CULTURAL RELATIONS BETWEEN TAKHARISTAN AND TIBET

The next step of online seminar in the series “Material Culture of the Zerafshan Valley ” jointly organized by Imam Bukhari International Scientific Research Center (Uzbekistan) and the Asien-Afrika-Institut of the Universität Hamburg (Germany) started. It was attended by researchers of the Center, scholarship holders of the international scholarship named after Imam Bukhari, researchers from scientific institutions in our country and abroad, as well as scientists from Germany, Turkey, and Austria.

At the seminar Jumaniyazova Feruza Jumanazarovna, Associate Professor of Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan gave a lecture on the topic “Harmony of Turkic traditions in “royal gatherings” in Toharistan and Tibet”
The scientist gave information about the famous photo “the scene of the royal drinking”, which was painted on the wall of the Duhang temple in one of the Tibetan villages. She said that this is a rare case when a secular scene is present among the images on the wall of a Buddhist temple in Tibet. The speaker noted that the iconographic analysis was aimed at identifying artistic trends in the scene and placing them in a certain cultural context, noting that previous researches failed to identify the causes of external influences on the fresco.
F.Jumaniyazova mentioned about life of the Turkic peoples in the early Middle Ages, using the example of wall paintings, sculptures, iconographic references to “royal feasts” on coins found in such objects as Bolaliktepa in the Toharistan region. By comparing them with the drawings on the wall of the Johan Monastery, she showed that the Turkic peoples were actively involved in the socio-political and ethnomathematical processes taking place in Tibet and neighboring regions of that time.

“Relations between the Turkic peoples and Tibetans have been established not only in the political, but also in the economic and cultural spheres, which requires a deeper study of the issue,” scientist said.