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The library was founded by Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama on 11 June 1970, and is considered one of the most important libraries and institutions of Tibetan works in the world. [1] The library contains sources which were relocated from Tibet during the 1959 escape, including important Tibetan Buddhist manuscripts and archives related to ...
Tibetan Machine Uni is an open source OpenType font for the Tibetan script based on a design by Tony Duff which was updated and adapted for rendering Unicode Tibetan text by the Tibetan and Himalayan Library project at the University of Virginia and released under the GNU General Public License. The font supports a particularly extensive set of ...
Kunga Tashi and Incidents from His Life (Abbot of Sakya Monastery, 1688–1711) Sakya Monastery, Tibet in 1948 prior to its destruction Sakya Monastery (Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་དགོན་པ།, Wylie: sa skya dgon pa), also known as Pel Sakya (Tibetan: དཔལ་ས་སྐྱ།, Wylie: dpal sa skya; "White Earth" or "Pale Earth"), is a Buddhist monastery situated in Sa'gya Town ...
The Tibet Library (simplified Chinese: 西藏图书馆; traditional Chinese: 西藏圖書館), or Xizang Library, [2] also known as the Tibet Autonomous Region Library, [3] is an autonomous region-level public library of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, located at No. 25, Norbulingka Road, Lhasa.
Tibetan texts on a planetary book scanner next to a microfilm scanner. BDRC seeks out and preserves undiscovered texts, organizes them into a library catalog system, and disseminates the library online and to remote locations on hard drives so anyone can read, print, or share the texts. Texts are cataloged by work, genre, subject, person, and ...
In 2000, Germano founded the Tibetan and Himalayan Library, a digital initiative for collaborative knowledge-building about the Tibetan and Himalayan regions. He has also served as its director since its inception. [5] [6] Germano has also been the co-director of the UVA Tibet Center since 2008. [7]
Fragment of the Testament of Ba at the British Library, with six lines of Tibetan script (Or.8210/S.9498A).. The Testament of Ba or the Chronicle of Ba [1] [2] (Tibetan དབའ་བཞེད or སྦ་བཞེད; Wylie transliteration: dba' bzhed or sba bzhed) is a chronicle written in Classical Tibetan of the establishment of Mahayana Buddhism and Vajrayana Buddhism in Tibet, the ...
Gyatsho Tshering (1936 in Kingdom of Sikkim – 25 June 2009 in Minneapolis, United States), also spelled Gyatso Tsering, was Tibetan scholar of Indian nationality. [1] [2] He was the former director of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives.