COLUMBIA ONLINE RESEARCH GUIDE FOR MODERN TIBETAN STUDIES

The COLUMBIA ONLINE RESEARCH GUIDE FOR MODERN TIBETAN STUDIES was compiled by Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Assistant Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, and published for use on Library Web by Lauran Hartley, Tibetan Studies Librarian. It is a navigational tool for library patrons at Columbia University and elsewhere to access bibliographies and other noteworthy resources covering a wide range of subjects in the field of Tibetan Studies. Drawn from an extensive syllabus compiled by Professor Tuttle for his seminar "Sources for Modern Tibetan History," the Online Guide in its current version is exceptionally strong in its survey of resources for historical research.

The right-hand toolbar provides additional links for other subjects: History, Social Sciences, Religious Studies, Language and Literature, Art, and Music. These sections are still under development, and it is our hope that advanced graduate students or other scholars might contribute bibliographies for their areas of specialty—or suggest useful titles not mentioned here. Benno Weiner, for example, has authored a critical survey of Chinese-language sources for the local histories of Tibetan areas in the People's Republic of China (PRC).

All call numbers refer to holdings in the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, unless otherwise noted. For many titles, direct links are provided to the bibliographic record in CLIO, the online library catalog of Columbia University. For titles unavailable at Columbia, students and faculty are encouraged to consult WorldCat to determine if the item is held at another institution and to request it through Borrow Direct or Interlibrary Loan.

For questions or suggestions pertaining to this Online Guide or to accessing materials in the Tibetan Collection at Columbia University, please contact the Tibetan Studies Librarian at lh2112@columbia.edu.