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More-or-less monthly musings on mainly antiquarian topics of Tibet-related interest. Independent & unremunerated since 2006
“ The heron that has dropped the fish flies without fear in the sky. ” —Padampa Sangyé
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- 108 Objects
- Access Denied
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- Alexander the Circumcised
- Barbara Nimri Aziz
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- Colonialism Is It
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- Literature in the Bardo
- Mandarin Mandated
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- Pharaoh Xi
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- The Tempest
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- Visit Chinese Hells
- Waxworks
- Wheel of Life
- Willock on Slavery
Open Access Books
- A Fine Blend of Mahāmudrā and Madhyamaka
- A Lasting Vision
- Amṛtasiddhi
- Archaeologies of the Written
- Aspects of Mongolian Buddhism 3
- Bodies in Balance
- Bon & Naxi Manuscripts
- Bringing Buddhism to Tibet
- Buddhism & the Dynamics of Transculturality
- Buddhism in Central Asia I
- Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia
- Candrakīrti’s Madhyamakāvatārabhāṣya
- Chapter from Life of Tibetans
- Comprehensive Survey of Rock Art v1
- Cultural Flows across the Western Himalaya
- Defence & Offense
- Dharmakīrti’s Sambandhaparīkṣā
- Dunhuang Manuscript Culture
- Early Tibetan Documents on Phur-pa
- Early West Tibetan Buddhist Monuments
- Evolution of Scriptures
- Exile from the Grasslands
- Frontier Tibet
- Frontier Tibet
- Great Tibetan Translator
- Hamburg Buddhist Series
- In Clear Words
- Inscription in the 'Du-khang
- Interaction in the Himalayas and Central Asia
- Introduction to the Tibetan Language
- Islamic Shangri-La
- Joro’s Youth
- Kushan Histories
- Library of Tibetan Classics Series (in Tibetan)
- Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul
- Manuscript Kanjur from Shey Palace
- Marching into View
- Materials Toward the Study of Vasubandhu’s Viṁśikā (I)
- Medicine & Memory in Tibet
- Monastery Rules
- Nako
- Patan-Vãbāhā
- Roar of a Tibetan Lion
- Sacred Landscape of the Himalayas
- Sanskrit Manuscripts in China III
- Shépa: The Tibetan Oral Tradition of Choné
- Taming the Poisonous
- Textiles and Clothing along the Silk Roads
- The Social & the Religious in Imperial Tibet
- Their Footprints Remain
- Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön
- Tibetan Printing
- Transcultural Encounters
- Treasure Traditions of Western Tibet
- Two Illuminated Text Collections
- Views from Tibet
- When Tibetan Meditation Goes Global
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- Two Dedications
- The Mysterious Whitehead
- The Third Eye: Plato, Buddhism & Rampa
- Lobsang Rampa Good to Think?
- Literary Sources for "The Transmigration"?
- Transmigration & Occupation
- Who Was That White Lama?
- The Emergency Death Meditation Known as Changing Your Dwelling
- Armenian Bell Update
- The Latest Thing in Old Histories
- A Few More Early Incidents of Drongjug
- Another Disquieting Bell and Its Inscription
- Renewed Bell Appeal
- Katsupari & the Living Slick Factor
- China Kid's Drongjug
- Does History Matter?
- Pangsa Monastery Closure Report
- Tibet's Nasreddin? Touching on Uncle Tompa's Elusive Historicity
- Greetings Tibeto-logicians Everywhere
- One Side Makes You Larger
- Happy New Year
- Storming Satan's Citadel? Huh?
- Yaks, a Few Useful Bits
- Now Begins the Silence?
- A Postscript, March 25, 2008
- Tibet Analyst Robert Barnett on March 14th
- Powerful Words from Women Writers on the Olympics
- Hearing Disabilities?
- Three Tibetan Voices to Hear
- Tibetan Independence
- What Do Tibetans Want?
