Present Buddhist Transfers in Asia: A Conceptual Analysis (International Workshop, April 6, Institut d'Asie Orientale, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon).

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2017 Zones of Contact: Facets of Buddhist Interaction in Eastern Central Asia During the 9th-14th Centuries (ERC-Panel (August, 23) on the 18th Conference of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (IABS), August 20-25, University of Toronto).

2016 Tibetan Religion and the Senses (KHK-Panel (June, 21) of the Bochum KHK-Buddhism in Motion Group, XIV Seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies (IATS), June, 19-25, University of Bergen).

by Carmen Meinert and Robert Mayer

The panel focuses on religion and the senses. If Tantric ritual in general is renowned for its di... more The panel focuses on religion and the senses. If Tantric ritual in general is renowned for its direct engagement with the senses, Tibet's religious traditions are the most uncompromisingly Tantric in all of Asia. It is therefore unsurprising that Tibetan religion has developed numerous and complex methods of engagement with the senses, which it understands as one of its primary soteriological methods, and an important aspect of Tibet's vast ritual repertoire. So far, very little work has been done to connect the exterior visible manifestations of ritual with the doctrinal and philosophical views underpinning it. This panel aims to broaden discussion of this topic.

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2016 The Life of Religious Texts (International Workshop, June 08-09, Hebrew University Jerusalem).