Padmasambhava played a pivotal role in merging Buddhism with Tibet's pagan religion, Bon.

Initially, Buddhism faced resistance in Tibet, but Padmasambhava's teachings led to harmony.

#Buddhism #TibetanHistory #Padmasambhava #AhjanSamvara #Spirituality #lojong #AjahnSamvara

Prosopography of the Tibetan Empire ...according to Old Tibetan sources.

The "Prosopography of the Tibetan Empire" blog seems to have resumed some activity lately

tibetanempire.blogspot.com
#tibetanhistory
#tibetanempire
#innerasia

📕 New translation:

ངག་དབང་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་གྱི་སྟག་ལུང་ཆོས་འབྱུང་དབྱིན་ཡིག་ཏུ་བསྒྱུར་བ།

Wondrous ocean of eloquence: histories of the Taklung Kagyu tradition. Gyurme Dorje (trans.). Boulder: Snow Lion, 2025. 👏👏

SRC ID: sakyaresearch.org/sources/6468

#tibetanstudies #tibetanhistory #tibetantranslation #kagyu #taklung

A Tibetan princess photographed in 1879, during a period of increasing British interest in the region amid Qing dynasty influence over Tibet. Her attire reflects the rich cultural heritage of Tibetan nobility. #Tibet #TibetanHistory #QingDynasty #19thCentury #HistoricalPhotography

Another modern depiction of blon po mGar sTong rtsan, at the Norbulingka institute

#TibetanHistory

Tombs of Tibetan emperors in the Chongye valley ('Phyong rgyas), 2002

#Tibet #tibetanhistory #innerasia

#བོད

📕 New publication

ས་སྐྱའི་གདུང་རབས་ཆེན་མོ་དབྱིན་ཡིག་ཏུ་བསྒྱུར་བ། པོད་དང་པོ།

The amazing treasury of the Sakya lineage. Volume 1.
Kunga Sherab, Matthew King. Somerville, Mass.: Wisdom Publications, 2024. 👏

SRC ID: www.sakyaresearch.org/sources/6343

#tibetanstudies #sakyapa #tibetanhistory #tibetantranslation

Persian Name in a Bon History, Anenhar in Drenpa’s Proclamation

Another highly motivating post on tibeto-logic.blogspot.com

#tibetanhistory #innerasia #sogdian

tibeto-logic.blogspot.com/2024/11/pers...

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🎙️#TibetanStudiesTalks NOW! International Conference on the Northern Treasures, 17 & 18 October, 2024, @Inst_IFRAE Program here: https://t.co/uBhzGqTDbG Zoom link: https://t.co/FewTjq3Fsg #tibetanhistory #tibetanstudies #buddhiststudies #jangter

📙 Some Buddhist Studies publications from the Lumbini International Research Institute (LIRI) available for download: https://t.co/hVUbVlwn39 Rare texts from Tibet (contents): https://t.co/zNGsR6qOqP #OA #tibetanhistory #tibetanbiography #tibetanstudies #buddhiststudies

📰New article

by @wiselange and Y. Lhendup👏

🗺️On the Harrer collection of 17 historical Tibetan maps depicting areas in Kham, Arunachal Pradesh, Amdo & southeastern Tibet (Lhokha), preserved at the VMZ @musethno

#tibetanstudies #tibetanhistory #tibetanmaps https://t.co/tFC1OY1QpK

📕Latest @dharmaebooks on the [b]Tsum valley [SE of Kyirong], ed. by the Tsum Research Group, Nepal སྦས་ཡུལ་ཙུམ་གྱི་ཡིག་མཛོད་བཀྲ་ཤིས་དཔལ་བཟང་། ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཞིབ་འཇུག་ལོ་ཙཱ་ཚོགས་པ།
Pdf/epub download https://dharmaebooks.org/tag/tsum/ #tibetanstudies #tibetanhistory #tibetanbiography #tsumvalley

📽️ film release:

གོང་དཀར་རྔ་འཆམ་ཆེན་མོ།
The Gongkar Great Drum Dance (2023), a documentary film by Lobsang Damdul

Now released on TibetTV @tibetonlinetv:
https://youtu.be/watch?v=-e_vCslYZVc

#tibetandance #drumdance #tibetanhistory #dzongpa #sakyapa

📕 Two new online #OA publications by Roberto Vitali (Dharamsala: Mutag Books, 2024) 👏 1. Essays on the History of Tibet
2. Early bKa' brgyud pa Masters on the "Upper side" (1191-1344) PDFs available at http://vitali-tibet.com/ #tibetanstudies #tibetanhistory #kagyupa #ngari

