Faculty
Agata Bareja-Starzyńska
A specialist in Mongolian and Tibetan studies. Her research interests include the culture and literature of Mongolia and Tibet, with particular emphasis on Buddhism. She conducts multidisciplinary research in the fields of literary studies (including the editing of primary source texts), as well as cultural and religious studies.
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Thupten Kunga Chashab
Thupten Kunga Chashab completed studies in Buddhist philosophy equivalent to a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in 1993. In 2001, he earned an M.Phil. in Tibetan Studies from the University of Oslo (Norway).
In 2003, he received a PhD in the humanities from the University of Warsaw, specializing in Tibetan linguistics, and in 2022 he obtained a postdoctoral degree (habilitation) in Tibetan literature at the same university.
He is an assistant professor at ZTMiT.
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Jan Rogala
Head of ZTMiT. PhD in the humanities in the field of Mongolian linguistics. Since the beginning of his career in 2002, he has been academically and professionally affiliated with the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Warsaw, where he lectures and conducts research on the contemporary Mongolian language, as well as the history and culture of Mongolia.
He is the author of dozens of publications and articles, including the first Polish textbook for learning the Mongolian language. He has received awards from the Rector, the Dean, and students for his teaching achievements. In 2015, he was honored with the Mongolian distinction “Honored Worker for Education.”
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Ragchaa Bamba
Ragchaa Byambaa is a lecturer in contemporary Mongolian language. For many years, he has also conducted research focused primarily on Buddhist literature in the Mongolian and Tibetan languages.
Among his most significant achievements is the publication of a multi-volume catalogue of works by Mongolian Buddhist scholar-monks, issued as part of the series Mongol Bilig. Series for Studying Tibetan Works Written by Mongolian Authors (2003–2016).
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Magdalena Szpindler
Assistant Professor. In 2022, she defended her doctoral dissertation devoted to the critical edition of a Buddhist illustrated tale about Maudgalyayana (Mong. Molon-toyin), popular among Mongols.
She continues her research on Buddhist parables and didactic literature in the Mongolian and Tibetan languages. Her academic interests focus on the literature of Mongolia and Tibet, which she studies both as a philologist working with manuscripts, xylographs, and texts from various historical periods, and as a cultural and literary scholar interested in cultural texts examined from the perspectives of narratology, cultural literary theory, and comparative studies.
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Paulina Koniuch
Her research interests range from traditional Buddhist art to contemporary issues such as diaspora identity and minority rights, as expressed through various visual arts and literature. As a graduate of Tibetan Studies and Art History, she seeks to combine methods from different disciplines, including anthropology, visual studies, and regional cultural studies.
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Tenzin Tsenyi
Tenzin Tsenyi is a PhD candidate at the Doctoral School of Humanities, University of Warsaw, specializing in literary studies. Her research focuses on Tibetan religious guidebooks preserved in the Pander Collection at the Jagiellonian Library in Kraków. Recently, she began work on the project Tibetan Religious Guidebook (gnas yig): Studies on an Endangered Literary Genre Based on Selected Examples, funded by the National Science Centre (Narodowe Centrum Nauki, NCN). In addition to her research, she serves as a part-time assistant at the Department of Mongolian and Tibetan Studies, Faculty of Asian and African Cultures, University of Warsaw, where she teaches Tibetan language and culture.
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