Michael Aris

Michael Vaillancourt Aris ( born March 27, 1946 in Havana, † March 27, 1999 in Oxford ) was a British historian and Tibetologist.

Life

Michael Aris visited from 1959 to 1964 the Worth School in Sussex. Between 1964 and 1967 he studied at the University of Durham in 1967, where he made his BA in Modern History. After graduating, he was invited to become tutor to the children of the royal family of Bhutan. He accepted the offer and spent the years 1967-1973 mainly in Bhutan.

His wife, the later Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, whom he had met as a student, married, Michael Aris in 1972 in London. The first year of their marriage spent Aung San Suu Kyi and Michael Aris in Bhutan, where Michael Aris had become in addition to his job as a private teacher and head of the Bhutanese Department of Translation and official historian of the kingdom. Their son Alexander was born in 1973.

1974 the family moved back to England. Between 1974 and 1978, Michael Aris extended his studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 1976 Junior Research Fellow at St. John 's College, Oxford was. In 1977, Kim, the second son of the couple, was born. About his work, A Study on the Historical Foundations of Bhutan, with a Critical Edition and Translation of Certain Bhutanese text in Tibetan Michael Aris in 1978 received the degree of Ph. D. in Tibetan Literature from the University of London.

1988 returned Aung San Suu Kyi on the basis of their mother to a stroke back to Burma back. In Burma, it participated in the pro-democracy protests and was chairman of the National League for Democracy ( NLD). In 1989 she was asked for the first time under house arrest. Michael Aris saw his wife for the last time, when her house arrest was lifted in 1995. At that time he already knew that he was suffering from incurable prostate cancer. Despite repeated requests, was no longer allowed him to 1999 to enter Burma.

Michael Aris died in 1999 on his 53rd birthday in hospital in Oxford.

Works

  • Aung San Suu Kyi: Tibetan Studies in Honour of Hugh Richardson: Proceedings of the International Seminar on Tibetan Studies, Oxford, 1979: Seminar Proceedings (Aris & Phillips Central Asian Studies ). Orchid Press, Thailand in 1979, ISBN 9780856681905
  • With Joseph F. Rock: Lamas, Princes, and Brigands: Joseph Rock's Photographs of the Tibetan Borderlands of China. University of Washington Press, 1992, ISBN 978-0295972091
  • The Raven Crown: The Origins of Buddhist Monarchy in Bhutan. Serindia Publications, 2005, ISBN 9781932476217
  • With Françoise Pommaret: From the Land of the Thunder Dragon: Textile Arts of Bhutan. Serindia Publications, 2008, ISBN 9781932476422
  • With John A. Ardussi: Sources for the History of Bhutan. Motilal Banarsidass, 2009, ISBN 9788120834095
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