This collection includes lectures on various topics given by Tibetan scholars.

Series: Buddhist Logic (10 titles)   collection details | view all titles

Series: Presentations at “Three Decades and Eighteen PhDs: The Tibetan and Buddhist Studies Legacy of Jeffrey Hopkins at the University of Virginia” (16 titles)   collection details | view all titles

Series: Architecture   collection details | view all titles
This consists of two primary series �C the dramatic enactment of making a traditional Tibetan painting (thang ka) in the old city of lha sa (bar skor), and a series of short lectures by a prominent Tibetan art historian/artist.

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Series: The Making of a Thangka in Lhasa (19 titles)   collection details | view all titles
This series has two components, both of which involve the same painter who lives in the old city part of Lhasa. The first component is a narrative study of how a lay person comes to order the painting of a thangka from the initial reason to the final pickup. The second component is a detailed study of the painter instructing his disciple on details of painting in the actual execution of the comissioned thangka.

·Sub-series: The Social Process of Thangka Creation in Lhasa (9 titles)
·Sub-series: Thangka Painting Techniques in Action (10 titles)

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Series: Tibetan Wood and Stone Carving (4 titles)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Tibetan Art History Lectures (5 titles)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Tibetan Wood Furniture Making (6 titles)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Modern Art (18 titles)   collection details | view all titles

·Sub-series: Gendun Choephel Artists' Guild Interviews (18 titles)

This collection contains titles with conversation in the Basum (brag gsum) language, a language spoken in a region of Kong po in Central Tibet that is related to Tibetan but not a dialect of Tibetan.

Series: Body language in Tibet (12 titles)   collection details | view all titles
Body language in Tibet explores the ways in which Tibetans use body language to communicate. At present, our examples are drawn from Lhasa, but we hope eventually to get others involved so that variations in body language across Tibetan cultural regions can be studied. These resources are useful for the language learner trying to learn suitable physical expressions and gestures, but could also be helpful for non-language learners to interpret physical expressions while interacting with Tibetans. It may also be of general cultural interest.

This collection involves videotaped or audiotaped proceedings of conferences concerning Tibet and the Himalayas.

Series: University of Virgnia Tibet History Conference   collection details | view all titles
Held on March 15, 2003 at the University of Virginia, this conference was devoted to topics on Tibetan History. Organized by Bryan Cuevas, David Germano and Kurtis Schaeffer, other participants included Matthew Kapstein, Daniel Martin, Gene Smith, Gray Tuttle, and Leonard van der Kuijp. The format was a medium length talk followed by questions and answers.

Series: Dialects Sampler   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Khams Tibetan Dialect   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Amdo Tibetan Dialect (18 titles)   collection details | view all titles

·Sub-series: Amdo Dialect Conversations (17 titles)

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Series: Basum Language Dialogues   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Minyak Dialect   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Gyarong Dialect   collection details | view all titles

Series: In the Kitchen and Dining Room (2 titles)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: House Tours (1 title)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Finances (2 titles)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Families   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Gossiping (4 titles)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Parent-Child   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Marriages   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Pets and Plants   collection details | view all titles
Get videos of Tibetans talking about different types of flowers, taking care of house plants, history and practice of Tibetan personal domestic gardens and so forth.

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Series: Domestic Religion   collection details | view all titles

·Sub-series: Personal Daily Activities
·Sub-series: Wedding Ceremonies
·Sub-series: Religious Language

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Series: Dealing with the Outside (3 titles)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: In the Bathroom   collection details | view all titles
Terms used for parts of bathroom activities – cleaning, urination, etc. that go on in the bathroom.

We have a few, and we can collect a variety of descriptions of dreams, discussions of dream interpretation, etc. It will make a fascinating collection.

This collection is focused on educational practices in Tibet, including actual classroom events and interviews with educators and students.