- Tibetan Olympics of 1695
- Padampa's Animal Kingdom, Pt. 1
- Padampa's Animal Kingdom, Pt. 2
- Unpacking a Few Animal Metaphors
- The Question of Indian-ness
- Leeches & Prapañcas
- The Tingri Hundred
- Tibschol Downloadable
- Black Bodhisattvas
- The Chinese Mask Trick
- Losar eCard 2009
- Do Dampa's Droids Dare Dream of Desire?
- Men of Stone
- An Inaugural Lecture on Tibet's (Creative) Dark Age
- Death, Rebirth and Being Human in Tibetan Buddhism
- The Rubin's Situ Panchen Lectures
- Tibetan Mirror Revivified
- A Prayer for the Happiness of Tibet
- Bell Envy
- Itches & Scratches: Pt. 1
- Itches & Scratches: Pt. 2
- Monkey Paw, Salty River
- The Monkey & the Croc / Turtle
- The Paw This Time
- A New Clue
- Prof. Harrison on The Diamond
- Swat’s Good Feng-Shui
- Bon Bibliography Downloadable
- Take the Cursive Test
- Buddha's Life Relics Found in Antwerp
- Free Losar Ecard Advice for the Iron Tiger Year
- Ownerless Donkey
- Innermost Treasury & Zhangzhung Language
- From Gesar: The Place This Time
- Birdhorns
- Lord Shenrab’s Bodily Marks of Distinction
- Bio Refs Are Here
- South India in Tibetan Geography
- Prostrations
- Dromton's Encouragement
- Tibetan Histories - Addenda et Corrigenda
- Bricks, Brilliance & Baking
- E. Gene Smith - An Anecdote
- Fake Spotting
- Tibskrit Reloaded
- The Magical Medical Bag Texts
- Hare Year Greetings
- Love & Loveliness in Lalitpur
- Been Serving Leniently?
- Future of Learning in the Himalayas
- Padampa Portrait - Part 1
- Padampa Portrait - Part 2
- End of Tibetology in Sight
- New Old Histories
- If All the Land were Paper...
- Is the Wishing Jewel the Holy Grail We Seek?
- No Jewel (as such) Fell in Tibet
- Tibetan Proper Name Index
- No Prophet in Buddhism?
- Marginal Amusements at the Bodleian
- Two Proto-Berlitz Phrasebooks
- New Works on the Works of Lama Zhang
- Dragon Year Losar eCard Greetings
- 3 Traditions of 10 Powers in Buddhism, Judaism, Islam
- Generating Sacred Symbols
- Vajra as Implement, Emblem & Symbol
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- Āndhradeśa Early Inscriptions
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- Jataka Stories
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- Kern Institute Tibetan Texts
- Lhasey Lotsawa
- Lotsawa House
- Monlam AI
- Monlam IT
- Monlam Online Dictionary 2021
- Mustang Manuscripts
- NGMCP - Nepal-German Ms. Catalog
- Ngor's Textual Treasures
- Old Tibetan Dictionary
- OTDO - Old Tibetan Documents Online
- Prosopography of the Tibetan Empire
- Rigpa Wiki
- Sakya Digital Library
- Sakya Library - video
- TBRC - Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center
- THLib - Tibetan & Himalayan Library
- Tib Shelf
- Tibet Library - Lhasa
- Tibetan Inscriptions
- Tibetan Medical Terms
- Tibetan Mss. in Germany
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- Tombs of the Tibetan Imperial Era
- TPNI Tibetan Proper Name Index
- Treasury of Lives
- Tsadra Foundation Commons
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- 1940 Videos by Basil Gould
- Atlas of Maritime Buddhism
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- Elio Guarisco, Translator
- Gyalwa Rinpoche Channel
- Harding on Zhijé
- If It's Momo Thats Not Me
- Karma - The Film
- Kashmir & Tibetan Buddhism by Matthew Kapstein
- Learn Tibetan Letters - David Curtis
- Light of Wisdom (Tibetology Channel)
- Luczanits on Alchi
- Magical Creatures by Charles Ramble
- Oral Cultures of Bhutan
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- Thupten Jinpa on Je Tsongkhapa
- Vajra Sky
- Women’s Meditation Tradition
- Yarnall on Nalanda
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More Prime Resources
- Asian Legacy Library
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- Rangjung Yeshe Wiki
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- Journal of Global Buddhism
- Journal of the West China Border Research Society
- Journal of Tibetan Literature
- Journal of Tibetology
- Journals of Himalayan Studies
- JSTOR - by subscription
- Korean Art & Archaeology
- Kyoto - KURENAI
- Ladakh Studies
- Open Access
- Persee
- Profound Path of Peace
- Project Muse
- Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis
- Silk Road Journal
- Waxing Moon
- Yeshe
Head Liners
- The Tibet-Xinjiang Equivalence
- Academics Disappeared
- Bamiyan’s Future?
