유럽과 미국의 티베트학(Tibetology), 성과와 과제

Tibetology has Recently been noted more and more among the Korean academic sphere. Around the early 20th century, scholars who studied Indian Buddhism recognized the importance of Tibetan Buddhism as a successor of Indian Buddhism. Especially after the Mongol invasion of the Tibetan plateau, Tibetan Buddhism spread through territories of the Mongol Empire. Thus there was established on the Tibetan Plateau a prominent academic and religious center for Buddhism. This phenomenon continued until the late 19th and the early 20th centuries in the Central Asian world, which included the Qing Empire.
Depending on the Jesuit missionary, such as Antonio de Andrade (1580~1634), who traveled to northern India and the Himalayan area during the 17th century, European academies began contributing to establishing several centers for Tibetan Studies, including Tibetan Languages, History, Buddhism, and other fields. This academic tradition 유럽과 미국의 티베트학(Tibetology), 성과와 과제 | 275 was followed by Kőrösi Csoma Sándor (1784~1842), Philippe Édouard Foucaux (1811~1894), F.W. Thomas (1867~1956), Jacques Bacot (1877~1965), Paul Pelliot (1878~1945), Marcelle Lalou (1890~1967), Louis De La Valleé Poussin (1869~1938), Giuseppe Tucci (1894~1984), and Rolf A. Stein (1911~1999).
Following the end of World War Two, several prominent scholars in Central Asian Studies, such as Nicolas Poppe (1897~1991), joined to build the American academic base for Central Asian Studies, including Tibetan Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. And from the 1960s Tibetan political refugees such as Dezhung Rinpoche (1906~1987) became associated with education in the Tibetan language and Buddhism among American academies. This academic tradition of the University of Washington was led by another European scholar, Leonard van der Kuijp, and moved to Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Since the Csoma de Kőrös Memorial Symposium in 1976 had been held by Ligeti, a Hungarian Tibetologist, there have appeared several academic organizations for Tibetan Studies, such as the International Association for Tibetan Studies (IATS) and the International Seminar of Young Tibetologists (ISYT). These dynamic activities in western academia led modern Tibetan Studies.