Prof. Dr. Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz Emerita Phone +41 31 684 80 62 E-Mail karenina.kollmar-paulenz@unibe.ch Postal Address Institute for the Science of Religion Universität Bern Lerchenweg 36 CH-3012 Bern Consultation Hour By prior arrangement please send an E-Mail
Research Research Interests Religious and cultural history of Tibet and Mogolia History of non-European knowledge systems Global History of Religion Study of the Mongolian bKa' 'gyur Theory of Religion Research Projects Mongolian worlds of experience in times of global networking: the Ordos area in the last decades of the Quing Dynasty Mongolian Knowledge Systems in the 18th and 19th Centuries: The formation of a "Doctrine of the Shamans" Cataloging the Tibetan and Mongolian Manuscripts and Block Prints of the collection of Richard Ernst, Winterthur. Crescent and the Swiss Cross: A survey of Swiss converts to Islam Canonization processes in a transcultural perspective. The transmission of the Bhiksunīprātimoksasūtra in Mongolia: scriptural text in theory and practices. Canonicity in translation: the Mongolian versions of the “Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 lines”-sutra.
Academic Memberships Membership of Scholarly Organisations Societas Uralo-Altaica Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG) Deutsche Vereinigung für Religionswissenschaft (DVRW) Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Religionswissenschaft (SGR) International Association of Tibetan Studies (IATS) Schweizerische Asiengesellschaft Swiss Committee on Polar and High Altitude Research Institut für Historische Anthropologie International Association for Mongolian Studies Board Member Schweizerische Asiengesellschaft (SAG) Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG)
Curriculum Vitae Study of Tibetology, Mongolian Studies, Cf. Religious Studies, Indology and Central Asian Turkology in Bonn. M.A. 1984. 1984 - Doctoral studies in New Delhi 1984-86 - Field research in North India and Nepal 1991 - Doctorate. Teaching activity in Bonn, Marburg and Moscow. 1999 - Habilitation Since 1999 full Professor of Religious Studies, University of Bern. 2007-2010 Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Bern
Publications List of Publications (December 2023) (PDF, 341KB) Erdeni tunumal neretü sudur Buddhism in Mongolia after 1990. In: Journal of Global Buddhism 4, 2003, 18-34 Tagung "Konzepte": Response zu Tagungsbeiträgen, 7-10 Teaching the Dharma in Pictures: Illustrated Mongolian Books of the Ernst Collection in Switzerland Zwischen Machtpolitik und unermesslichem Mitgefühl: Die Dalai Lamas Interview zur Frage der Unabhängigkeit Tibets (16.2.2013)
