Christian Jahoda
is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Christian Jahoda is a senior researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA) specialising in Tibetan societies. He is director of the Austrian Science Fund sponsored research project “The Scientific Tibet Legacy of Peter Aufschnaiter” (2022-2025). He is the author of „Socio-economic Organisation in a Border Area of Tibetan Culture: Tabo, Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India“ (Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press/AACP, 2015) and with Tsering Gyalpo et al. of „Khorchag“, a trilingual monograph on the history and cultural traditions at Khorchag (Purang) in Western Tibet (Vienna: AACP, second, revised edition, 2015). His most recent publication, „Early West Tibetan Buddhist Monuments“ (2021, co-edited with Christiane Kalantari) focusses on religious, cultural, political and social developments of the formative phases of the West Tibetan kingdom from the 10th to the 13th centuries.