Agata Bareja-Starzyńska
Dr hab. Agata Bareja-Starzyńska, prof. uczelni. Absolwentka orientalistyki UW w zakresie mongolistyki i tybetologii, staż na Mongolskim Uniwersytecie Państwowym (1986/87), stypendia na Uniwersytecie Eötvösa Loránda w Budapeszcie (1988/89), Uniwersytecie w Oslo (NAVF, 1993), Reńskim Uniwersytecie w Bonn (DAAD, 1995/96), Uniwersytecie Indiana w Bloomington (2000).
Doświadczenie zawodowe zdobyła pracując w Instytucie, a następnie na Wydziale Orientalistycznym Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego oraz w Instytucie Orientalistycznym na Uniwersytecie im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Collegium Civitas oraz jako tłumacz przysięgły j. mongolskiego. Wielokrotnie prowadziła wykłady w ośrodkach zagranicznych.
Senator UW i Przewodnicząca Komisji Senackiej ds. Studentów, Doktorantów i Jakości Kształcenia (r. akad. 2020-21); reprezentantka UW we Flagshipie 2 sojuszu uczelni 4EU+; prezes Polskiego Towarzystwa Orientalistycznego; członek Rady Dyscypliny Naukowej Literaturoznawstwo UW; od 2004 do IX 2025 Kierownik Zakładu Turkologii i Ludów Azji Środkowej Wydziału Orientalistycznego UW. Od IX 2024 dziekan Wydziału Kultur Azji i Afryki (dawniej Orientalistycznego).
Zainteresowania badawcze obejmują literaturę i kulturę Mongolii i Tybetu, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem buddyzmu; problematykę kultury książki, manuskryptologii źródeł mongolskich i tybetańskich; historię nauki w zakresie polskich badaczy Mongolii i Azji Środkowej.
Interdyscyplinarne badania wykorzystujące metodologię literaturoznawstwa (zwłaszcza edycję tekstów źródłowych) i nauk o kulturze i religii prowadzi w ramach projektów krajowych oraz w zagranicznych zespołach badawczych (Oslo, Shimane, Kyoto, Beijing, Ulan Bator, Osaka).
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4022-6226
Academic diplomas and degrees held
MA Studies: 1983-1988 – Mongolian Studies – University of Warsaw, Faculty of Neophilology, Institute of Oriental Studies
Ph.D. in Humanities (literature) – 1999 (Mongolian studies), University of Warsaw, Faculty of Neophilology, Institute of Oriental Studies. Title of the PhD thesis (in Polish): “The Ciqula kereglegci—a Mongolian Manual of Buddhism from the 16th Century (an Annotated Translation)”
Dr. habil. (higher doctorate title) – 2017 (literature), University of Warsaw, Faculty of Oriental Studies. Title of the thesis: “The First Khalkha Jetsundampa Zanabazar (1635-1723) in the Literary Records of the Mongols with Special Focus on the Tibetan Biography by Zaya Pandita Luvsanprinlei”
Professor of the University of Warsaw (Assoc. Professor) – since 2021
Scholarships and stays abroad
Scholarship at the Mongolian State University, Ulan Bator, Mongolia, in 1986-1987
Scholarship at Etvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, 4 months in 1988-1989
Scholarship of NAVF (Norges almenvitenskapelige forskningsråd, Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities), in the Institutt for Kulturstudier, Universitet i Oslo, Norway, June-September 1993
Scholarship of DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) in the Seminar für Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft Zentralasiens, Rheinische Universität, Bonn, Germany, 1995-1996 (five months)
Research exchange program in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies and Polish Studies Center, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A. March-July 2000
Visiting scholar, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Sorbonne Paris, France, May 2012 (1 month)
Visiting scholar, Institute of Mongolian Language and Literature, Minzu University, Beijing, ChRL, May 2014 (1 month)
Participation in organizations
