Title: 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
Places: Tibet Region, New York, Tibet Autonomous Region (China), India, Kālimpong (India), India Kalimpong, Kalimpong
People: G. Tharchin (1890-1976), Lama Anagarika Govinda (1898-1985)
Time periods: 20th century, 20th century |v Sources