🚨Important new Tibetan Studies account for everyone to follow.

PaganTibet@pagantibet.bsky.social · 10mo ago

📜 🔍 Paper Alert ‼️ Our first Handwritten Text Recognition article about our collaborative workflow is now out in the Journal of Open Humanities Data openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.... More about our project on our brand new website: www.pagantibet.com

Himal Southasian’s coverage of the revolution in Nepal

Himal Southasian@himalsouthasian.bsky.social · 12mo ago

What's happening in #Nepal, as covered by the @himalistan.bsky.social team: a thread

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Best news in days: an impressive Tibetan reading room opened within UVA's newly renovated Edgar Shannon Library. Worthy of a name like བཤད་སྒྲུབ་ནོར་བུ་དགའ་ཚལ or ངེས་དོན་དགའ་བའི་ཚལ

Michael Sheehy@mclsheehy.bsky.social · last yr.

thrilled that we have a new Tibetan reading room in the University of Virginia Library :

Religion Call For Papers (relcfp)@relcfp.com · last yr.

LECTURE> "Why Does Tangut Buddhist Studies Matter?, Tibetan Buddhist Scholasticism Through the Lens of Tangut Texts" https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20064127/why-does-tangut-buddhist-studies-matter-tibetan-buddhist-scholasticism #acrel #aarsbl #sblaar

An earthquake? In Dublin, CA? On St. Paddy’s Day? Groundbreaking

March 14, 2025 is a major Buddhist holiday known as the Display of Miracles (ཆོ་འཕྲུལ་དུས་ཆེན Chotrul Düchen). BDRC is celebrating with the publication of a collection that is something of a modern day miracle: prints of a new set of woodblocks of the Nyingma Gyubum recently carved in Derge, Tibet.

I think LOTS more freezes are forthcoming in the next few days, including from institutions with enormous endowments that haven’t been announced yet. The slow-moving higher ed crisis is now a landslide. Hard to envision a recovery of the U.S.’s university system…

Shoji YAMADA@yamadashoji.bsky.social · last yr.

I was shocked to know that Harvard froze a Japanese collection librarian post at the Yenching Library due to the Federal budget cut☹️

Photo album of epic road trip from Chengdu to Lhasa in 1985

Andrew West 魏安@babelstone.co.uk · 2y ago

For the Spring Holiday of 1985, during our year studying at the Beijing Language Institute (2nd year of SOAS Chinese degree course), my roommate (APB) and me decided to go on a big adventure overland from Chengdu to Lhasa 1/🧵

The Church Fixer www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/b... Many Buddhist congregations and nonprofits need a bodhisattva like her.

The Church Fixer

Thousands of churches around the country close every year. In Brooklyn, one pastor is trying to help struggling parishes keep their doors open.

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📢 New Book Alert! Dive into Rivers of the Asian Highlands: From Deep Time to the Climate Crisis. This multidisciplinary examination of the upper Brahmaputra and Yangzi rivers systems offers a unique “braided river” approach. 🌊📚 #RiverScience. Here’s what’s in the book, chapter by chapter. 🧵1/11

X/Twitter has really become unbearable. Thanks to @marcomaroni.it's simple programme, I was able to transfer most of my tweets (136) from Twitter/X to 🌤️@bsky.app Note that all tweets up to this point have been imported. #newhere Programme and instructions on github: github.com/marcomaroni-...

GitHub - marcomaroni-github/twitter-to-bluesky: Import all tweets exported from X/Twitter to a Bluesky account.

Import all tweets exported from X/Twitter to a Bluesky account. - marcomaroni-github/twitter-to-bluesky

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Not many of us yet, but here's a starter pack for Tibetan & Himalayan Studies. Give a shout if you'd like to be added or know of others who should be included. go.bsky.app/QLFmW2S