Committee of Oriental Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Vice-President since June 2020
President of Polskie Towarzystwo Orientalistyczne (Polish Society for Oriental Studies) since 2021-present
Member of the International Advisory Board of Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington
Vice-President of the International Association of Mongolian Studies
Member of the International Association for Tibetan Studies
Grants and projects
Polish Grants
Grant of the Committee of National Research (KBN, Poland) no PB-416 HO1C/97/13 „ Ciqula kreglegci – mongolski podręcznik buddyzmu z XVI w” [Ciqula kreglegci — Mongolian manual of Buddhsim from the 16th century], PI: Prof. Stanisław Godziński, 01-07-1997– 30-06-1998 (Investigator)
Grant of the Committee of National Research (KBN, Poland) no 1 H01C 021 28: ,,Życie i działalność mongolskiego mistrza buddyjskiego Dzanabadzara (1635-1723) na podstawie biografii i innych materiałów źródłowych” Life and works of the Mongolian Buddhist master Zanabazar (1635-1723) on the basis of the biography and other sources], 25.04.2005-24.04.2008 (Principal Investigator)
Grant of the National Centre of Science (NCN, Poland), no N N103 449440: „Dokumenty orientalne z Archiwum Nauki PAN i PAU w Krakowie dotyczące Erdene Dzuu — najstarszego klasztoru buddyjskiego w Mongolii” [Oriental documents from the Archive of Science of PAS and PAAS in Cracow on Erdene Dzuu – the oldest Buddhist monastery in Mongolia], 20.05.2011-19.05.2013 (Principal Investigator)
International projects
2004-2007 „Revival of Buddhism in Mongolia after 1990”, Norway, University of Oslo, fieldwork in Mongolia: 2004, 2005, 2007; work in Warsaw and Oslo: 2004, 2005, 2007; PI: Prof. Hanna Havnevik, (Investigator)
2009-2011 „Erdenezuu – Past, Future and Present” Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research <KAKENHI>, Research Project Number: 21242022; PI: Prof. Dr. Matsukawa Takashi, Otani University, Japan (Investigator)
2011-2014 „The Mongolian version of the Tibetan chronicle Rgyal rabs gsal ba’i me long“, grant Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B). Grant Number 24320141; PI: Prof. Dr. Osamu Inoue, University of Shimane, Japan (Investigator)
2011-2014 „The Mongolian (Oirat) version of the Buddhist sutra Prajnaparamita in 8000 verses”; PI: Prof. Dr. Erdemtu Minggad, Minzu University, Beijing, PRC (Investigator)
In 2014 A.Bareja-Starzyńska together with Byambaa Ragchaa – experts on Mongolian script, especially square script by Zanabazar and Soyombo script for Unicode (Script Encoding Initiative, http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/sei)
2016-2020 „Documents connected with statistical survey done in Mongolia in 1915-16 from the legacy of W. Kotwicz (K III-19, j.a 191-238 in the Archive of Science of PAS and PAAS Mongolian Academy of Sciences; PI: Prof. Dr. Sampildondov Chuluun, Mongolia (Investigator)
2017-2022 International Cooperative Project “Analyzing Historic Photographs of Foreign Missionaries and Expeditions to Mongolia”; PI: Prof. Dr. Yuki Konagaya, MINPAKU Osaka, Japan (Investigator )
Selected publications
Bareja-Starzynska, Agata 2002 ‘‘Brief Study of the Mongolian Transmission of the Buddhist Treatise `Śes bya rab gsal’ by ‘Phags pa bla ma Blo gros rgyal mtshan’’, In: Tractata Tibetica et Mongolica. Festschrift für Klaus Sagaster zum 65. Geburstag, Karenina Kollmar-Paulenz und Christien Peter eds., Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, pp. 13-20.
Bareja-Starzyńska, Agata, Havnevik, Hanna 2006 “A Preliminary Study of Buddhism in Present-day Mongolia”. In: Mongolians from country to city. Floating boundaries, pastoralism, and city life in the Mongol lands, Ole Bruun, Li Narangoa eds., Copenhagen, NIAS (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies), pp. 212-236.
