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We are in urgent need of moderators. We are also willing to open new mailing lists if there are interested moderators. Please contact us if you are interested. See THDL Mailing List Guidelines for guideines for moderators and users of THDL mailing lists.

THDL hosts both discussion forums and mailing lists to facilitate communication within the field of Tibetan and Himalayan studies, as well as discussions and updates within THDL. The discussion forums are centered on topics under which postings are organized and held exclusively online rather than via email. All topics and postings are archived and can be searched. Mailing lists, in contrast, are not organized formally into topics beyond, but rather proceed via emailed announcements and questions, to which responses or comments can be emailed as well. All email can also be archived for later inspection. Both discussion forums and mailing lists thus have distinct virtues and limitations, such that at THDL we have chosen to employ both.

We are currently utilizing mailing lists largely for announcements and updates, and promoting the use of the discussion forums for most discussion and dialog. We have done this since we believe that discussion forums are a better organized and more coherent medium for tracking discussions, while mailing lists are better for announcements of various types since they are delivered directly into people's inboxes.

The current page outlines THDL's own mailing lists, as well as other useful mailing lists for Tibetan and Himalayan Studies. We invite interested parties to send their mailing lists for advertisement here following the format below. THDL lists employ a web-based interface called Mailman, which offers an attractive interface for subscribing, editing your account information, consulting the archive of previous messages posted, and sending a message to the list. To use THDL list simply click on the hyper-linked name of the list below. You will be taken to the integrated page for that list which allows for subscription and use. You can read a general introduction to Mailman and user instructions. For THDL list owners, administer your site at http://list.mail.virginia.edu/mailman/admin/list_name, ( replace list_name with the name of your list ).

    

General Interest Lists

Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies: this list-serve has two purposes: 1) to enable the Association to rapidly disseminate news, information, and Association business to the membership, and 2) to provide a forum for members to post requests, inquiries, and information pertaining to research and teaching about Nepal and the Himalaya to the Association at large. To subscribe to the list-serve, send an email to Himal-research-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

NepalInquiry: this THDL-hosted mailing list is restricted to Nepal Studies academic specialists, and provides a means for quick questions such as email addresses, or bibliographical references, or other items requiring short, discrete answers rather than discussion topics.

THAnnouncements: this THDL-hosted mailing list is open to all for viewing and submitting, but submissions are moderated to filter out non-relevant postings or postings not of sufficient interest to the broader community. The focus is on intellectual, education and artistic events, including publication, exhibits, and conferences; the scope does not cover news. It covers both Tibet and the Himalayas, and is not limited to THDL-related announcements.

TibetanTexts: this THDL-hosted mailing list is open to all for subscription or sending messages. However messages should be factual and restricted to the availability of Tibetan texts in Tibetan language, NOT translations. It is intended to alert people to new text discoveries, new releases of Tibetan texts on Web sites, ways to purchase Tibetan texts, and so forth. It is not intended to serve as a general inquiry list for trying to find Tibetan texts - it is only to provide information about new text availability.

Tibetan-Studies-L: this Australian National University-hosted mailing list is a general purpose list that tends to cater to academically oriented announcements and inquiries, and is driven by subscriber postings. To subscribe, send email to: majordomo@coombs.anu.edu.au with the message: subscribe Tibetan-Studies-L <your email address>. To unsubscribe, send email to: majordomo@coombs.anu.edu.au with the message: unsubscribe Tibetan-Studies-L<your email address>.

TibetInquiry: this THDL-hosted mailing list is restricted to Tibetan academic specialists, and provides a means for quick questions such as email addresses, or bibliographical references, or other items requiring short, discrete answers rather than discussion topics.

World Tibet Network News: this Canada Tibet Committee-hosted mailing list collates on a daily basis English-language news items from across the world on any topic concerning Tibet. To subscribe, send email to: listserv@lists.mcgill.ca with the message: SUB WTN-L <yourname>. To unsubscribe, send email to: listserv@lists.mcgill.ca with the message: SIGNOFF WTN-L. These news digests are also archived at http://www.tibet.ca.

