🚨Important new Tibetan Studies account for everyone to follow.

Himal Southasian’s coverage of the revolution in Nepal

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Best news in days: an impressive Tibetan reading room opened within UVA's newly renovated Edgar Shannon Library. Worthy of a name like བཤད་སྒྲུབ་ནོར་བུ་དགའ་ཚལ or ངེས་དོན་དགའ་བའི་ཚལ

An earthquake? In Dublin, CA? On St. Paddy’s Day? Groundbreaking

March 14, 2025 is a major Buddhist holiday known as the Display of Miracles (ཆོ་འཕྲུལ་དུས་ཆེན Chotrul Düchen). BDRC is celebrating with the publication of a collection that is something of a modern day miracle: prints of a new set of woodblocks of the Nyingma Gyubum recently carved in Derge, Tibet.

I think LOTS more freezes are forthcoming in the next few days, including from institutions with enormous endowments that haven’t been announced yet. The slow-moving higher ed crisis is now a landslide. Hard to envision a recovery of the U.S.’s university system…

Photo album of epic road trip from Chengdu to Lhasa in 1985

The Church Fixer www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/b... Many Buddhist congregations and nonprofits need a bodhisattva like her.

📢 New Book Alert! Dive into Rivers of the Asian Highlands: From Deep Time to the Climate Crisis. This multidisciplinary examination of the upper Brahmaputra and Yangzi rivers systems offers a unique “braided river” approach. 🌊📚 #RiverScience. Here’s what’s in the book, chapter by chapter. 🧵1/11

X/Twitter has really become unbearable. Thanks to @marcomaroni.it's simple programme, I was able to transfer most of my tweets (136) from Twitter/X to 🌤️@bsky.app Note that all tweets up to this point have been imported. #newhere Programme and instructions on github: github.com/marcomaroni-...

Not many of us yet, but here's a starter pack for Tibetan & Himalayan Studies. Give a shout if you'd like to be added or know of others who should be included. go.bsky.app/QLFmW2S