Isabelle Charleux

Biographic Data

ID87724
NAMEIsabelle Charleux
GIVEN NAMESIsabelle
FAMILY NAMECharleux
SIGNATURECHARLEUX I
AFFILIATIONSGroupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités
ORCID0000-0002-4320-5618
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS32
TOTAL CITATIONS12
AUTHOR COUNT32
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Buddhism and mobility. Nomadic monasteries of Mongolia, 16th-19th century

    Open AccessIsabelle CharleuxARTICLEÉtudes mongoles et sibériennes2025

    Beside stationary Buddhist monasteries, the Mongols also had itinerant monasteries with felt and wooden temples that periodically moved in the steppes and mountains of Inner Asia. Most of them eventually settled down in the course of the 18th and 19th centuries, but up to the early 20th century, a few mobile monasteries continued to nomadise in western Mongolia. This paper first argues that there is no reason for a Buddhist monastery not to be ma…

  • Des ruines, des savants, des chamanes et des divinités territoriales. Chantiers archéologiques en Mongolie

    Open AccessIsabelle Charleux, Isaline SaunierARTICLEImages du travail travail des…2025References: 3

    En Mongolie contemporaine, l’archéologie connaît un essor remarquable porté à la fois par des découvertes majeures et par des fouilles préventives. Les sites archéologiques sont également des lieux habités par des communautés d’éleveurs ainsi que par des entités spirituelles. Cette activité se trouve ainsi en tension avec les conceptions religieuses locales, selon lesquelles le fait de creuser la terre peut perturber les divinités territoriales e…

  • The Danzanravjaa museum in the Mongolian Gobi: An ancient exhibition temple revived as a modern museum

    Open AccessIsabelle CharleuxARTICLECivilisations2022References: 20

    Mongols claim that Mongolia's first museum was founded in the 19th century by the great eccentric lama, poet, and dramaturge Danzanravjaa (1804-1856), from his personal collection, in order to educate his people. The museum was located in Hamar Monastery in the Gobi Desert, and after Danzanravjaa's death, it was turned into his funerary temple. The monastery was destroyed during the religious persecutions of 1937-1938 but some of the artefacts we…

  • Ovoos on late Qing dynasty Mongol banner maps (late 19th-early 20th centuries)

    Isabelle CharleuxARTICLEÉtudes mongoles et sibériennes2021

    The maps of the banners of Inner and Outer Mongolia, drawn on the Qing government’s order in the 19th and early 20th century, contain a great number of names and drawings of ovoos (stone or earth heaps, sometimes with a central pole, a tuft, flagpoles or arrows, or tree trunks arranged in conical shape). Many of them distinguish two types of ovoos: cult ovoos and boundary-marker ovoos; in addition, many mountains are called “ovoo”. This paper rai…

  • Le passé à vendre: Commercialiser l’histoire en Asie

    Isabelle Charleux, Matthias Hayek et al.ARTICLEExtrême-Orient Extrême-Occident2020

    Les exploitations commerciales de l’histoire et des patrimoines, souvent encouragées et promues par les États eux-mêmes, ont connu vers la fin du xxe siècle un essor remarquable en Asie de l’Est et en Asie intérieure. Elles touchent un grand nombre de domaines de l’économie qui sont souvent vitaux pour les pays concernés, tels le tourisme et les loisirs, et rejaillissent sur les musées et sites patrimoniaux, sans oublier l’architecture urbaine. C…

  • The Grand Maitreya Project of Mongolia: A Colossal Statue-cum-Stupa for a Happy Future of ‘Loving ♡Kindness’

    Isabelle CharleuxARTICLEContemporary Buddhism2020

    This paper questions the current construction of a 54 metres statue of Maitreya against a 108 metres stupa in the steppe south of Ulaanbaatar, that will stand at the edge of a new ‘eco-city,’ Maidar City. The Grand Maitreya Project (GMP) was initiated in 2009 by H. Battulga, businessman and MP (before he was elected president of Mongolia). The project aims to be ‘one of the largest Buddhist complex in the world,’ and now is a ‘National project fo…

  • L’empire Hünnü/Xiongnu, nouvel âge d’or des Mongols ? Imaginaire, nationalisme, mode et marketing en république de Mongolie

    Isabelle Charleux, Isaline SaunierARTICLEExtrême-Orient Extrême-Occident2020Cited by: 1References: 3