- Chewing Out the Doorman
- Blair Erred
- Tibetan Police
- Blue Elephant Stalin
- Genetic Surveillance
- Siberian Buddhist Books
- MBSR for Soldiers
- Human-to-Yak Communications
- Yoga & Brain Improvements
- Anxiety & Anger - Video
- Bean’s Super Ordination - Video
- Germano on Crystals
- Tharchin's Diary
- Marginalized
- Thangka Towers
- Lhasa 1959
- Feudal Argument
- Wheel of Barlaam
- Naxi Script
- The (Counter)discursivity of Discourse Discourse
- Nationalism of Nationalities Criminalized
- Palm Leaf Digitalization
- iCloud Control to Chairman Xi
- Facial Recog Nation
- Logotherapy on the Right
- Social Credit System (*not* Punya)
- Yeti DNA is a Thing
- Where Hollywood Bows to Beijing
- Dorjiev!
- Nonself Vindicated
- Wall Building Songs
- Hansplaining - What's That?
- Homage to a Teacher - Video
- Urbancide
- Pikas
- Lhasa - Virtual Reality
- The Hardest Language to Spell
- Freedom to Blog
- Identity Politics & Art
- Hollywood Caving
- Neural Buddhism - Video
- Accepting His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- Buddhists Blocked
- Tibetan DNA
- Buddhist Perspectives on Scientific Discoveries
- Maps of Greater Tibet
- Alphabet Goddess
- Ambassadorial Talkback
- Prayer for Peace
- Xixia Tombs
- Slouching Away from Lhasa
- The Wencheng Opera
- What Self-Censorship Means
- Namsel OCR - What It Is
- Winning the West
- Unswerving Hard Line
Past Meetings, & Impending
- 17th IATS Dhulikhel 2026
- 16th IATS - Prague 2022
- ISYT 2021
- Nebesky Symposium - Vienna Nov 2019
- 15th IATS - Paris 2019
- Moving Borders - May 4, 2018
- Lotsawa Translation Workshop - Boulder 2018
- ISYT - St. Petersburg 2018
- Ganden Phodrang Army - Paris 2017
- Religion & the Literary in Tibet - NYC May 2017
- Amdo Seminar - Prague 2017
- 6th Conference on Nepal & the Himalayas - KTM 2017
- Translation & Transmission - Boulder 2017
- Himalayan Studies Conference - Boulder 2017
- 1st Int'l Chod-Zhije Conference July 2017
- Tibet Mirror - INALCO, Paris 2016
- 4th TTM Congress - Tallinn
- IATS - Bergen 2016
- Sino-Tibetan Borderlands - Paris 2016
- SOAS - London 2015
- ISYT - Leipzig 2015
- IATTM - Kathmandu 2014
- Translation & Transmission 2014
- Taxing Tibet - Fontainebleau 2013
- 13th International Association of Tibetan Studies - Ulan Bator, Mongolia 2013
- Bhutan Buddhism Conference 2012 - Videos
- Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area
Discussions
Public Service Announcements
- Book Buddha Express
- Damaging Reports? Discredit the Source!
- Drug Resistance - Video
- Hard Riddles
- How Hoaxes Hurt
- Infectious Ties
- Lose (or at Least Loosen) Those Ties!
- Medicating Duhkha
- Meditation's Brain Alterations
- My Best Friends are Bots?
- Parasitic Providers - Video
- Vegetarian Salvation from Chronic Disease
- Versus the Metaverse
- What Breathing Does to Us
- What Human Traffics Humans?
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