Dr.

CHRISTIAN JAHODA

researcher

christian.jahoda@oeaw.ac.at
 + 43 1 51581 - 6459


SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Christian Jahoda is a senior researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA) specialising in Tibetan societies. He is PI (and director) of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)-sponsored research project “The Scientific Tibet Legacy of Peter Aufschnaiter”. He is the author of Socio-economic Organisation in a Border Area of Tibetan Culture: Tabo, Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India (Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2015) and with Tsering Gyalpo, Christiane Kalantari and Patrick Sutherland the author of Khorchag, a trilingual monograph on the history and cultural traditions at Khorchag (Purang) in Western Tibet (Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, second, revised edition, 2015). His most recent publication (2021) Early West Tibetan Buddhist Monuments (co-edited with Christiane Kalantari) focusses on religious, cultural, political and social developments of the entire West Tibetan language area, in particular during the formative phases of the West Tibetan kingdom from the 10th to the 13th centuries.

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS

  • Socio-cultural processes in Tibet and in Tibetan-speaking areas of the Himalayas
  • Social history of religious institutions in Tibetan-speaking areas of the Western Himalayas
  • Buddhist monuments of historical Western Tibet
  • Religious, oral, and festival traditions (main regional focus: Purang, Spiti, Upper Kinnaur)
  • Society, polity, economy, and material culture of pre-modern Western Tibet
  • The scientific Tibet legacy of Peter Aufschnaiter

CV AND PUBLICATIONS


Curriculum Vitae
Publications