Community Links

Welcome to the Community section of Resources in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies. This section is not fully operative, but we have opened it with reference to a few major resources.

Community section of The Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library (http://orion.lib.virginia.edu/thdl/community/index.html)

Community section of The Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library: The Community section of the Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library offers extensive facilities dedicated to documenting people and organizations active in relationship to Tibet and the Himalayas. This includes an interactive roster where people and organizations can post their own descriptions, the present guide to Web resources pertinent to Tibet and the Himalayas. However, it was just launched in June 2003, and at present the impressive technology is not matched by equally impressive content.

Resource type: · communication, online guide
Content classification: Reference: Bibliographies: Web links, Community: Communication: Mailing Lists, Community: Communication: Discussion Forums
Interface language: English
Other language(s): Tibetan
Region: Tibet
Web site rating: Very useful
Reviewed by: David Germano on June 14, 2003

Nitartha International (www.nitartha.org/)

Nitartha International is one of the most prominent institutions involved with digital initiatives in the Tibetan religious world. It has been one of the leaders in providing high quality fonts and input software, as well as inputting Tibetan texts into electronic versions and organizing translation and reference projects for Tibetan Buddhism. Their Web site provides an attractive guide to their operations and goals. Nitartha is the source of one of the main Tibetan fonts in use internationally (Sambhota 1 and 2), as well as excellent word processing software (1 is available for free download, while the cross-platform 2 is sold). It also provides documentation for using Tibetan script with HTML, and a database utility for viewing electronic Tibetan dictionaries. Few of their other resources are available on-line at present (such as their electronic texts).

Resource type: · organizational info, tools, documentation, commericial,
Content classification: Community:Institutions:General, Tools: Fonts and input tools: Tibetan, Tools: Databases, Tools: XML & HTML
Publisher: · Non-government organization
Interface language: English
Other language(s): Tibetan
Region: Tibet
Web site rating: Useful
Reviewed by: David Germano on June 14, 2003

Surmang Foundation (http://www.surmang.org)

The Surmang Foundation is developing an intiative to bring medical clinics to all remote regions in China and network them via internet connectivity.

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Region: Qinghai province
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Tibetan-Studies-L (tibetan-studies-L@coombs.anu.edu.au)

Tibetan-Studies-L is one of the most important mailing-lists for exchange of scholarly and factual information dealing with Tibet at present, because its subscription includes many of the major scholars in the field. As of writing it had over 540 subscribers, mainly from Universities and research institutes. While not a high volume list, postings are generally responded to with expert responses. This moderated electronic forum was established on 8 Dec 1995 by the RSPAS, The Australian National University.

Resource type: communication
Content classification: Community: Communication: Mailing lists.
Publisher: Academic
Interface language: English
Region: Tibet
Web site rating: Essential
Reviewed by: David Germano on June 14, 2003