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Cultural Anthropology - Teaching

Eötvös Lóránd University of Sciences

Department of Cultural Anthropology 

Research

I have studied Cultural Anthropology at the Eötvös Lóránd University of Sciences, Faculty of Arts (ELTE BTK) in Budapest [« go there]. Due to my deep involvement in Eastern philosophy I have specialized in the anthropology of religion, studying religious human behavior. As my area of research I have specialized on Indian and Tibetan culture. My major field of interest is the Tantric tradition - especially the cross-cultural interference of Hindu and Buddhist religious practice.

Before finishing my MA, I have been on two expeditions to India, Nepal and Tibet, doing my own research on Hindu saiva sects in Northern India. I wrote my thesis on The Cult of Siva.

Field Work
Writings and Publications
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Between 1997-98 I gave a series of lectures at the Department of Cultural Anthropology at the Eötvös Lóránd University of Sciences, Faculty of Arts (ELTE BTK) in Budapest. Although given the opportunity to give more lectures, due to lack of financial compensation I was forced to give up the voluntary teaching. Since then I do occasionally give lectures on the request of the department, but only as a visiting professor.

I also gave a series of lectures on topics relating to cultural anthropology at the Gate of Dharma Buddhist College [« go there], where with some of my colleagues we have created a group of students and professional cultural anthropologists specializing in  Eastern cultures. We are hoping that with the professional oriental training and good oriental language skills, many students can justly contribute to the anthropological research of Eastern cultures in Hungary. There have already been great contributions to the research of Hindu Tantric and Chinese Taoist sects.

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Series of lectures relating to Cultural Anthropology:

Cultural Anthropology Autumn 2002 The Anthropology of Asia Autumn 1999
Autumn 1998 Spring 1997
Buddhist Culture Spring 2000 Buddhist Schools and Sects Spring 1999
Buddhist Tantra Autumn 1996 Hindu Tantra Spring 2003
Autumn 1999
Autumn 1996

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Field Work

I have been on two expeditions to the Himalayas and North India both carrying interests for Buddhist research and cultural anthropology.

My first journey took me through Kashmir, Ladakh (Western Tibet), and North India in 1995.

My second journey took me to Ladakh & Zanskar (Western Tibet) again and to Nepal in 1998.

I have also studied some of the oasis in the Sahara in Northern Africa near the Chott el Jerid in Tunisia in 1996.

BOM BOM BOLANATH

 

Find out more about my Fieldwork or about the details of a specific research:

Field Work 1.

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North-India

Field Work 2.

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Tibet

Field Work 3.

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Nepal

Field Work 4.

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Tunisia

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Research

My research focuses on "CyberTantra" - how various religious forms and traditional rituals and initiations are transformed in cyberspace.

Interested?  

» I wrote my Cultural Anthropology thesis on » The Cult of Siva .

» I also wrote my Oriental Studies thesis on » Hindu Tantra .

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Writings and Publications

Available in Hungarian:

Travel :

Benares [Spring 1997] - [Magyar Hírlap - Világszám 2. (1997 April)] [« read it ]
Indian Drug '95 [Autumn 1995] - [Törökfürdő 1996/1 & Magyar Narancs VIII/28, 1996/06/11] [« read it ] (On-line versions available at: » Drogéria cikkgyûjtemény or the » Mancs Online )
Paris Nouveau [Autumn 1997] - [Max 1997/4 (1997 November)] [« read it ]
Sex temples of India [Spring 1997] - [Magyar Hírlap - Világszám 1. (1997 March)][[« read it ]
Thailand [Autumn 1997] - [Max 1997/2 (1997 September)] [« read it ]

Sociology :

The Internet Myth [Autumn 1996] - [Kodolányi Füzetek, 3. "Az Internet Mítosz" (Szerkesztette: Czeizer Zoltán és Csanády Márton) Kodolányi János Fõiskola Székesfehérvár, 1999. ISSN 1419-5836, ISBN 963 03 8432 9][[« read it ] (On-line version available at: » Kodolányi Füzetek )

Essays

Hindu-Buddhist Culture :

Tarr Dániel : A Hindu Tantra követői és gyakorlata . (The followers and practices of Hindu Tantra) . (GDBC MA Thesis) [Spring 1997] - [(MS Word) « read it ]
Tarr Dániel : Siva Kultusza . (The Cult of Siva) . (ELTE CAD MA Thesis) [Spring 1999] - [(MS Word) « read it ]
Jonathan Parry : Az Aghori Aszkéták . (The Aghori Ascetics) . [Autumn 1996] {ELTE CAD} - [(MS Word) « read it ]
Tarr Dániel : Indiai Aszketizmus
. (Indian Asceticism) . [Spring 1998] {ELTE CAD BA} - [(MS Word) « read it ]
Tarr Dániel : Hindu Tantra jegyzet . (Hindu Tantra Notes) . (Schoolbook of the GDBC, 1996.) [1996] - [(MS Word) « read it ]
Tarr Dániel : Csenrézi . (Chenrezig). [Spring 1996] {ELTE CAD} – [MTA Etno-regional Research Centre, Workbook 10., 1996] - [(MS Word) « read it ]

Indian Ascetics [Spring 1998] - (Exhibition Plan Outline) - [« read it ] (offline version only)
The Indian Cast System [Autumn 1997] - [« read it ]

Sociology :

Franz Boas [Spring 1997] - [« read it ]
The Vision of Apocaliptic Trends [Spring 1997] -[« read it ]
How I do my Research [Autumn 1997] - [« read it ]
The Internet Myth [Autumn 1996] - [« read it ]

Drugs :

Indian Drug '95 [Autumn 1995] - [« read it
Kashmir '95 [Autumn 1995] - [« read it ]
Manali '95 [Spring 1996] - [« read it ]
Tunesian Drug '96 [Autumn 1996] - [« read it ]

Interested?  All written documents are available for reading in the » Library.

» Read my Oriental Studies thesis on » Hindu Tantra.

» Read my Cultural Anthropology thesis on » The Cult of Siva.

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Presentations

I have stopped giving public lectures in Autumn 2003.

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» Check out my Anthropology Studies and References too.

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