Isara C. Argent
Isbell Middle School at Santa Paula Elementary School District
The Naga in Science, Story, and Song

 

 

Social Studies

Games

http://www.tibetgame.com/

Kamat's Potpourri of India

http://www.kamat.com/index.htm

Travel

http://www.thecaravanoflight.com/index.html

Geography

http://www.himalayas.dk/index.html

Birth of Mountains

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/everest/earth/shock.html

 Maps / free stuff

http://www.maps.com/FreeStuff.aspx?nav=FF#

Links to outline maps

http://arapaho.nsuok.edu/%7Eziehr/resource/outlinemaps.html

http://geography.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=geography&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eduplace.com%2Fss%2Fmaps%2F

Himalayan Hike Game

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/india/html/hike.html

Includes a Game

http://www.askasia.org/

 

Science/Animal Sites

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/usr/mongoose/www/rtt.html

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/historyoflife/histoflife.html

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evohome.html

King Cobra

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/kingcobra/index-n.html

http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listcobrasda.html

 

Language Arts

 Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Links

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000JLX5/103-4307945-2511059?v=glance&n=404272

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=585

Jataka Stories

http://www.buddhanet.net/bt1_conts.htm

http://www.newyorkbuddhist.org/jataka_stories/

http://www.watthai.net/talon/jataka/jataka.htm

Indian sourcebook: life of Buddha from Jataka tales: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/buddha-life.html

Love in Classical & Medieval India: A bibliography

http://www.montclair.edu/risa/biblio/b-love.html

A Current Play, Naga Mandala

http://www.hindu.com/fr/2004/08/27/stories/2004082702760300.htm

A Movie: Devi
India 1999
Directed by Kodi Ramakrishna.

A modern, big budget "special effects" Indian film about a man who falls in love with a Snake Goddess, and the consequences that ensue. Romance, music, snakes, and really big snakes.

http://www.illuminatedlantern.com/cinema/review/archives/devi.php

Ethnographic Music From Tibet (link from there to other ethnographic music projects)

http://www.cla.umn.edu/twocities/rprojs/tibetan/tibetans.asp

Tibetan singer, Zombo La

http://www.cla.umn.edu/twocities/rprojs/tibetan/zombo_la.asp


Pictures and Art

Interesting slide show of Indian and Islamic (Indira Ghandi) images

http://ignca.nic.in/asp/showbig.asp?projid=ag02

Art in India-- history

http://www.upgov.nic.in/upinfo/cult_heri1.html

Some nice public photos

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rameshgurung/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/schmabbie/sets/72157594185805944/

http://www.art-and-archaeology.com/india/museums/dnm7.html

Reference to Naga gods

http://ignca.nic.in/ex_0058.htm

*** Lots of Naga stuff

http://www.khandro.net/mysterious_nagas_2.htm

 

Interactive Color Wheel

http://r0k.us/graphics/SIHwheel.html

 

Religion

 Religion in South Asia Website

http://www.montclair.edu/risa/

 Hotlists on world religions

http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listworldrewa.html

http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listreligionmr5.html

 

Hinduism

Online Hindu Temple

http://www.rudrakshanepal.com/puja_in_nepal.php

Buddhism

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/buddha-life.html

http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-ADM/shaw.htm

http://www.acay.com.au/~silkroad/buddha/h_tantric.htm

A Hidden temple in Tibet

http://asianart.com/articles/baker/index.html#1

 

Lesson Plan Links

http://marcopolo.k12.ca.us/

Filamentality

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This site was created by Isara Argent at the NEH Summer Institute "Cultures and Religions of the Himalayan Region," held at the College of the Holy Cross, Summer 2006