To enlarge the picture, just click on it What you see in our frontispiece this morning is a finely scribed sample of Tibetan book cursive....

Just as every Tibetanist has her or his idea about how to transcribe Tibetan script into the Roman — the very word 'Romanization...

Practically everyone in Tibetan Studies has long been convinced that the Swat Valley, in northern Pakistan, is the same as Orgyan, the b...