Series: Primary Schools   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Secondary Schools   collection details | view all titles

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Series: University (1 title)   collection details | view all titles

Series: Interviews in English (2 titles)   collection details | view all titles

Series: Overview of Festivals in Tibet (2 titles)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: The Flower Offering Festival   collection details | view all titles

·Sub-series: The tshal gung thang Flower Offering Ceremony
·Sub-series: The khra 'brug Flower Offering Ceremony

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Series: The Music of Tibetan Festivals (5 titles)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: New Year's Festivals   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Horse Race Festivals   collection details | view all titles

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Series: sa ga zla ba   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Medical Evocation (sman grub)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Tibetan Opera   collection details | view all titles

Pictures of menus and restaurant signs � do comprehensively

Series: In the Fields   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Shopping for Food (6 titles)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: In the Kitchen (3 titles)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: In the Restaurant (1 title)   collection details | view all titles

·Sub-series: Tibetan Restaurant
·Sub-series: Chinese Restaurant

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Series: Classical Food: The Great Cook   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Domestic Kitchen   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Domestic Meals (1 title)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Cooks Speak out   collection details | view all titles

Frederick Williamson was a British Political Officer stationed in Sikkim, Bhutan and Tibet in the 1930s. Williamson shot 23 reels of 16mm cine film while in resident in Sikkim and travelling around Tibet and Bhutan. These have now been digitised by the Digital Himalaya Project and can be viewed online. If you are interested in using the films for private or professional reasons, please contact Mark Turin: mt272@cornell.edu

These 16mm films are held in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. They were gifted to Professor Alan Macfarlane by Professor Haimendorf shortly before his death, and were digitised between December 2000 and August 2002 by Mark Turin and Sarah Harrison. The footage was then catalogued by members of the Digital Himalaya Project.

Series: Apa Tani films (11 titles)   collection details | view all titles
Presented below are edited film clips from Professor Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf field trip to the Apa Tani Valley in Arunachal Pradesh, north eastern India. From 1912 to 1944, no exploratory expedition had entered the Subansiri region of the North-East Frontier regions, until Haimendorf, as Special Officer in Subansiri, visited a number of the villages in 1944 and 1945. Haimendorf focussed his ethnographic attentions on the Apa Tani people, who are documented in the footage below. His excellent book The Apa Tanis and their Neighbours (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962) describes his field trip in detail and describes the culture of the peoples of this little-known area.

dbang �dus, tshe ring (ta tshe old guy), and dngos grub dbang mo (�jigs me rdo rje wife).

Series: The Frederick Williamson Collection (23 titles)   collection details | view all titles

The History of Central Tibet offers oral commentaries on historical literature concerning central Tibet along with on-site lectures at key historical monasteries and towns.

Series: An Oral Commentary on the Fifth Dalai Lama's Annals of Tibet (24 titles)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Site Lectures for important Historical Sites in Central Tibet (41 titles)   collection details | view all titles
This series provides on-site lectures at major historical sites in Central Tibet with a special focus on monasteries. It also includes other sites, such as tombs and major administrative towns.

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Series: Visual Documentation of Famous Historical Sites of Central Tibet (11 titles)   collection details | view all titles

This is a collection of Tibetan humor including professional Tibetan comics and everyday Tibetans in humorous situations and joke telling.

Series: Humorous Conversations (2 titles)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Professional Tibetan Comics (5 titles)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Tibetan Comics at the University of Virginia (10 titles)   collection details | view all titles

·Sub-series: Comedy Performance (10 titles)
·Sub-series: Interviews with Comedians on Tibetan Humor

This follows several loosely interwoven stories in contemporary urban Lhasa ranging over a romantic conflict between three young friends, martial friction between a middle aged couple, and the reminiscence by older friends. Together it looks at ordinary but often emotional events in the lives of contemporary Lhasans.

Series: Three's Company (25 titles)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Old Times (3 titles)   collection details | view all titles
In 2001 there were tapes made at Karma Kunsang involving Sonam's father and some of the older guys in Tibet Drama Grouip. Need to see if any of that could go here. It may have had some people pretending to be specific occupations and hence would clash with roles they have in another videos here, but need to extract them for use here or elsewhere either way.

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Series: Old Friends at the Kyichu Hotel (7 titles)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: An Afternoon Off at Home (7 titles)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Two Children Talking About Things (4 titles)   collection details | view all titles
Two pre-teen Tibetan girls - one Lhasan-American girl one Lhasan - speak in Lhasan Tibetan on varous topics.

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Series: At the Drama Group Office (6 titles)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: The Norbulingka Picnic (5 titles)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Two Young Men in Lhasa (lha sa) (25 titles)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Shopping in Lhasa (lha sa) (8 titles)   collection details | view all titles

·Sub-series: Shopping for Food (1 title)
·Sub-series: Bargaining in the Barkor (bar skor) (7 titles)

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Series: People and Appearances in Lhasa (lha sa) (50 titles)   collection details | view all titles

·Sub-series: Clothes (2 titles)
·Sub-series: Body Language (15 titles)
·Sub-series: Describing People (33 titles)

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Series: Humor in Lhasa (lha sa) (7 titles)   collection details | view all titles
The Tibetan comics. thubs bstan and dmig dmar. Do 3 things. Do on Sunday the 14th. Wear hats and chubas. Site kun bde gling with monk. Thub bstan saw in 1963 (?) blo bzang rdo rje, a Tibetan comic famous for his drunken acts. Thub bstan and mig dmar have worked apart for 40 years, but from 1980 worked together. Were in same office, but before not together. Thub bstan had a partner before. Now mig dmar has another partner sometimes, sicne thub bstan is semi-retired. Three other people who work with these guys at times. office: lha sa grong ?khyer zlos gar tshogs pa ? now is named lha sa grong khyer mi rigs sgyu rtsal tshogs pa. is located neare dar rgyas sgron khang. more than 100 workers in this office. never perform privately, only for office. can only perform in nang ma if is for office. the drunken skit is from china. never watched foreign actors because of English. have watched some Chinese. the laughter comes from Chinese. lha mo rig gnas those all have lo rgyus mkhas pa. khrab pa ? that is a very short time. blo bzang rdo rje - very funny guy. all the students would love it. was professor in Beijing mi rigs slob grwa chen po. died in 1987 (?) in lhasa. must constantly compose new acts each year, less it becomes stale. no wraiters in the office. so others like phun tshogs bkra shis (, bsod nam tshe ring (bod ljong sgyu rtsal zhib ?jug khang), nyi ma don grub (gtam brjod tshogs pa) write them. then the two sob ta adjust, and then sit down with writer and do it from memory. how often to do it? if go to village, then perform 2-3 timese in a day. they no longer perform in nang ma not even once. the lesser comics can go in nang ma, but they are not allowed. primarily sent to villages. for comics, need excellent bod yig, less they can?t even read the scripts. must speak lhasa. acting skills, voice. so now difficulty, mos diffuclt is bod yig. cha rkyen: bod skad yag po ? bzang po, tsik po, gtso bo nyams smyong, lag len yag po dgos. spyi tshogs gnas tshul gang ga shes dgos. klad pa sprug po ? must now when to respond, interact precisely. must also like the work, otherwise it won?t come. the younger comics don?t like to memorize all the Tibetan. but when get older, brain is worse and very hard to memorize words/script ? morning you get, but by afternoon forget. now they are telling govt that for the young guys with tehse qualifications, need to gather them togethera nd train them. in shigatse and lha kha are some good comics a b it younger, but also old themselves. shigatse: don grub and srid dar (sidar ? one recovered from srid diseases, so srid (?) thar). two comics. shigatse rig rtsal tshogs pa. lho kha: comics stobs rgyal (very old), bskal bzang yon tan (young). they work together. without stobs rgyal, bskal bzang yon tan will just dance.

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·Sub-series: Ordinary Conversation (2 titles)

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Series: Religion in Lhasa (lha sa) (5 titles)   collection details | view all titles

·Sub-series: Monastic Religion (5 titles)

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Series: Medicine in Lhasa (lha sa) (100 titles)   collection details | view all titles

·Sub-series: Medical Problems (10 titles)
·Sub-series: Dental Problems (4 titles)
·Sub-series: Expressing Physical Pain (22 titles)

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Series: Greetings and Goodbyes (16 titles)   collection details | view all titles

·Sub-series: Greetings in Amdo (4 titles)

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Series: Thieves' Island (18 titles)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Lhasa Resident Interviews   collection details | view all titles

This is a collections of titles THDL has converted into full instructional units for Tibetan language students.

Series: Intermediate Lhasa Colloquial (2 titles)   collection details | view all titles

This is a collection of readings of Tibetan literature such as by poets as well as scholars orally commenting on a variety of Tibetan texts from modern to classical genres.

Series: Tibetan Buddhist Philosophical Literature (1 title)   collection details | view all titles

·Sub-series: Debate literature

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Series: Poetry Readings   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Poetics and Poetry Interpretation (2 titles)   collection details | view all titles

·Sub-series: gsang bdag Diagram Poems

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Series: Historical Literature (33 titles)   collection details | view all titles

·Sub-series: Oral Commentaries on the Fifth Dalai Lama's History (29 titles)

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Series: Biographies (2 titles)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Short story and Novel readings   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Nyingma literature traditional oral commentaries   collection details | view all titles

·Sub-series: nyi ma rgyal mtshan-mi pham's sher 'grel ke ta ka

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Series: Astrology (1 title)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Art Literature (1 title)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Medical Literature (1 title)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Gesar of Ling Epic (1 title)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Ritual Literature   collection details | view all titles

·Sub-series: Festival Literature

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Series: Bon Literature Traditional Oral Commentaries (2 titles)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Sakya Literature Traditional Oral Commentaries   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Traditional Buddhist Narrative Literature (1 title)   collection details | view all titles

·Sub-series: Jataka Tales (1 title)

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Series: Linguistic and Grammatical Literature   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Kagyur Literature Traditional Oral Commentaries   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Philosophical Literature (1 title)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Epic Literature   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Modern Tibetan Literature Unit (26 titles)   collection details | view all titles

·Sub-series: ljang bu (tshe ring rdo rje) (26 titles)
·Sub-series: bkra shis dpal ldan (from rin spungs, gtsang)

This collection presents several different styles of Tibetan music from eight different regions.

Series: Tibetan Nangma Music (8 titles)   collection details | view all titles

·Sub-series: Tibet University Nangma Group (5 titles)
·Sub-series: Nangma, nightclub setting (3 titles)

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Series: Music in Panam (104 titles)   collection details | view all titles
Music in Panam, including the villages of Sokhang and Tinjor, and the music of the Sokhang Quintet

·Sub-series: Panam Quintet (49 titles)
·Sub-series: Sokhang village (43 titles)
·Sub-series: Tinjor Village (12 titles)

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Series: Music of Lhatse (53 titles)   collection details | view all titles

·Sub-series: Drado from Lhatse (23 titles)
·Sub-series: Lhatse Group (13 titles)

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Series: Music of Amdo (13 titles)   collection details | view all titles

·Sub-series: Amdo Mandolin, artist Nyima Donma (nyi ma sgron ma (13 titles)

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Series: Music in Lhasa (36 titles)   collection details | view all titles

·Sub-series: Tashi from Lhoka
·Sub-series: Lhasa Roofers (17 titles)
·Sub-series: Dorje, dramnyen player (19 titles)

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Series: Gesar Epics   collection details | view all titles

·Sub-series: Yumay on Gesar Epic
·Sub-series: Samdrup on Gesar Epic

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Series: Music in Basum (78 titles)   collection details | view all titles

·Sub-series: Cipa (11 titles)
·Sub-series: Tsomjuk (21 titles)
·Sub-series: Tsongo (9 titles)
·Sub-series: Duma (21 titles)
·Sub-series: Gyara
·Sub-series: Mukpa (16 titles)

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Series: Music in Ngari (80 titles)   collection details | view all titles

·Sub-series: Korcak Circle Dancers (4 titles)
·Sub-series: Zhide Group (19 titles)
·Sub-series: New Ruthok Town (11 titles)
·Sub-series: Old Ruthok (13 titles)
·Sub-series: Langmar
·Sub-series: Cakcik
·Sub-series: Drongpa
·Sub-series: Yakra
·Sub-series: Nomad Songs (33 titles)

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Series: Music by Genre (165 titles)   collection details | view all titles

·Sub-series: Drinking songs (chang gzhas) (34 titles)
·Sub-series: "West" song (stod gzhas) (22 titles)
·Sub-series: "Fast" songs ('khrug gzhas) (6 titles)
·Sub-series: Ceremonial songs (gzhas chen) (18 titles)
·Sub-series: Folk songs (dmangs gzhas) (5 titles)
·Sub-series: Folk songs (glu) (22 titles)
·Sub-series: Dancing songs (zhabs bro) (20 titles)
·Sub-series: Pastoral songs (glu gzhas) (16 titles)
·Sub-series: Classical songs (nang ma) (3 titles)
·Sub-series: Narrative songs (rnam thar) (2 titles)
·Sub-series: Dramnyen-dance songs (sgra snyan zhabs bro) (3 titles)
·Sub-series: New Year songs (lo gsar gzhas) (6 titles)
·Sub-series: Work songs (las gzhas) (5 titles)
·Sub-series: Wedding songs (2 titles)
·Sub-series: General songs (1 title)

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Series: Music in Shigatse (37 titles)   collection details | view all titles
folk music from the Shigatse region, with most recordings coming from Panam (see sub-series)

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Series: The Music of Porong (44 titles)   collection details | view all titles
See the individual subseries for more detail.

