IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. [1] See Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, ...

THE chief attraction which the Tibetan language possesses for the western reader is that it is the Latin of Central Asia, and preserves in its bulky literature the old-world lore and vestiges of early ...

Tibetan scripts have outnumbered those in all other languages barring three -Sanskrit, Odia and Hindi. Incidentally, Tibetan isn't even a language like Arabic or Persian which was popularized by ...

Added t.p. in Tibetan. With Sanskrit equivalents of the respective Tibetan words, selected by native Indian scholars of mediæval and later days, in collaboration with Tibetan ... translators, and ...

Puchung Tsering began the project in 2012. He collected five versions of the "Tripitaka" from Nathang, Beijing, Dege, Zhuoni, and Lainai. He used the copy from Dege - which was the most complete - as ...

Decks have been cleared for the much-awaited digitization and microfilming of rare Tibetan collections currently displayed at Patna museum following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) ...

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Watching the Sanskrit version of Sa Dingding’s video for her song “Alive” I found myself asking the question, “What would Edward Said think?” No one gets agitated when an Ang Lee or Zhang Yimou ...

The Buddha is said to have delivered some 84,000 teachings. The Tibetan Buddhist canon, all told, is more than 230,000 pages long. A global push to translate it all into English — described as a ...

BEIJING, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- More than 300 scholars on Tibetology from China and overseas gathered in Beijing on Monday for the opening of a key international seminar promoting Tibetan studies. The ...