The Tibetan Studies Collection at Columbia University

The Asian Division of the Library of Congress is now accepting applications for its annual Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship for 2025. This year’s deadline is midnight January 12, 2025. More information, including how to apply online, is on the Asian Reading Room website. We have also posted the announcement on our 4 Corners of the World Blog.

This short-term fellowship in any field of Asian studies provides an opportunity to conduct research in the Asian Reading Room of the Library of Congress in Washington DC. Open to faculty, undergrad and grad students, librarians, independent researchers – any and all (no institutional affiliation necessary). Please especially share with early career students and scholars who do not have access to travel funds for research.

The Asian Division’s Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship: Now Accepting Applications for 2025 | 4 Corners of the World The Asian Division is now accepting applications for its Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship, which supports short-term research visits to the Asian Reading Room at the Library of Congress. This year's application deadline is midnight Sunday, January 12, 2025.

Please mark your calendars for our upcoming SFEMT lecture:

Tibetophone rap in and out of Tibet

with Martin Hanker (Charles University Prague)
The 14 November at 18:00 via Zoom (https://shorturl.at/ryQZ2)

We are excited for this upcoming talk by Pema Tso, Chief Editor of the བོད་ཀྱི་དུས་བབ། Tibet Times newspaper.
This Friday, October 25, at 2 pm. In-person only, please register at link in announcement below.

Please join us on Friday to hear from Pema Tso, Chief Editor of the "Tibet Times" who will discuss news reporting in the Tibetan diaspora community.

Note: This event is in-person only. Please register early (by Oct. 23) so that we can request an on-campus QR Code for you to access the Morningside Campus: https://tinyurl.com/PemaTsoMTSP

Don't miss this special event with Bhuchung D. Sonam, writer, editor, publisher, and co-founder of TibetWrites. In-person and online.
Register here: https://mtsp.weai.columbia.edu/events/exile-writing-and-home-bhuchung-d-sonam

Join us this Friday, October 11 with Bhuchung D. Sonam to explore how Tibetan exiles find that their displacement, despite its hardships, becomes fertile ground for creative expression.

This event is part of a series: Cultural Production in the Tibetan Diaspora.

THIS WEEKEND, Sept. 21-22:
Please join us for the finale event of our year-long film series tribute to the late Pema Tseden. Three young Tibetan filmmakers will be in attendance to screen their films and take part in discussions and a roundtable. Reserve your (free) tickets today!

Co-sponsored by Columbia University's Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University: Modern Tibetan Studies Program , and the Columbia University School of the Arts

LEGACIES: Pema Tseden & New Tibetan Cinema Series Finale—Films by the Next Generation | Modern Tibetan Studies Program Current and Upcoming LEGACIES: Pema Tseden & New Tibetan Cinema Series Finale—Films by the Next Generation Share Add to Calendar: Google Yahoo Finale Poster September 21, 2024 - September 22, 2024 3:00 PM - 9:00 PM Event time is displayed in your time zone. Lenfest Center for the Arts Join us for ...

Also in September in NYC: a Pema Tseden retrospective at the Museum of the Moving Image

Pema Tseden – Museum of the Moving Image One of the most exciting and inspiring filmmakers to emerge so far this century, the Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden died last year in mid-career, at 53. This series covers his career, from the artful realism of his earlier films, which explored the early 21st century lives of rural Tibetans in the Pe...

The finale event of our year-long film series tribute to the late Pema Tseden. We hope you can join us in celebrating a new generation of filmmakers!

Co-sponsored by Columbia University's Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University: Modern Tibetan Studies Program, and the Columbia University School of the Arts

We invite you to on-campus screenings of films by the next generation of Tibetan filmmakers on Saturday, September 21 and Sunday, September 22 at Lenfest Center for the Arts.

A beautiful map of Sikkim and Tibet!

Mountains and contested borders This mysterious and beautiful map of Sikkim and Tibet has been in the Bodleian Library for at least 83 years, described briefly in the catalogue as dating from the 19th century and in Hindi. The fi…

The Library of Congress introduces a new research guide for their Tibetan Collections!

New research guide: Tibetan Collections at the Library of Congress

This guide (https://guides.loc.gov/tibetan-collection/?loclr=fbint) introduces the rich Tibetan holdings available in the Asian Reading Room, as well as representative holdings in various other Library reading rooms related to Tibetan studies. The guide includes links to Tibetan digital collections, rare books, and event videos, and offers search strategies on how to use the collections. For questions, please contact Tibetan collection staff through Ask a Librarian (https://ask.loc.gov/asia/?loclr=fbint).

VENUE CHANGE: Our screening on Friday, February 23, of Pema Tseden's BALLOON is now being screened at Lenfest Center for the Arts. We hope you can join us in exploring and celebrating Pema Tseden's film legacy.

Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScLhJvuxV6989Wcobw_XE_HSnm5h1BZrO24qD-zq1jAzgImPw/viewform

Join us for the screening of Pema Tseden's 2019 film, BALLOON, our third screening in the year-long LEGACIES series, a tribute to the late filmmaker.

Click on link to REGISTER.
https://mtsp.weai.columbia.edu/events/screening-balloon-pema-tseden

Reminder for NYC-area friends! Join us this Thursday for a screening of Pema Tseden's critically-acclaimed film OLD DOG.
For more details and to register, visit:: https://mailchi.mp/ab9d987fe772/nyingdep-16642799?fbclid=IwAR2Zvz7HmHrPixHMhcGvC6jmiOs9Y28Ukal3iPB2uQzqOqkuUnT_aOQZL7U

Screening of Old Dog - https://mailchi.mp/ab9d987fe772/nyingdep-16642799

Part of the year-long Legacies series, a tribute to the late Pema Tseden https://tibet.columbia.edu/events/legacies-pema-tseden-new-tibetan-cinema

Screening of Old Dog - https://mailchi.mp/ab9d987fe772/nyingdep-16642799

Announcing an upcoming talk on Tibetan-language AI on January 19, with Geshe Lobsang Monlam, PhD, of Monlam AI.
In-person and online.
https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/starr/2024/01/08/upcoming-talk-on-tibetan-language-ai/

This event is co-sponsored by C.V. Starr East Asian Library and the Columbia University: Modern Tibetan Studies Program

On December 5, University of Toronto Libraries hosted a special event to commemorate the 10th year anniversary of the Tibetan Studies partnership between Columbia University Libraries and UTL. Since the partnership was established in 2013, the Tibetan Studies Librarian serves both institutions in collection development and reference services. Jim Cheng, Director of the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, and Tibetan Studies Librarian Kristina Dy-Liacco attended the event, and presented remarks along with Larry Alford, Chief Librarian for UTL, Hana Kim, Director of the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, UTL, and UT faculty Professor Rory Lindsay, who gave a keynote talk. Our sincere thanks to our colleagues and friends at UTL for the warm and engaging program, and to those students, faculty, and community members who attended.