TIN News update: this Tibet Information Network-hosted mailing list disseminates periodic reports on political issues. See http://www.tibetinfo.net for subscription information.

    

Specialized Lists

IATS Forum: a closed list restricted to members of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, the premier academic organization for Tibetan studies.

Tibetan-English Electronic Dictionary User Group

Tibex: a list intended for specialists with advanced knowledge of Tibetan scripts and character encoding issues to discuss issues relating to Tibetan Unicode. To subscribe, send mail to ecartis@unicode.org and put "subscribe tibex" in the subject line.

Zhang Zhung Studies Forum: a list intended for academic specialists interested in Bön and issues pertaining to Zhang Zhung. It is hosted by Yahoo and moderated by Henk Blezer. It is not currently heavy volume.

    

THDL Update Lists

These lists are devoted to providing updates on developments within THDL, and are open to subscription by anyone though email can be posted only by THDL representatives.

JIATS: provides an announcement for the release of new issues of the Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies as well as other news related to the journal.

THDLGeographyUpdate: provides updates on developments within THDL's Cultural Geography initiatives, which may be more frequent or less frequent than once a month.

THDLTibetanLiteratureUpdate: provides updates on developments within THDL's Tibetan literature initiatives, which may be more frequent or less frequent than once a month.

THDLTibetanUpdate: provides updates on developments within THDL's Tibetan language initiatives, which may be more frequent or less frequent than once a month.

THDLToolsUpdate: provides updates on updates of software, fonts and tools within THDL that may be relatively frequent. We suggest anyone using THDL fonts or software subscribe so they won't miss important new revisions or new tools as they become available.

THDLUpdate: provides a general once a month (at most) update on developments within THDL overall. We urge everyone to subscribe since this is the only list providing a broad overview of THDL work updates. It is the single list we advise people to subscribe to if they want to follow the broad development of THDL with a very small volume of messages

    

THDL Participant Lists

These lists are restricted to specific THDL participants for use in managing THDL, or for specialists to have focused discussions with THDL participants on specific topics. If you are not subscribed but think you should be, please request a subscription by following the links.

JIATSBoard: a closed list for communication to and amongst the editorial board of the Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies.

THDLBoard: a closed list intended for communication amongst the guiding board of directors for THDL.

THDL-Fulltimers: a closed list intended for communication to and among full-time staff working on THDL.

THDLGIS: a closed list intended for communication upon THDL collaborators working on GIS. It is limited to active partners in THDL-GIS, not simply people interested in GIS.

THDLStaff: a closed list intended for communication to and among staff working on THDL. This is not intended for scholars, but rather staff members involved deeply in the technical and administrative support details of THDL.

THDLTech: a closed list intended for communication upon THDL collaborators working on technology. It is limited to active partners in THDL-tech, not simply people interested in technology.

TibRef: a closed list limited to experts with a deep knowledge of Tibetan language/literature and actively involved in the creation of reference resources relating to Tibetan language. This includes primarily dictionaries, but also encyclopedias, gazetteers, and other references resources based upon Tibetan language. The list is intended especially to help facilitate community and synergy between individuals and projects interested in collaboration and the open sharing of knowledge in such areas.

TibetScript: TibetScript is a closed list intended for communication upon experts on all issues pertaining to Tibetan script in general, and in computing environments. This includes the implementation of Unicode Tibetan and translation of computing interfaces into Tibetan language, such as for Open Office or Linux. It is limited to individuals with specialized knowledge and interest in such issues, and is not for casual interest. It is NOT limited to THDL participants, however, and we welcome any one with specialized background to join. This includes both technologists working intensively on the use of Tibetan script in computers and scholars with strong backgrounds in Tibetan scripts. The general, though not exclusive, focus is on a collaborative and open-ended project to document Tibetan script.

    

Local Interest Lists

We are happy to list more local mailing lists of universities, foundations, monasteries, libraries and so forth. Please send us your information at thdl@virginia.edu following the format of other listings provided herein.

TibetUVA: this list is to announce events and issues pertaining to Tibetan Studies which are happening at the University of Virginia. It is not to be used for events happening elsewhere - it is a local list of interest only to people at Virginia, or people interested in events happening at Virginia.