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CZECHOSLOVAK ACADEMIC STUDY OF BUDDHISM IN THE 1950s AND 1960s: FIELD RESEARCH IN ASIA well as an active collection of Buddhist artefacts — or, as it was called at the time, of ‘Lamaist art’ — from the local residents, but mainly from secret hiding places, where the faithful had hidden these artefacts to protect them from certain destruction during the time of the great repressions (for example, in the late 1930s.) A crucial part of the documentation was the photographing and description of the holdings in the local museums they visited during their travels. A result from this expedition was a study published in French. Their next and last collaboration was a brief contribution to a conference proceedings edited by Jan Filip.” This text, however, did not address the second expedition of 1963, but the first of 1958 and therefore focused on the archeology of the Kiiltegin monument.” Jis] went on to independently publish the main results of the third expedition in Polish.” It was the great desire of Lumir Jis| to return to Mongolia very soon after the trip of 1963, but circumstances sadly did not allow for this. After 1963, i.e., after his return from the expedition, he was obliged to concentrate on other foreign working trips in Europe, as well as completing his dissertation on the Orkhon Turks.” He devoted a considerable amount of time to the preparation and realization of his project as well of processing the Mongolian collections of Hans Leder in several different museums (in Hamburg, Bonn, and Heidelberg); travelling to West Germany from May 24" 1967 to May 29" 1968, on the basis of a Humboldt scholarship. And before that, in 1963, he was able to spend a month in France, where he worked in the Musée Guimet in Paris from November 14" to December 13". In 1964, he was in Paris again for a month (May 18 — June 14"), and shortly before that, in Vienna (April 27" — May 3"). The peak of Jisl’s scientific research abroad was his year-long stay in West Germany, where he resided from May 24" 1967 to May 29" 1968 on the basis of a prestigious Humboldt scholarship. Here Jisl was a guest at several universities: he lectured about 2° Jisl, Lumir — Ser-od-jave, Namsrain: Fouilles du monument de Kül-tegin en République populaire de Mongolie. In: Filip Jan (ed.): Investigations archéologiques en Tchécoslovaquie. Academia, Praha 1966, pp. 291-292. Professor Jan Filip (December 25, 1900, Chocnéjovice — April 30, 1981, Praha) was at this time (1963-1974) the director of the Archaeological Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. Jan Filip edited as well, for more than a quarter century, the professional journal Archeologické rozhledy [Archaeological Perspectives], which he founded with the previous director of the Archeological Institute, Jaroslav Bohm, in 1949. Jisl published several studies on the theme of the excavations of Kiiltegin’s Monument, the most significant of which is the paper published in Turkish: Jisl, Lumir: Kül-Tegin anitinda 1958, de Yapilan Arkeoloji arastirmalarinin soluctari. Türk-Tarih Bulletin, Cilt 27, Ankara 1963, pp. 387-402, ill. 403-410. See Jisl, Lumir: Nowe odkrycia archeologiczne w gérach Mongolii [The New Archaeological in the Mongolian Mountains]. Acta Archaelogica Carpathica, Band 7, Krakow (1965), pp. 117-124. Jisl, Lumir: Orchonsti Turci a problemy archeologie druheho vychodotureckeho kaganätu [The Orkhon Turks and the Problems of the Archaeology of the Second Eastern Turk Khaganate]. I-IV. vol., Praha 1963 [unpublished doctoral dissertation at the Archaeological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of Czechoslovakia in Prague, p. 313, 195 tables, p. 92. of inventories, 16 maps]. This work was published posthumously in English translation thanks to the unsparing efforts of Jisl’s wife as: Jisl, Lumir: The Orkhon Türks and Problems of the Archaeology of the Second Eastern Tiirk Kaghanate. Annals of the Naprstek Museum 18 (1997), p. 160. 415
