Engaging Digital Tibet

Partner(s): Gray Tuttle East Asian Language and Cultures Released: TBA In development.

Engaging Digital Tibet offers students the ability to work with Tibetan source materials and participate directly with Tibetan history scholarship in an online environment. CCNMTL developed this project in partnership with Gray Tuttle, an assistant professor of modern Tibetan studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, to allow students to examine the intersections of trade, craftsmanship, art, religion, and politics in Tibet.

The online environment includes digital collections, mapping and annotative tools, and individual workspaces, which allow students to synthesize archival material into object biographies. These biographies tell the stories of past peoples and cultures in a uniquely grounded way: an object serves as a basis for developing a narrative about the time, place, and people who participated in the creation of culture. Student-created biographies will be made available to classmates, future students of Tibet culture, and the public. Engaging Digital Tibet provides new ways to interact with digitized objects from Columbia University Libraries and project partners, such as the Rubin Museum of Art and the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art.

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