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Libraries, Archives : Tibet

This pathfinder includes information about libraries and archives in Tibet.

Created and maintained by the
 Asian Division
Collections and Services Directorate


Asian Classics Input Project  (http://www.asianclassics.org/)
The website offers the result of ten years effort to create a digital Tibetan library, with thousands of pages of texts, reference materials, and links to other projects.

Collections (Asian Division Reading Room)  (http://www.loc.gov/rr/asian/collections.html)
The home page of the Library of Congress Asian Division contains a brief description of the Tibetan collection in its custody and a link to the LC-ALA transliteration table for Tibetan.

The Coombsweb  (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/)
The Coombsweb system is a Social Sciences and Asian Studies networked research facility which provides information about ANU's Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies and Social Sciences, links to e-journals, virtual libraries, and other online research tools.

DunHuang Manuscripts  (http://idp.bl.uk/IDP/idp1.html)
This is the website for the british Library's International DunHuang Project, which includes rare Tibetan texts, and information on valuable conservation efforts.

Library of Congress Office, New Delhi, India  (http://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/)
The website of the Library of Congress New Delhi Office offers information on the South Asia Cooperative Acquisitions Program (SACAP, formerly PL-480), which supplies Tibetan publications for participant libraries, and includes an online serial database.

Nitartha International  (http://www.nitartha.org/home.html)
This website offers access to a digital Tibetan library of important texts, as well as language and software links.

PL480 Microfiche Online Search  (http://www.toyo-bunko.or.jp/Tibetan/PL480QueryE.html)
This database, produced by the Toyo Bunko, allows searching the Library of Congress PL480 Tibetan collection using Wylie transliteration and a keyword approach, with LCCN numbers given.

Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center  (http://www.tbrc.org/)
This website contains E. Gene Smith's extensive database of Tibetan literature and serves as the main access point to an evolving digital archive of texts, as well as links to other important digital archive projects.

The Tibetan and Himalayan digital library  (http://iris.lib.virginia.edu/tibet/frameset.html)
An international community using Web-based technologies to integrate diverse knowledge about Tibet and the Himalayas for free access from around the world. Provides an integrated environment for digital publication of many diverse projects; includes multilingual studies, multimedia learning resources, and creative works concerned with the area's environments, cultures, and histories.

U.S. Library of Congress Online Catalog.  (http://catalog.loc.gov/)
The Library of Congress has a comprehensive collection of Tibetan literature which can be searched in the online catalog using title, author, or keywords entered in LC-ALA transliteration, or searchable by LC subject headings. The catalog also includes comprehensive resources on Tibet, and Tibetan religion and culture in Western languages.

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  September 19, 2005
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