·Sub-series: The Royal Music of Porong (44 titles)

The Naga Videodisc was created in the late 1980s at Cambridge University under the direction of Professor Alan Macfarlane. It was a multimedia resource, including most of the known ethnographic material about the Naga ethnic groups living in the Assam and Arunachal Pradesh districts of India and parts of Burma.

Series: Business (2 titles)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Talking about Jobs   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Hiring and Qualifications   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Store Signs   collection details | view all titles

Series: Tibetan Opera   collection details | view all titles

This collection presents introductions to cultural regions and places in Tibet as given by scholars or residents, and ranging from broadly defined areas to a single neighborhood. It also includes all variety of lectures that concern the contemporary situation or history of a given place in Tibet.

Series: Ngari (mnga' ris) (2 titles)   collection details | view all titles
We are gathering formal lectures that are intended to provide introductions to Tibetan regions and places. Our plan is to include academics who are anthropologists and historians familiar with the region/place in question, but also include inhabitants from all walks of life talking about places they live in. Ultimately we plan to systematically cover the principal ethno-linguistic regions of Tibet, subregions, and then specific places within those subregions; to a lesser extent, we plan to also deal with contemporary political administrative units. In this way, it will allow Tibetans to present their own places from their own point of views. In addition to formal interviews/lectures, we are also documenting cultural life and events in these places. However, this collection is limited to formal lectures, interviews, or guided tours of places, i.e. materials in which the place itself is the formal subject of speech. Simple place-based searches can easily produce titles in other series that were shot in any given place discussed in the present collection. Thus at present, we have ?academic lectures?, ?residents interviews?, and ?guided tours? as subseries. It seems likely we will also want to organize these things instead by subregions, etc. Or the ?Monasteries of Lhasa?, with same items also found within the respective neighborhoods of Lhasa in which they are located. And so forth. So we have to keep an eye on this. Here again we see the value of GDMS for this. Make Collections for every region level down to point of village potentially.

·Sub-series: The mnga' ris Region of Cultural Tibet (2 titles)

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Series: Lhasa (16 titles)   collection details | view all titles
Get descriptions of neighborhoods in Lhasa, or conversations about them, or someone in a strategic point pointing out stuff.

·Sub-series: History of lha sa (3 titles)
·Sub-series: se ra Monastery
·Sub-series: Nyara Neighborhood
·Sub-series: zhol Neighborhood (4 titles)
·Sub-series: bar skor Neighborhood (1 title)
·Sub-series: rme ru snying pa Neighborhood
·Sub-series: karma dgon gsar Neighborhood (3 titles)
·Sub-series: nor bu gling ka Neighborhood (5 titles)
·Sub-series: The gling skor Circumambulation
·Sub-series: rme ru gsar pa

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Series: rgya ma Township   collection details | view all titles

·Sub-series: Lectures and Interviews on rgya ma History
·Sub-series: Contemporary rgya ma

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Series: grib   collection details | view all titles

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Series: tshal gung thang   collection details | view all titles

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Series: brag gsum   collection details | view all titles

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Series: bzang mo (1 title)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: gzhis ka rtse (2 titles)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: lho kha (5 titles)   collection details | view all titles

Series: Music (44 titles)   collection details | view all titles

·Sub-series: The Royal Music of Porong (44 titles)

Series: Lectures on Entertainment in Tibet   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Picnicking in Tibet (4 titles)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Sports in Tibet   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Sexuality in Tibet (2 titles)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Games in Tibet (4 titles)   collection details | view all titles

Series: Philosophy (2 titles)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Ritual (2 titles)   collection details | view all titles

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Series: Festivals (1 title)   collection details | view all titles

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