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 ...

Sanskrit manuscripts from the Tibetan autonomous region are properly identified as "one of humanity's greatest treasures", an expert said at a cultural heritage event in Beijing last week. During the ...

Two sites in Lhasa are linked to the invention of the Tibetan writing system. Outside the east wall of the Jokhang, Songtsen used to meditate next to an auspicious boulder. Later he ordered the ...

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 ...

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Counting nearly 9 million words, The General History of Xizang was meticulously compiled and written over more than 10 years by a team of over 100 researchers and authors, culminating in its ...

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 ...

The Center for Asian Studies (CAS) is an important resource on the CU Boulder campus for supporting Asia-related research and curriculum development, hosting Asia-related events and guest speakers, ...