Comments on: Tibetan Art

Tibetan Art

plep — Sat, 29 Mar 2003 10:59:05 -0800

The Himalayan Art Project. An online collection of Himalayan visual arts and heritage, '...containing over 8,000 records, 10,000 images and 700 thematic sets'. The exhibits page is good: here's a collection of photographs of Tibet as it was in the 1950's, and here's an essay on the history of 'visual Dharma'.
Some related links :- Mongolian stories and anecdotes about politics, religion, sport and horses (Mongolians belong to the same religion as Tibetans); a privileged witness to a sky burial (via the Tibetan Studies Virtual Library); the Tibetan game of rebirth.

By: plep

plep — Sat, 29 Mar 2003 11:30:43 -0800

The escape of the Karmapa.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Sat, 29 Mar 2003 13:34:46 -0800

Fantastic links, plep, thanks. I really like these. And I've thinking about getting the book you once linked on your blog, Whispered Prayers. Here's a sad and tragically comic story of the fate of Tibetan culture under Chinese rule: China Finds Its Shangri-La In Tourism. And here's a previous post about Tenzin Palmo and the togdenma.

By: plep

plep — Sat, 29 Mar 2003 14:12:00 -0800

Thanks, homunculus.