Edited by Dr T. Matthew Ciolek

[Est.: 7 Apr 1995. Last updated: 16 Jan 2009. This page is optimised for the transmission speed, not for the fancy looks.]

The purpose of this document is to provide central access point to general online resources dealing with Tibet.

The document is a part of the Tibetan Studies WWW Virtual Library. Please mail tmciolek@ciolek.com if you know of relevant networked resource not in this page. Conversely, please notify maintainers of this document if you feel that any of the URLs listed on this page is no longer good enough to be registered here. Your feed-back will be gratefully appreciated.

• Columbia Online Research Guide For Modern Tibetan Studies (Columbia U., US)
  [A guide compiled by Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Assistant Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, and published for use on Library Web by Lauran Hartley, Tibetan Studies Librarian. It is a navigational tool for library patrons at Columbia University and elsewhere to access bibliographies and other noteworthy resources covering a wide range of subjects in the field of Tibetan Studies.
  Contents: * Tibetan Studies (Survey Articles, Journals, Book Reviews, Scholarly Blogs, Listservs); * General Bibliographies; * Library Catalogs (North America, Western & Eastern Europe, East Asia, South Asia); * Dictionaries, Encyclopedias (Tibetan Dictionaries, Chinese Dictionaries, Encyclopedias); * Tools, Maps, Images (Maps & Social Data, Photo Images & Archives, Tibetan Fonts & Software, Library Search Conventions); * Periodicals (Western Language, Tibetan & Chinese Post 1950, Tibetan & Chinese Pre 1950); * History (Biography, Religious & Geographic Surveys, Local Histories, Imperial Records, Archival Materials); * Social Sciences; * Religious Studies; * Language & Literature; * Art & Material Culture (Engaging Digital Tibet, Research Materials For the Study of Tibetan and Himalayan Art); * Music; * Contact; * Search.]
• Tibet Justice Center Reports (www.tibetjustice.org, US)
  [(formerly, International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet). Violence and Discrimination Against Tibetan Women (1998); The Case Concerning Tibet - Tibet's Sovereignty and the Tibetan People's Right to Self-Determination; Occupied Tibet: The Case in International Law; Violence Against Tibetan Women (1995); The Role of Tibetan Women in the Independence Movement; Beijing Women's Conference: The Tibetan Perspective; United Nations World Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II); Using Law and Politics to Protect Tibet's Environment; Housing Rights Violations; UN Interventions drafted by ICLT; Annotated Chronology of Relations in 20th Century (287k)]
• Japan Tibet Home Page (www.twics.com, Japan)
  [Up-to-date information about Tibet resources and events in Japan, as well as many links to other Tibet-focus sites in Japan]
• Lhasa Archive Project (Tibet Heritage Fund, US)
  [General aims of the Tibet Heritage Fund Programme: * Protection of the inner city as a living historic area (halting the ongoing demolition of old houses) * Preserving knowledge of traditional architecture * A wall- painting restoration training programme * Upgrading the living conditions in the historic inner city * Running an environmental health programme * Local community involvement in rehabilitation and maintenance projects]
• Maps and Images of Tibet (www.ciolek.com, Australia)
  [Tibet and the surrounding regions; Regions and Towns in Tibet; Maps of Tibet and Qinghai; Images of Tibetan Countryside; Images of Tibetan People; Images of Eminent Tibetans]
• Recent PRC Scholarship on Tibet (U.S. Embassy, Beijing, China)
  [A bibliography of recent Chinese-language scholarship on Tibet. Sections: (1) General; (2) Economy; (3) Environment and Wildlife; (4) Population, Society, Education and Religion; (5) Chinese Perspectives on the Status of Tibet. It offers extensive summaries of the contents of the listed books]
• Site francophone d'information sur la question du Tibet (www.amis-tibet.be, Belgium)
  [Le Tibet, sa situation geographique, generalites; Le statut du Tibet; Les violations des droits de l'homme; Les transferts de population; Le developpement; L'environnement; La menace nucleaire; La presence militaire au Tibet; Le Dalai Lama; Les Tibetains et la Democratie [Manifeste de Drepung (1989)]; L'affaire du Panchen Lama; La dissidence chinoise et la question du Tibet; La demolition finale de Lhassa; La Communaute internationale, les Nations Unies, le Parlement europeen et la question du Tibet; Textes de droit international public applicables dans un processus de; reglement pacifique de la question du Tibet; Les juristes et la question du Tibet; Le Tibet dans les livres; Les Amis du Tibet asbl - Belgique; Le Bulletin d'Information; Introduction a la culture tibetaine]
• The Tibetan National Flag (www.ciolek.com, Australia)
  [images, description, commentaries]
• Tibet at a Glance (www.magicoftibet.com, US)
  [Tibet at a Glance: statistical and factual data; Tibet In Exile at a Glance: statistical and factual data, Maps of Tibet]

