Decolonising the Sacred: Acknowledging the colonial experiences of Tibetan Buddhist collections in the British Museum

该项目将与大英博物馆的西藏藏品合作，通过在博物馆藏品和档案中集中和阅读西藏知识和经验，挑战和分散殖民收藏历史研究的既定方法。该项目将考虑以下一种或多种方法：-研究大英博物馆与西藏知识生产场所（特别是藏传佛教寺院）的殖民联系的根源和持续遗产；-确定一种土著/非殖民化的方法，重新考虑在英国殖民时期获得的一组藏传佛教物品的分类和文件。

Working with the Tibet collections at the British Museum, the project will challenge and decentre established methods for conducting histories of colonial collecting research by centring and reading for Tibetan knowledge and experiences in museum collections and archives.The project will consider one or more of the following approaches:- Research the roots and continuing legacy of the BM's colonial connections to Tibetan sites of knowledge production, specifically Tibetan Buddhist monasteries;- Identify an indigenous/decolonial methodology that reconsiders the classification and documentation of a group of Tibetan Buddhist objects acquired during the British colonial period.