    Cet article s’intéresse à l’engouement actuel pour l’époque des Hünnü (Xiongnu, iiie siècle AEC-iie siècle EC) en république de Mongolie contemporaine, en particulier à partir des grandes commémorations du « 2 220e anniversaire de la fondation du premier empire des steppes » en 2011. Les Mongols revendiquent aujourd’hui les Hünnü comme leurs ancêtres, et traduisent « Hünnü » par « Hun » dans les langues européennes : comme les Mongols de Gengis k…

  • Miraculous Images of Mongolia from the Sixteenth Century to the Present

    Open AccessIsabelle CharleuxARTICLEArs Orientalis2020References: 1

    In Mongolia, as in other parts of Buddhist Asia, a few special images inspired devotees to undertake pilgrimages to worship them.These images often have a miraculous origin, are credited with volitional agency, and are said to perform miracles.They frequently became "tutelary deities" of local groups and played a role in the "Buddhist conquest" of Mongolia through the creation of pilgrimage sites.Some of them became palladia and were used as poli…

  • Tibeto-Mongol Buddhist architecture and iconography on Wutaishan, seventeenth to early twentieth centuries

    Isabelle CharleuxARTICLEStudies in Chinese Religions2019

    In the Qing and early Republican period, Wutaishan had between 25 and 30 monasteries affiliated to Tibetan Buddhism. Their monastic architecture seemed to exclusively follow the Chinese-Buddhist style, except for the Tibetan-style bottle-shaped stupa. The Wutaishan built landscape seemed relatively homogeneous, and travellers were sometimes confused about the blurred visual frontier between Chinese Buddhist and Tibeto-Mongol Buddhist monasteries.…

  • In memoriam Françoise Aubin (1932-2017)

    Isabelle Charleux, Roberte HamayonARTICLEÉtudes mongoles et sibériennes2017

    C’est avec une grande tristesse que nous avons appris la disparition de notre collègue et amie Françoise Aubin, directeur de recherche honoraire au CNRS, le 10 juillet 2017, à l’âge de 85 ans. Françoise Aubin était une grande figure de notre domaine. Juriste de formation, orientaliste par passion, et humaniste par nature, elle a su toute sa vie allier l’érudition et l’intelligence des faits sociaux. Sa soif de connaissances et sa générosité intel…

  • Conclusion

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  • Index

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  • Mongolized Wutaishan and Mongol Wutaishans: Appropriation and Substitution

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  • The Invention of Wutaishan

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  • The Mongol Pilgrims: Sociological and Economic Aspects

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  • The Mongol Imaginaire of Wutaishan

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  • The Pilgrimage Sites of the Mongols: An Overview

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  • Appendices

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  • The Mongols on Wutaishan: Interactions and Encounters

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  • Preliminary Material

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  • Political and Clerical Promotion of Wutaishan in the Qing and Republican Periods

    Isabelle CharleuxCHAPTERNomads on Pilgrimage2015

  • The Mongols’ Devotion to the Jowo Buddhas: The “True Icons” and Their Mongol Replicas

    Isabelle CharleuxARTICLEArtibus Asiae2015

  • Nomads on Pilgrimage: Mongols on Wutaishan (China), 1800-1940

    Isabelle CharleuxBOOKNomads on pilgrimage2015Cited by: 11

    Nomads on Pilgrimage: Mongols on Wutaishan (China), 1800-1940 is a social history of the Mongols' pilgrimages to Wutaishan in late imperial and Republican times. In this period of economic crisis and rise of nationalism and anticlericalism in Mongolia and China, this great Buddhist mountain of China became a unique place of intercultural exchanges, mutual borrowings, and competition between different ethnic groups. Based on a variety of written a…

  • Kangxi/Engke Amuγulang, un empereur mongol ? Sur quelques légendes mongoles et chinoises

    Isabelle CharleuxARTICLEÉtudes mongoles et sibériennes2011

    Cet article étudie la perception que les Mongols ont de Kangxi (Mong. Engke Amuγulang r. 1662-1722), deuxième empereur de la dynastie mandchoue des Qing, à travers des histoires et des représentations visuelles. Loin de le présenter en despote étranger opprimant son peuple, les Mongols le considéraient comme un souverain parfaitement légitime, voire même, comme un empereur mongol. Bien que la plupart de ces légendes, collectées par des ethnograph…

  • Representing power in ancient Inner Asia: Legitimacy, transmission and the sacred

    Isabelle Charleux, Grégory Delaplace et al.BOOKRepresenting power in ancient…2010