  Tibet's History

  • An Annotated Chronology of Relations in the 20th Century (www.tibeticlt.org, US)
    [By Ken Herold, Second Edition, February 1994, International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet A chronology of selected events in the 20th century bearing on the relationship between the nations of Tibet and the United States of America, beginning with the year 1900 and ending in 1994.]
  • British Intelligence and policy files on China in Tibet, 1903-1950 (www.idc.nl, The Netherlands)
    [Unique primary source for the historical background to the nature of China's present position in Tibet. Specifically selected from the papers of the Political & Secret Department in the India Office Records. Files on the discovery of the 14th (the present) Dalai Lama in 1937-39. These formerly classified files and associated confidential print were accumulated at the India Office in London during the first half of the twentieth century. This edition is fully endorsed by the British Library - Oriental and India Office Collections (OIOC); 303 files; 576 microfiche. printed and online guide by A.J. Farrington, former Deputy Director, OIOC, British Library, London]
  • Buddhism On The Silk Road (International Dunhuang Project, The British Library, UK)
    [Site contents: Buddhism in India and Central Asia; The Buddhism of the Kushana Empire; The Buddhism of Khotan [incl. a map]; Chinese Buddhism on the Silk Road; Tibetan Buddhism on the Silk Road [incl. a map]; Other Followers of Buddhism (The Kucheans, The Sogdians, The Uighurs, The Tanguts); Buddhist Pilgrims and Travellers; Glossary; A Note on Diacritics; Site Information; Further Reading.
    The site (est. Oct 2001), illustrated with detailed maps and timelines, is edited by Sam van Schaik and aims at a general audience. It forms a part of the International Dunhuang Project (IDP) (idp.bl.uk). All images are from The British Library collection, or from the photographs of Aurel Stein.]
  • The Historical Status of China's Tibet (www.tibet-china.org, PRC)
    [An online version of a 1997 book 'The Historical Status of China's Tibet' by Wang Jiawei and Nyima Gyiancain. Beijing: China Intercontinental Press. The book postulates "that Tibet has been a part of Chinese territory since the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368)."]
  • Tibet History Timelines (www.churchward.com, US)
    [talk.politics.tibet Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ); Tabularized Time line; talk.politics.tibet Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ); Glossary; Tibetan vs. Chinese History Timeline; Splendid China Exhibits Timeline]
  • The Tibetan Heritage (ANU, Australia)
    [80Kb, text file: Geography, The Land and the People, History]
  • Tibet Oral History and Archive (Case Western Reserve U., US)
    ["Our understanding of the social and political history of Tibet during the second half of the Twentieth Century has been distorted by politically driven polemics and a lack of firsthand data based on fieldwork with Tibetans in Tibet . The Tibet Oral History and Archive Project (TOHAP) was conceived to fill this gap by undertaking to collect a large corpus of oral histories from everyday Tibetans."]

