Geographic Resources

Environmental and Cultural Geography Collection

The Environmental and Cultural Geography of Tibet and the Himalayas provides place-based access to a rich array of maps, ethnography, historical research, social data, environmental data and multimedia.

Featured Projects: Sera Hermitages | Drepung Monastery | Meru Nyingba Monastery

THDL Projects View an index of our Cultural Geography projects


Places and Cultures

  • Cultures

  • A hierarchical map of cultures in the region with associated resources.

  • Political Units

  • Contemporary nations and associated resources.

  • Place Portals

  • A list of THDL portal pages for places with substantial resources.

  • Monasteries

  • The portal for Tibetan Monasteries provides historical and contemporary documentation via textual and visual resources.

  • THDL Feature Thesaurus

  • A provisional thesaurus of types of features in region.