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Alternative Medicine Foundation, Inc.
"...is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, founded in March 1998 to provide responsible and reliable information about alternative medicine to the public and health professionals."

  • TibetMed
    "For Tibetan Medicine Information and Research"
    Sections include: Ask Doctor Namseling ; Question & Answer Library ; Medical Schools & Training ; Conferences, Courses, & Events ; Professional Resources ; Related Links.

The Art of Tibet
 "...seeks to preserve the sacred art of the Himalayas. This art has its genesis in the sacred traditions which gave rise to the profound and ancient cultures of Tibet and its neighbors during the past thousand years...[Includes] Over one thousand Tibetan Buddhist tangkas, dating from the 12th to19th century...Over thirty-five tangkas of the Bon religion dating from the 15th to 19th century. Yungdrung Bon, still extant today, was predominant in Tibet prior to the introduction of Buddhism in the 8th century."

Art of Tibetan Sand Painting - (dead link)
"In a marriage of high tech and ancient ceremony, Tibetan Buddhist monks intricately began building a sand painting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on Feb. 4, 1996. A camera suspended above them sent live images to the World Wide Web."

Columbia University - Starr East Asian Library
Sections include: China ; Japan ; Korea ; Tibet ; East Asia
Each section includes information, links, and details about the collection.

Imaging Everest
"To mark the anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953, the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) in conjunction with the British Council in Nepal has created an exhibition called Imaging Everest from its collection of approximately 20,000 photographs taken on the nine Mount Everest Expeditions between 1921 and 1953. These expeditions were jointly organized by the Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club. The exhibition shows the importance of the landscape and people of the Himalayan region and tells the story of those involved in the first attempts to climb Everest ...This website provides an online version of the Imaging Everest exhibition and enables people all over the world to share this remarkable collection of photographs.
Sections include: The History of Everest ; Everest Expeditions in the 1920s and 1930s ; Tibetan People ; Religion in Tibet and Nepal ; Nepal in the 1950s ; Sherpas ; Tenzing and Hillary ; Mount Everest Expedition 1953 ; Biographies ; Everest Slideshow.
- The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

International Campaign for Tibet (ICT)
"...works to promote human rights and self-determination for Tibetans and to protect their culture and environment."

International Trust for Traditional Medicine (ITTM) - (dead link) (West Bengal, India)
"...creates an international study network on traditional medical cultures of various regions, promoting education, research and documentation, through its International Research Circles (IRCs)."

  • AyurVijnana - (dead link)
    Periodical on Indo-Tibetan Medical Cultures
  • Projects
    • Glossary Database of Sanskrit & Tibetan Medical Terms with English Equivalents - (dead link)
      "derived from Ashtanga Hridaya Samhita by Vagbhata (7th century) and its Tibetan translation yan brgyad pa'i snying po bsdus pa by Richen Zangpo and Janardana (11th century)"
    • Bibliography of Tibetan Medical Literature
    • Data Input Project of Tibetan Medical Texts and Tibetan Medical Digital Research Archive
    • Tibetan & Mongolian Bibliography of Medical Texts

The Nanda Devi Campaign - (dead link)
"For Cultural Survival & Sustainable Livelihoods in the High Himalayas"
"The communities surrounding the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve invite you as their very special guest to share in the grandeur of their blessed mountain home. As part of your virtual tour, make sure to visit each section of this site to understand their struggle for social and environmental justice, stopping finally to support efforts to achieve a sustainable livelihood for the inhabitants of Nanda Devi through community-based eco-tourism."

  • The Nanda Devi Biodiversity Conservation and Eco Tourism - (dead link) (October 2001)

Resource Guide for Tibetan Medicine
By Subhuti Dharmananda, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Traditional Medicine, Portland, Oregon.

Tibet Information Network (TIN)
"...is an independent news and research agency, which monitors and reports on the political, social, economic, environmental and human rights situation in Tibet today."

Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library
"...is an international community using Web-based technologies to integrate diverse knowledge about Tibet and the Himalayas for free access from around the world."
Sections include: Reference ; Education ; Community ; Collections ; Tools.
- University of Virginia Library

Tibetan Buddhist Links - (dead link)
From the Google Web Directory

Tibetan Studies WWW Virtual Library
"This document keeps track of leading information facilities in the field of Tibetan studies. It is a part of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library and of its specialist subsection, the East Asia WWW Virtual Library"
Edited by T. Matthew Ciolek and John C. Powers


 

 

 


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