• Digital Himalaya Project (Univ. Cambridge, UK)
  [A pilot project (est. Dec 2000) to develop digital collection, storage and distribution strategies for multimedia anthropological information from the Himalayan region. The Digital Himalaya ethnographic archive includes photographs, films, sound recordings, fieldnotes, and texts from Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Indian Himalayas (including Sikkim). These materials date from the early 20th century to the present. The work of many anthropologists and travellers is represented, including Christoph von Fuerer-Haimendorf and Frederick Williamson.]
• Tibetan Townships Database (Diamond Bay Research, US)
  [Tibetan Placenames datasets have been produced by the China Historical GIS Project CHGIS for a digital gazetteer in cooperation with the Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library (U. of Virginia). The source file is available from CHGIS upon request. Coverage: PRC prefectures of Ali, Changdu (Chamdo), Lhasa, Linzhi Naqu, Rigaze (Shigaze), and Shannan. In mid 2001 the database did not provide Tibetan names, nor their long-lat coordinates.]
• The Tibetan Plateau Project (TPP) (www.earthisland.org, US)
  [Founded in 1992, the Tibetan Plateau Project (TPP) of Earth Island Institute is the first grassroots environmental organization in the U.S. to comprehensively address environmental (incl. research on medicinal plants and protection of endangered animals) and development issues in the greater Tibetan Plateau region. This area encompasses portions of Bhutan, China, India, Nepal and Tibet]
• Tibet Resources (U.Virginia, US)
  [Tibet Collection - U.of Virginia; Links to Internet Resources; Images and Symbols; Electronic newspapers, journals, and newsletters; Video Resources at UVa and elsewhere (films) ]
• Tibet Resources - How to stay informed (www.manymedia.com, US)
  [Periodicals, Online and on the Air, Books, Recordings, Videos]
• Tibetan Studies Archives [ftp] (ANU, Australia)
  [acip-tibet-e-texts-archive; dalai-lama-docs; foreign-gov-docs; human-rights-docs; network-inf-sources; tibet-culture; tibet-gov-docs; tibet-gov-offices; tibet-news-digest; tibet-numismatics-book; tibet-recent-history; tibet-software]
• Tibet Awareness Page (www.earthlight.co.nz, New Zealand)
  [Links to Tibetan-focus online resources of interest to the members of Dhargyey Buddhist Centre, NZ]
• China Tibet Information Center (China Tibet Information Center, PRC)
  [* News, * Tibetan Learning; * Tibetan Dictionary; * Happy Quiz; * Hot Links [to Chinese web sites]; * Highlights (100 Questions and Answers about Tibet, 2002-2003 commemorative activities of epic Gesar, Tangka, The Wild Flowers of Tibet, Travel Tibet FAQS, Prison on the Plateau [ = on the joys, comforts and opportunities of an inmate in a Chinese prison - ed.]) * Features (Tibetan Stars, Ordinary People in Tibet, Society and Technology, Approaching Tibet, Unspoiled Land); * Business (Economic Situation, Special Local Products, Famous Enterprises, Demand and Supply, Famous Brand); * Service (Tour Guide Online, Library Online, Gallery Online, Forum Online, Video Online); * Culture (Culture Plaza, Folk Customs, Tibetan Medicine, Religion).]
• Tibet Issues (PRC Embassy, US)
  [Press releases, including: Tibetan Herdsmen Now Have Pensions; Tibetans Benefits from Economic Development; Cultural Relics, Historical Records in Tibetan Temple; Tibet to Speed Up Infrastructure Construction; inside Tibet; The System of Panchen Reincarnation; Dalai Lama's Meddling in Reincarnation Search Illegal, Invalid; Dalai Denounced for His Divisive Action; Tibet Scores Historic Improvement in Human Rights; Tibetan Economy to Take Off; The Relationship Between the Dalai Lama and Shoko]
• Tibet Through Chinese Eyes (The Atlantic Monthly, US)
  [Feb 1999 article by Peter Hessler. Summary: "Many Chinese working in Tibet regard themselves as idealistic missionaries of progress, rejecting the Western idea of them as agents of cultural imperialism. In truth, they are inescapably both." Also a small collection of useful links]
• Tour in Tibet (Xizang) - Information (IHEP, China)
  [A tourism/PRC propaganda brochure. Also mirrored by U.Tennessee, USA]
• Worldbridges Tibet (worldbridges.com, US)
  [An audio and video Exploration of Modern Tibetan Culture. Site contents: Welcome; Multimedia Glossary; Dharamsala; Screening Room; Photos; Links; Comment Board; Guestbook; Contact Us]
• www.tibetanmedicine-edu.org (Milano, Italy)
  [Prof. Pasang Yonten Arya Tendi Sherpa's website contains the following sections: * History (Short History of Tibetan Medicine, Buddhism & Medicine, Schools & Training, Development in the West, Current legal status of Tibetan Medicine in the West); * Theory & Teachings (Tibetan Medicine, Tibetan Astrology, Tibetan Buddhist Psychology, Tantric Yoga, Dreams, Bardo, Tsa-rlung Therapy, Tibetan Gynecology, Materia Medica, Moxibustion, Body/Mind Cleansing, Medicine Buddha practice, Buddhist Philosophy); * Practice (Medical practice; Self-evaluation; FAQs); * General Information (Dr P.Y. Arya, Publications, Events, Medicine Buddha Hall, Library Project, Links, Contact, Newsletter, Website map).
  Dr P.Y. Arya is the author of "History of Tibetan Medicine" (published in Tibetan, India, 1988); "Dictionary of Tibetan Materia Medica" (published in English and Tibetan, India, 1994; and in German as "Handbuch aller Heilmittel der Traditionelle Tibetischen Medizin", Scherzverlag, Deutchland, 2001); and "Handbook of common illnesses and their treatments in Tibetan medicine" (published in Tibetan, Delhi, India, 1995) - ed.]

• For a Bibliography of German Books about Tibet see Tibetan Studies - Medicine section of this WWW VL maintained at the www.yuthog.org, Germany.

Sylvie Beguin, Merrick Lex Berman, A. Davidson, Jining Lu, J. Lebow, Tsering Lhadon, Willemijn Lindhout

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