Collection consists of color 35mm slides of Tibetan Buddhist monks and monasteries in Ladakh, India. Collection also includes field notes and logs.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Provenance:
Received from the National Anthropological Film Center in 1986.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection consists of film and photographs taken by Richard Kenneth Saker of Tibetan New Year (Losar) and of Western Tibet 1942-1943. Collection also includes chapters from his unpublished memoir relating to his tour of duty in Tibet.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Biographical / Historical:
Richard Kenneth Saker was the British Trade Agent posted to Gyantse, Tibet from 1941-1943.
Provenance:
Received from Stephen Saker in 2008.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Edited and outtakes materials from the films TIBETAN BUDDHISM: PRESERVING THE MONASTIC TRADITION and materials shot in 1981 of the Initiation into the Kalachakra Tantra by His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet, recorded in Dharamsala India and Madison, Wisconsin. Collection also contains sound recordings.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Provenance:
Received from Edward Bastian in 1986.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Dong qu xi lai : 11-14 shi ji Zang chuan jin tong fo xiang jing pin zhan = From the west to the east : exhibition of selected 11th to 14th century Buddhist statues / Xiong Wenbin zhu bian ; Ye Lingyi fu zhu bian
Title:
东去西来 : 11-14 世纪藏传金铜佛像精品展 = From the west to the east : exhibition of selected 11th to 14th century Buddhist statues / 熊文彬主编 ; 叶灵毅副主编
From the west to the east: exhibition of selected 11th to 14th century Buddhist statues
11-14 shi ji Zang chuan jin tong fo xiang jing pin zhan
Li shi de jian zheng : Xizang bo wu guan cang li dai zhong yang zheng fu zhi Zang wen wu ji cui = The Witness of History : A collection of cultural relics concerning the successive central governments governing Tibet preserved in Tibet Museum = Lo rgyus kyi dpang rtags : Bod-ljongs rten rdzas bshams mdzod khang nas nyar tshags byas paʼi krung dbyang srid gzhung rim byung gis Bod don ʼdzin skyong gnang baʼi skor gyi rig dngos gces btus / He Xiaodong zhu bian
Title:
历史的见证 : 西藏博物馆藏历代中央政府治藏文物集萃 = The Witness of History : A collection of cultural relics concerning the successive central governments governing Tibet preserved in Tibet Museum = Lo rgyus kyi dpang rtags : Bod-ljongs rten rdzas bshams mdzod khang nas nyar tshags byas paʼi krung dbyang srid gzhung rim byung gis Bod don ʼdzin skyong gnang baʼi skor gyi rig dngos gces btus / 何晓东主编
Xizang bo wu guan cang li dai zhong yang zheng fu zhi Zang wen wu ji cui
西藏博物馆藏历代中央政府治藏文物集萃
Witness of History : A collection of cultural relics concerning the successive central governments governing Tibet preserved in Tibet Museum
Lo rgyus kyi dpang rtags : Bod-ljongs rten rdzas bshams mdzod khang nas nyar tshags byas paʼi krung dbyang srid gzhung rim byung gis Bod don ʼdzin skyong gnang baʼi skor gyi rig dngos gces btus
An ma ne ba mi hong : Yuan cang Zang zhuan Fo jiao wen wu = Oṃ-maṇi-padme-hūṃ : Tibetan Buddhist Art in the National Palace Museum / zhu bian Song Zhaolin
Title:
唵嘛呢叭咪吽 : 院藏藏傳佛教文物 = Oṃ-maṇi-padme-hūṃ : Tibetan Buddhist Art in the National Palace Museum / 主編宋兆霖
Oṃ-maṇi-padme-hūṃ : Tibetan Buddhist Art in the National Palace Museum
Yuan cang Zang zhuan Fo jiao wen wu
院藏藏傳佛教文物
Tibetan Buddhist art in the National Palace Museum
Awaken : a Tibetan Buddhist journey toward enlightenment / John Henry Rice and Jeffrey S. Durham ; with additional essays by Jeffrey S. Durham, Eric Huntington, Elena Pakhoutova, Katherine Anne Paul, Tsherin Sherpa with Paul Ferguson, and Alexander von Rospatt