Tibetan Studies Special Collections at Columbia University

Description:

Digital collection of archival and other rare Tibetan Studies holdings, primarily in the C.V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University; includes documents and photographs from the Tharchin Collection and the Lama Anagarika Govinda papers, 1945-1993, as well as some materials from the Tibet Information Network (TIN) Archives and the Meg McLagan Collection. Additionally, the Collection includes digital images of some fifty rare books and a limited amount of audio-visual materials, such as lectures by Tibetan Buddhist teachers, and oral-history and related interviews with Tibetan and Chinese scholars and cadres in China and with Tibetans living in exile on their lives and historical events in the 20th century.

subjects: Sources,  Archives,  New York (State),  Tibet Region,  History,  Newspaper publishing,  Social conditions,  Tibetans,  Politics and government,  Tibet Mirror Press

People: G. Tharchin (1890-1976),  Lama Anagarika Govinda (1898-1985)

Places: Tibet Region,  New York,  Tibet Autonomous Region (China),  India,  Kālimpong (India),  India Kalimpong,  Kalimpong

Times: 20th century,  20th century |v Sources