ART AND MATERIAL CULTURE

ENGAGING DIGITAL TIBET

Engaging Digital Tibet was 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.

Research Materials For the Study of Tibetan and Himalayan Art

Note: This section of the site is under construction.

Traditional Tibetan Art

For two excellent online resources for traditional Tibetan art, please see the following:

Himalayan Art Resources

http://www.tibetart.org/

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 TibetanBuddhistResourceCenter and Wisdom Publications.

ExploreArt (RubinMuseum of Art)
http://www.exploreart.org/
Interactive site to explore thangka and other artistic images by theme, time, and place.

Contemporary Tibetan Art

The Mechak Center for Contemporary Tibetan Art