📕 upcoming publication by @vajra_books A Concise History of the Glorious Sakyapa School by Chogye Trichen Rinpoche. Translated by David Jackson. Kathmandu, Nepal: Vajra Publications. #tibetanstudies #tibetantranslation #tibetanhistory #sakyapa #tsharpa

new 📕: བོད་དང་ཁུ་ནུ་བར་གྱི་འབྲེལ་བའི་སྐོར། Bod dang khu nu bar gyi 'brel ba'i bgro gleng tshogs 'du'i gsung bshad dang dpyad rtsom phyogs bsgrigs. Dharamsala: Tibet Policy Institute, CTA, 2022. #tibetanstudies #tibetanhistory #ngari #khunu #spiti #westerntibet #westernhimalaya

#BuddhistStudiesTalks ཧོར་གོང་མའི་ཕོ་བྲང་དུ་བོད་ཡིག་བསྟན་བཅོས་མཛད་པ་པོ་གསུམ།
Tibetan writers at the Yuan court, lecture by Gedun Rabsel (28/06/2022) @TibetanLibrary ☁️https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YMhBVXxN4g #tibetanstudies #tibetanliterature #sakyapa #tibetanhistory #tibetantranslation

🧾new open access journal:

བོད་ཀྱི་རྩོམ་རིག་དུས་དེབ། Journal of Tibetan Literature
First issue released! 👏👏👏
https://www.journaloftibetanliterature.org

#tibetanstudies #tibetanhistory #tibetanliterature #tibetantranslation #OA twitter.com/tibetanlit/status/159294...

😮A multi-volume publication said to contain 1,394 facsimiles of original documents from the TAR Archives. ...just added an entry to the database: https://t.co/qf6zM1Tm3B

For its contents see https://t.co/v41ygNTxAp

#tibetanhistory #tibetanstudies #chinesestudies #tibetandocs

📙new publications 📨Nice surprise from Dzongkar Choede in the postbox today🙏 The Biographies of Bla chen Chos dpal bzang po (2018), Bkra shis rgya mtsho (2022) and Don yod rdo rje (Gurupura, Mysore: Zongchoe Library, 2022). #tibetanbiography #tibetanhistory #gelugpa #sakyapa

📕new publication: 🛕Gateway to the temple: a manual of Tibetan Buddhist monastic customs, art, building and celebrations [REVISED EDITION]
David Jackson. Kathmandu, Nepal: @vajra_books, 2022. #tibetanstudies #tibetanhistory #tibetanart #tibetantranslation #nalendrapa #tsharpa

new @oeaw #OA publication 📘Early West Tibetan Buddhist monuments: architecture, art, history and texts. Christian Jahoda & Christiane Kalantari eds., Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2021.🥳 https://verlag.oeaw.ac.at/product?info=18611 #tibetanhistory #tibetanart #tibetanstudies #ngari

#BuddhistStudiesTalks Book presentation: 🗓️13th Dec. 2021, 5:30 pm Marta Sernesi, Re-enacting the past: a cultural history of the school of gTsang smyon Heruka. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2021. #tibetanstudies #tibetanhistory #tibetanprinting #kagyupa https://t.co/hhHOBSBI5c

🎂🎉Congratulations to the 70th birthday & thanks to the editors for this wonderful Festschrift!👏👏👏

#tibetanstudies #tibetanhistory #tibetanart #sakyapa

new repository: The many Tibetan legal documents collected & digitized under Peter Schwieger are online again at @CrossAsia 👏https://dtab.crossasia.org The DTAB database holds >4440 handwritten documents in scan & Unicode transcription #tibetanhistory #tibetanstudies #tibetandocs

publication for download: 📕The history of the Sakya tradition. Bristol: Ganesha Press, 1983. Chogay Trichen. #ChogyeTrichen Transl. into English by Jennifer Stott.
☁️Upload by Sachen Foundation🙏 https://t.co/uyFxDsor9U #tibetanhistory #sakyapa #tibetantranslation

Tibetan Graduate Studies Seminar

#BuddhistStudiesTalks

The Tibetan Graduate Studies Seminar @OrientStudiesOx
on zoom 👨‍💻👩‍💻👨‍💻👩‍💻

Previous lectures here: podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/tibetan-graduate-...

#tibetanstudies #tibetanhistory twitter.com/BroxTrine/status/1386661...

new publication:
📕The Sakya Jetsunmas: the hidden world of Tibetan female lamas. Elisabeth A. Benard. Tsechen Kunchab Ling & Sapan Fund, 2021.
👏👏👏 #tibetanhistory #tibetanstudies #sakyapa #sakyajetsunma twitter.com/pchilimzam/status/135333...

Dan Martin's Tibetan Histories - Buddhist Digital Resource Center For close to 25 years now, a leading resource in Tibetan Studies has been Dan Martin’s Tibetan Histories: A Bibliography of Tibetan-Language Historical Works, Serindia Publications (London 1997).

🎁What a wonderful pre-Christmas gift from Dan! The 1997 publication had around 700 entries, while this new digital edition has around 1260.🗃️

Here is the link to the downloadable doc and pdf files:

https://t.co/66HKKHN1pn

#tibetanliterature #tibetanhistory #tibetanstudies #OA https://t.co/b