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RESOURCES FOR TIBETAN HISTORICAL
RESEARCH
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This section presents the bibliographic research and compilation of Professor Gray Tuttle, and focuses on materials that are especially useful for historical research. The categories of reference-types are listed below with links to individual pages. In addition to these Tibet-specific sources, students are also encouraged to search historical databases via the CU Libraries' Databases portal in CLIO. For example, the EBSCO database Historical Abstracts offers citations, abstracts, and links for publications related to world history, excluding the U.S. and Canada, from 1450 to the present. (Dissertations and articles relating to Tibet are many.) Please realize that access to many online databases are by university subscription, and will require log-in with a Columbia University Network ID (UNI).
Religious and Geographic Surveys - survey histories of the religious schools and broader geographic areas, such as Amdo, Ngari, etc.
Local Histories - In addition to an extensive bibliography, this section also includes the link to "Official Chinese Sources on Recent Tibetan History: Local Gazetteers, Wenshi Ziliao, and CCP Histories," compiled and annotated by Columbia University graduate student Benno Weiner. This 20-page guide covers eastern Tibetan regions in Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, and lists holdings at Columbia University and several other library institutions.
Imperial Records
Archives and Archival Materials - focuses on non-imperial sources, collections of documents at Kundeling, and other institutions
Field Reports and Memoirs
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