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Monday, 5 May 2014

TBRC Core Text Collection - 11


Bodleian now has online access to, and the hard drive of,
the TBRC Core Text Collection number 11,
the 2014 collection.



TBRC statement re CTC 11:
" Among these 1,000 volumes selected from the TBRC Library,
this Core Text Collection includes works across a broad range of subjects and genres.
In particular, this collection emphasizes selections from Tibetan literature on monastic curricular textbooks (yig cha) detailing the 5 classical subjects of Indian and Tibetan Buddhist learning along with
over 150 volumes of different commentarial writings.
Major sub-themes include over 100 volumes on life writing (rnam thar),
over 50 volumes on religious and local cultural history (chos ‘byung and lo rgyus),
and over 40 volumes of scholarly reference materials (dpyad yig),
including multilingual dictionaries (tshig mdzod) and orthographic compendiums (dag yig).
There are numerous works about Tibetan medicine (gso rig),
polemical discourse (dris lan),
personal advice (gdams ngag),
instruction texts (khrid yig) of all kinds,
and several narrative works from the great Central Asian epic Gesar of Ling.
Larger collections include 16 different collected works (gsung 'bum)
and 10 compilations of miscellaneous writings (gsung thor bu), each by individual Tibetan authors,
as well as 20 composite volumes (phyogs bsgrigs). "


Friday, 25 April 2014

5th Dalai Lama conference event


Friday 2nd May, 16.30 - Saturday 3rd May, 13.00
@ Wolfson College, Oxford
launch event of Samten Karmay's
'The Illusive Play: The Autobiography of the 5th Dalai Lama'
with talks by several international Tibetan scholars
(programme link below)







Thursday, 17 April 2014

Snellgrove Chair for Tibetan & Buddhist Art

Breaking News: Christian Luczanits will join SOAS in the autumn 
as David L. Snellgrove Senior Lecturer in Tibetan and Buddhist Art

Dr Luczanits website link 

Monday, 31 March 2014

Tibetan Corpus Linguistics project

New research on Tibetan linguistics presented at SOAS,  financed by AHRC.
Audio files of the presentations available at the link below:
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2014/03/tibetan-in-digital-communication/
Dr Nathan Hill in action presenting the research project results


Ulaanbaatar 2013

Bodleian Libraries was represented at the 2013 conference of IATS XIII (International Association of Tibetan Studies), held this year in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia.

IATS participants 2013 @ Ulaanbaatar
(click on photo to enlarge it)
Charles Manson (Bodleian Libraries) gave a presentation in the Tibetan Information Technology panel, on

Development of a digital catalogue of the 
Bodleian Tibetan manuscripts: 
Bod Karchak @ the Bod.


 [Bod (pronounced bรถd )  is the transcribed Tibetan language word for Tibet, 
as well as being the 'nickname' for the Bodleian - a quirky pun.
'Karchak' is the Tibetan word for catalogue or table of contents: dkar chag.]

The presentation Powerpoint file is here



Tsong-kha-pa new set @ Bodleian


Set of Tsong-kha-pa works, gsung 'bum, now in Bodleian Library.


Set derived from 5 manuscripts and a blockprint, all in Potala collection.
See library catalogue record for the set at
http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=OXVU1&docId=oxfaleph019657707 


Tuesday, 16 April 2013

Gene Smith Green Books @ Bodleian



The minute (as in 'tiny', not 'time') memory stick containing Gene Smith's Green Books in PDF files recently arrived at Bodleian, as the library had agreed a couple of years back to participate in the sponsoring project.



The files are now installed on the Oxford Weblearn site, with kind technical assistance from Anne Simmons. The site for reading the works is accessible through logging in with Oxford Single Sign-On (SSO).
All the works are copyright.
                             Link:

A listing of the 69 volumes is here:

Listing of Green Books on TBRC website
[on subsequent website,
click through on  'Associated Works' tab]


Incidentally, I had the good fortune to drop in on TBRC a week after they had moved back to Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2012, and consulted the books there...



Below are photos of some of the team @ TBRC that were there at the time -
a heartfelt thugs rje che to them for the excellent work they do.