Art & Material Culture


  • Engaging Digital Tibet
    Created by the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, working together with Professor Gray Tuttle, to enhance the teaching and learning of Tibetan material history. The site contains an advanced, searchable repository of Tibetan objects, as well as unique features for creating and sharing descriptive annotations about the objects and their significant parts, allowing for a collaborative decoding and description of Tibetan culture itself.
  • Himalayan Art Resources
    Online educational resource with over 25,000 images of Tibetan tankas from collections worldwide, searchable by image, data, and lineage, as well as links to other Tibetan art sites. Articles by Tulku Thondup, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Peter Della Santina, David Jackson and Moke Mokotoff supplement the images. Maintained by the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation in collaboration with Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center and Wisdom Publications.  An excellent online resource for traditional Tibetan art.
  • ExploreArt (Rubin Museum of Art)
    Interactive site to explore thangka and other artistic images by theme, time, and place.  An excellent online resource for traditional Tibetan art.
  • The Mechak Center for Contemporary Tibetan Art

C.V. Starr
East Asian Library

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