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Contemporary Tibetan artists incorporating traditional themes: Gonkar Gyatso l l Karma Phuntsok l Yungchen Lhamo [scroll down for video] l P. N. Dhumkhang l Losang Gyatso l Angsang
posted on Sep 7, 2008 - View this thread
Seeing Tibetan Art Through Social Tags - An interesting paper on social tagging. What can tags tell us about how images are perceived by diverse cultures?
posted on Aug 22, 2008 - View this thread
Here's a small representation of some of the culture that many Tibetan protesters hope to save from eradication in Tibet: Heart Sutra, by Geshe Kunkhen.
posted on May 8, 2008 - View this thread
Holy Madness! (Flash interface.) The Rubin Museum of Art in New York City has launched a website that allows you to pore over and compare Tibetan Buddhist artwork from their exhibits. Use the "Decode" feature to pick paintings apart and learn about their intricate components.
See also: their ambitious calendar of events.
posted on Aug 17, 2006 - View this thread
Multiphonic chanting of the Gyuto Tantric University monks. [more]
posted on Aug 15, 2006 - View this thread
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Part One. Part Two. [YouTube videos] [more inside]
posted on Jul 28, 2006 - View this thread
The Nicholas Roerich Museum in New York City, houses paintings by Nicholas Roerich, a Russian artist, who spent most of his life on the Indian-Tibetan border, creating evocative images of night and day in the Himalayan Mountains. (more inside)
posted on Jun 15, 2006 - View this thread
Stripping The Gurus. Sex, violence, abuse and enlightenment. Chogyam Trungpa, the Dalai Lama, Zen masters, exposing the reality behind the facade of various spiritual teachers. Geoff Falk also writes about the spiritual beliefs of rock stars.
posted on Jun 5, 2006 - View this thread
The songs at the top of the world Unbelievable music from the land of the gods, Tibet - Haunting eerie and warming. I have no more words for this music.
posted on May 7, 2005 - View this thread
Tibetan Buddhist art of Sichuan Province, China.
posted on May 8, 2004 - View this thread
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.
posted on Mar 29, 2003 - View this thread