Martin brow

Martin Brauen (born March 15, 1948 in Bern ) is a Swiss ethnologist and curator .

Life

Martin Brauen studied ethnology and religious history at the University of Zurich and Buddhology at the University of Delhi . He received his doctorate in Zurich with a dissertation on festivals and ceremonies in Ladakh . Since 1975 he has been head of the Himalaya / Far East department at the Zurich Ethnographic Museum and as a private lecturer at the University of Zurich. From 2008 to 2012 he was chief curator of the Rubin Museum of Art in New York.

Brauen is married to the Tibetan artist Sonam Dolma Brauen ; the actress Yangzom Brauen is their daughter, the artist Tashi Brauen their son.

His great-grandfather was Elie Ducommun , a Nobel Peace Prize winner , a liberal journalist, entrepreneur and State Chancellor in Geneva.

Heinrich Harrer's impressions from Tibet. Saved treasures . Pinguin / Umschau, Innsbruck / Frankfurt am Main 1974
Festivals in Ladakh . Academic Printing and Publishing Establishment, Graz 1980, ISBN 3-201-01122-3
Young Tibetans in Switzerland. Studies on the process of cultural identification (with Detlef Kantowsky ). Rüegger, Diessenhofen 1982, ISBN 3-7253-0169-7
Peter Aufschnaiter . His life in Tibet . Steiger, Innsbruck 1983, ISBN 3-85423-016-8
The mandala . The sacred circle in Tantric Buddhism . DuMont, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7701-2509-6
Somewhere in Bhutan. Where women (almost always) have the say . Waldgut, Frauenfeld 1994, ISBN 3-7294-0202-1
Dream world Tibet. Western illusions . Haupt, Bern 2000, ISBN 3-258-05639-0
Bamboo in ancient Japan. Art and culture on the threshold of modernity (with Patrizia Jirka-Schmitz). Arnold, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-89790-190-0
The Dalai Lamas. Tibet's reincarnations of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara . Arnold, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-89790-219-2
Mandala. Sacred circle in Tibetan buddhism . Exhibition catalog (with Helen Abbott). Arnold, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-89790-305-0