A website exploring the Tibetan Butter Tea Dance, an intersection of social and cultural traditions by Ana Kioko and Kennedy Thomas. Visit website here. … [Read more...]
Tibetan Cuisine in NYC
A website meant to help guide New Yorkers and tourists alike who are interested in learning about Tibetan cuisine. It serves as a resource to learn more about popular foods, as well as the restaurants that serve them. This site was created as a final project for Columbia University's Introduction to East Asian Civilization: Tibet. Visit website here. by Genevieve Barbara … [Read more...]
Interplay between Cinema and Tibet
We explored how Tibetans interact and are portrayed in the cinematic world, speaking to some of their own efforts in the field. By Aakanxit Khullar and Adil Hussain. Visit website here. … [Read more...]
Instagram Meditation Journal
Disrupting the sentiment that meditation is reserved for a certain "type," we could all use come calibration! A guide to meditation for me and you in NYC. Instagram account here by Jiyooon Lee … [Read more...]
Fly, a music video by Anu
Welcome to my project! I am Tristan Orlofski, and I am (at the time of writing) a Junior at Columbia taking Introduction to East Asian Cultures: Tibet. This is my final project, in which I focus on a particular Tibetan song and music video, Fly, by Anu, and attempt to break down the cultural influences surrounding it, and relate it to what we have studied. Enjoy! To move on … [Read more...]
Tibetan Medicine
A blog by Michael Argenziano, Tibetan Medicine: Past, Present, Future An excerpt: Ancient Tibetan Medicine: From Bön to Buddhism Medicine has been believed to be an integral part of Tibetan culture as early as the inception of the Bön tradition, centuries before the introduction of Buddhism to Tibet. According to several Bön texts, the founder of the Bön religion, … [Read more...]
Tibetan Clothing
By Nicha Sophonpanich and Angela Zhang, a website on Tibetan clothing. Includes visits to Do Kham, The Mandala Store, and online research. Visit the website here: http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/amz2132/77-2/ … [Read more...]
Machik Weekend
A Prezi-format presentation on Machik Weekend, a Tibetan Ideas Festival in New York City, by Constantine Lignos. [Prezi here] … [Read more...]
Svetlana Tibet Expedition in Lavran
Introduction. Current materials represent partial translations of the microfilm copies of the “Life in the Tangutsk monastery Lavran. A diary of a Buddhist pilgrim.1906-1907.” which are currently archived at the institute of Mongol, Buddhist and Tibetan studies. The materials are covering a research expedition to Lavran monastery undertaken by B.Baradin.(3) The … [Read more...]
“A Trip to Labrang” by B. B. Baradiin, translated by Vahe Galstyan
From the summary at the book's beginning: "The report made in 1908 at the Geographic society by B. B. Baradiin on the results of his trip to Tibet from 1905-1907 is of great interest not only because of the details it provides about the realities of the daily life in the monastery - center of the Buddhist teachings in Labrang, but also because of the structure of his … [Read more...]
Fazun’s Politico-Religious History of Tibet 西藏民族政教史 translated by Yang Qu
The Political and Religious History of Tibet was written by Fazun, a Buddhist monk and researcher of modern times (English translation by Yang Qu). The author was the deputy dean of the Chinese-Tibetan Buddhist Teaching College and this book was one of his teaching materials, which was written based on the Tibetan historical data – mainly, The Blue Annals. The book was first … [Read more...]
The Medicine of the Mind
Object biography by Gloriana Xia on the Medicine Buddha … [Read more...]
Updating Yamantaka Collage by Tenzing Rigdol
Object biography by Madeleine Stuzin on a Yamantaka Collage created by Tenzing Rigdol … [Read more...]
Pilgrimage Map of Mount Wutai
Object biography on the Pilgrimage Map of Mount Wutai by Xian Yang … [Read more...]
Ritual Dagger (phur-bu)
Object biography on the phur-bu by John Avendano … [Read more...]
Stirrups: The Unappreciated Hero
Object biography on stirrups by Chase Manze … [Read more...]
Woodblock Printing in TAR
Object biography on woodblock printing by Laine Parsons … [Read more...]
Vajrabhairava Silk Thang-ka
Object biography on Vajrabhairava Tapestry by Edward Ward Excerpt: Vajrabhairava is a wrathful emanation of Manjusri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom, and is utilized as a meditational deity. The name is derived from a Sanskrit word which translates to "Indestructibly Frightening."1 Manjusri is seen to emanate as multiple wrathful deities, most commonly Yamantaka, all surrounded … [Read more...]
Mapping Tibetan Monasteries with Timeline
A website by Alyssa Kai Wing Lee: http://tibetanciv.herokuapp.com/ (screenshot below--click to view website) … [Read more...]
Introduction to Latse Contemporary Tibetan Library
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the doors of Latse Library closed permanently. The mission of the original library, which had been generously supported for seventeen years by the Trace Foundation, is now kept alive even with limited resources by former Latse staff Pema Bhum, Tenzin Gelek, and Kristina Dy-Liacco. The three have since launched: The Latse Project, a public, … [Read more...]
The Tibetan Struggle, Through the Lens of a Camera
Shina Chetti - A website, tibetcinematicexperience.blogspot.com For my final project, I will be conducting an analysis and experiential description of Tibetan cinematography, observing Kundun (1997), a biographical epic about the 14th Dalai Lama, directed by Martin Scorsese and The Sun Behind the Clouds (2010), a historical and biographical documentary directed by Tibetan … [Read more...]
Tibetan Historical Sites and Landmarks
Noufel Benteftifa - A prezi project describing historical sites and landmarks in Tibet. … [Read more...]
Tibetan Food Project
A website on Tibetan cuisine: livandtoryeattibet.wordpress.com Here, Andrew Eseigbe and Aaron Thompson have presented our project on Tibetan food. The project involves many different distinctly Tibetan foods and drinks, including momos, butter tea, and phingsha. Not only was the food delicious, but it was an incredible opportunity to learn about Tibet in a hands-on way. We … [Read more...]
Momos & Mates: A Tibetan Food Adventure
A website on Tibetan cuisine: livandtoryeattibet.wordpress.com Hi we are Liv and Tory and we attend Columbia University in the city of New York. We have been traveling around New York City to taste different Tibetan Foods in several restaurants. Our goal was to try a wide range of Tibetan dishes and then find which ones we liked the best. We have had an incredible experience … [Read more...]
Lepcha: A Case Study of Tibetanization in the Borderlands
Alex Whitman HSEA4812 S17 Dr. Tuttle Final Paper Lepcha: A Case Study of Tibetanization in the Borderlands Abstract The Lepcha people (self-referentially the Rong) are commonly recognized as the first inhabitants of Sikkim. The Lepcha claim to indigeneity lies closely in the historical linkage between Mount Khangchendzonga and Lepcha religious tradition, which … [Read more...]