Hanna Havnevik, Byambaa Ragchaa, A. Bareja-Starzyńska, 2007 “Some Practices of the Buddhist Red Tradition in Contemporary Mongolia’’. In: The Mongolia-Tibet Interface. Opening New Research in Inner Asia. PIATS 2003: Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the Tenth International Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Oxford, 2003. Uradyn E. Bulag and Hildegard G.M. Diemberger eds., Brill, Leiden, Boston, pp. 223-237.
Tulisow, Jerzy, Osamu, Inoue, Bareja-Starzyńska, Agata, Dziurzyńska, Ewa (eds.) 2012: In the Heart of Mongolia. 100th Anniversary of W. Kotwicz’s Expedition to Mongolia in 1912 (Selected Source Materials and Study), Polska Akademia Umiejętności, Cracow (413 pp.)
Bareja-Starzyńska, Agata 2015 (book) Biography of the First Khalkha Jetsundampa Zanabazar by Zaya Pandita Luvsanprinlei. Annotated Translation, Study and Facsimile. Wydawnictwo Elipsa, Faculty of Orienatl Stiudies, University of Warsaw, Warszawa (300 pp. + Facsimile)
Bareja-Starzyńska, Agata 2016 “The Reincarnation Lineage of Zaya Gegeen”, in: History, architecture and restoration of Zaya Gegeenii Khüree Monastery in Mongolia, ed. I. Charleux, Bulletin du Musée d’Anthropologie Préhistorique de Monaco , Supplément n°5 , Paris ; Monaco 2016, pp. 43-51.
Bareja-Starzyńska, Agata 2018 “Jebtsundamba Khutugtus of Mongolia,” in: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Buddhism, and online as part of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion:
Bareja-Starzyńska, Agata, Magdalena Szpindler, Jan Rogala (eds.), 2018 “Mongolia and the Mongols. Past and Present”, Proceedings of the international conference held in the university of Warsaw on November 23–24, 2015, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Elipsa, ISBN 978-83-8017-201-2
Bareja-Starzyńska Аgata 2019 “The Role of Lamyn Gegeen Blo Bzang Bstan ’Dzin Rgyal Mtshan in the Dissemination of Tibetan Astrology, Divination and Prognostication in Mongolia”, in: Glimpses of Tibetan Divination. Past and Present, Series: Prognostication in History, Edited by Petra Maurer, Donatella Rossi and Rolf Scheuermann, Brill, pp. 198-212, https://brill.com (ISBN: 978-90-04-40737-4)
Bareja-Starzyńska Аgata 2020 “Siregetü Güüsi čorji’s Treatise that Contains the Complete Meanings of the Most Important [Buddhist Concepts] To Be Used”, in: Sources of Mongolian Buddhism, Edited by Vesna Wallace, Oxford University Press, pp. 6-38 (ISBN: 9780190900694), https://global.oup.com/academic/product/sources-of-mongolian-buddhism-9780190900694
Bareja-Starzyńska Аgata, Byambaa Ragchaagiin 2021 “Buddhist Responses to the Challenges of Transition in Mongolia: Old and New Methods” in: Horizons of Futures in Post-Utopian Mongolia, Edited by Ines Stolpe and Judith Nordby, Series: Bonner Asienstudien, vol. 19, EB-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86893-370-3, pp. 429-457
Bareja-Starzyńska, Agata 2022 “Preliminary Study on Eye in the Tibetan Language (with Reference to Literature)” in Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies, The ‘Eye’, Edited by Melike Baş and Iwona Kraska-Szlenk, Brill 2022, pp. 184-203
Bareja-Starzyńska, Agata, Byambaa Ragchaa 2022 “Notes on the Survival of Buddhism in Communist Mongolia (1921–1989)”, Guruparampara – Studies on Buddhism, India, Tibet and More in Honour of Marek Mejor, WUW, red. K. Marciniak, S. Kania,. M. Wielińska-Soltwedel, A. Bareja-Starzyńska, Warszawa, ISBN 978-83-235-5861-3, pp. 45-64
Since 2016 Editor in Chief of Przegląd Orientalistyczny [Oriental Studies Review], Journal of the Polish Society for Oriental Studies (in Polish and English)
Since 2023, July, Series Editor of Brill’s Library of Tibetan Studies (BTLS) monograph series