Sinologist and Tibetologist - University Degree "l'Orientale", Naples, 1985
Master in Chinese socio-economic studies - University of Roma Tre, 2008
Civil servant - Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (presently appointed in Italian foreign public structures)
Independent scholar specifically involved in historic Chinese and Tibetan studies


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CONFERENCES

Università di Bologna - 2007
Le Minoranze nella Cina di oggi
Analisi storico-sociale con particolare riferimento al Tibet
(Minorities in today China
Socio-historical analysis wit sopecific reference to Tibet)

by: Gabriella Caramore

"Men and Prophets" it is an Italian Radio transmission that stirs on the border line between the religious faiths and the complexity of our world in transformation. Starting in 1982, with the objective to question the great themes, the texts, the experiences and the histories of spiritual traditions of every time.
02/11/2003 - Monografie. 'Mistica del Tibet: estasi e trasgressione' con Giacomella Orofino ed Enrica Rispoli - 3a puntata. 'Il volto del Maestro e il sorriso della Donna'
The extraordinary history of the VI Dalai Lama, who didn't die in 1706 (as it is told by official sources) and who secretly undertaken a new life of free spiritual search, in antagonism to the requirements of ruling powers, brings us to a constant in the Tibetan images of holiness: ecstasy, but even transgression.
Through the reading of extraordinary texts of this character - from poetries of love that seem drawn by an Italian Renaissance "canzoniere", but also from a spiritual testament that connects him to the purest Buddhist tradition - the transmission proceeds in the knowledge of the spiritual essence of Tibet, and even in the search of his historical and cultural identity.

RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS

Research on a Historical Source - The Secret Biography of the Sixth Dalai Lama
A Bridge between Cultures ed. - Rome - 2009 (pp.348, tables 7 img.24)
The secret Biography of Tsangyang Gyatso narrates how the Sixth Dalai Lama did not die in 1707 on the Amdo Plateau, while travelling as prisoner towards Beijing. Actually the official chronicles of the time report that he was deposed by the Mongolian sovereign Lhazang Khan and that he died along his journey to the Chinese capital.Things went in fact differently. The VI Dalai Lama escaped at Kunganor and then refused to accept Emperor Kangxi's proprosal to return on the Lhasa Seat, having Tibet put under Chinese control. He chose to live in incognito in the area of Alashan, where he then died in 1746, among his devotes.
The Biography, here presented by Enrica Rispoli, that personally translated it into English, is a terrific and fascinating text that, with a wide use of metaphors and poems, doesn't just narrate the life in exile of Tsangyang Gyatso. It reveals itself to be a precious historical source, crucial for disclosing true preludes of important perturbations of that period in Central Asia, as the annihilation of Mongol Empires and the great expansion of China, with a full control over the Silk Road.

Trent'anni di Riforme nella Repubblica Popolare Cinese
Un'esperienza personale
(Thirty years of Reforms in the Chinese Peoples' Republic - A personal experience)
Università di Roma 3 - Tesi di Master II livello - 2008
Starting point for this study were the celebrations for the thirtieth anniversary of Chinese openings and modernization reforms launched by Deng Xiaoping in 1978, of which I had been a witness along my stay in the Country.
The analysis had been nevertheless strongly conditioned by the tragical events determined by the global economic financial crisis that started in 2008, and that obviously invested even China.
I intended also to point out as the great Asian country erected itself as paladin of a new solution for the crisis. In China actually nothing ever results simple and can be taken for granted. Forecasts formulated by the best international scholars have often been denied, particularly concerning its ability to face social developments and international politics, especially in the most complex scenarios.

I Mongoli Occidentali tra il '600 ed il '700
La loro struttura sociale e statuale - Il loro sterminio ad opera dei Cinesi
(Western Mongols in XVII and XVIII century
Their social and state organization - their annihilation by China)
In: NIKE, Foggia, nov. 2005, pp.25-42.
In the territories of Inner Asia the period that goes from the first half of XVII century to the first half of XVIII century was full of often dramatic socio-political and religious changes.
The area taken into consideration included the territories bordering to the West the steppes of Balkhash and the Issyk lakes, part of the Kara-Kirghizia and Transoxiana regions; to the East, the territories within the big hoop formed by the Yellow River; to the North, the today’s boundary of Siberia; and to the South, Tibet. This vast territory included at that time the Dzungar empire; the federations of the Qoshots and Khalkhas; the East Mongolian khanates.
Present research comes to analyze causes and effects of all this turmoil that had not been yet exhaustively examined. Scholars too often confined themselves to sectional analysis, either concerning only one of the many countries of the area.

La Figura e la Personalità di Tsangyang Gyatso, Sesto Dalai Lama.
(The figure and personnality of Tsangyang Gyatso, Sixth Dalai Lama)
In: Acta Orientalia, København - 2002 Volume 63, pp.117-174.
« It is said that when he arrived, the precious Master was mounting a white horse with an elegant saddle and double harness. He was wearing a sleeveless vest and one similar to a tunic, new monk's clothes of good quality and then two types of cloaks, one above the other. It is also said that on the head he wore a beautiful new hat, on his feet shoes from Central Tibet made of fine brocade and that he went ahead with about ten of his disciples who took care of him.
The all-seeing Gelong Trashi, our family monk of the Turghut Ayukhihan, pronounced his precepts solemnly and said: "In the distance I see the Protector coming. That gelong will arrive in this house.
From the west the Master will come with some ten disciples, all of you, dames and dignitaries, without mistaking the omens, go and meet him. Prepare a high seat and the welcoming offerings in the house. With sincere faith you obtain what you most wish for. This Lama is not an ordinary man. I am sure of it!"» (from Chapter III of the Biography)

Ngawang Lhundrub Dargye - La Biografia segreta del Sesto Dalai Lama
Cura e traduzione in Italiano di Enrica Rispoli
(The Secret Biography of the Sixth Dalai Lama
Edited and translated into Italian by Enrica Rispoli)
Luni edition - Milan - 1999 (pp.286, tables 7 img.4)
Up to the end of the '90es in Western countries the Secret Biography of Tsangyang Gyatso the Sixth Dalai Lama, written in Alashan (Inner Mongolia) by Ngawang Lhundrup Dargye in 1747, was totally unknown.
Only the famous scholar Michael Aris had published in 1988 some passages of the text, in English, attributing nevertheless to the character, described in the Biography, a role of impersonator, nothing having whether to do with the Sixth Dalai Lama, really dead, according to his thesis, on the banks of Kunganor, in 1706.
The study now proposed by Enrica Rispoli, that also personnally took care of the translation from Tibetan into Italian of the Biography, points out to her brave objective to establish the reliability of Ngawang Lhundrup Dargye's text.