Web Resources

• Biological Diversity in the Himalayas
• Himalayan Art Resources
• Journals of Himalayan Studies
• Tibet from the Collections of the American Geographical Society Library
  
  

Powerpoint Presentations & Digital Slide Shows

2004

• Practical Orientation and Overview of the Curriculum Orientalism and the Study of Asia, Asian Religions, and the Himalayas; Geology and the Physical Geography of the Regions; Frontier Zone Theory
• Central Place and Trade Theory; Major Culture Regions: Kashmir, Nepal, Eastern Himalayas, Tibet; Languages and Writing
• Hinduism: Overview of Core Doctrines and Practices
• Basic Doctrines, and Practices
• Mahayana Buddhism; The Himalayas in the Buddhist Imagination
• Ancient Kashmir and Nepal: History of the Himalayan Culture Centers up to 1200 CE; Buddhism, Hinduism, & Indigenous Traditions
• Ancient Tibet: Cultural and Political History up to 1100 CE; Bön
• Medieval Tibet: History up to 1600 CE; Bön Tradition
• Kashmir and Nepal up to the Modern Era; State Formation in the Himalayas, the Creation of the Gorkhali State, Sikkim, Bhutan
• Women in the Himalayas [1]: Householders & Nuns
• Community, Environment and Social Action in the Himalayas [1] [2]
• Forum on Developments in Contemporary Kashmir, Tibet, Nepal

2006

• Orientation, Overview, Geology, and Geography Regions, Theories, Himalayan Languages
• Orientalism and the Study of Asia, Asian Religions, and the Himalayas
• Hinduism: Overview of Core Doctrines and Practices, esp. those in the region [1] [2] [3]
• Life of Buddha: Basic Doctrines
• Mahayana Buddhism; The Himalayas in the Buddhist Imagination
• Ancient Kashmir and Nepal: History of the Himalayan Culture Centers up to 1200 CE; Buddhism, Hinduism, & Indigenous Traditions
• Ancient Tibet: Cultural and Political History up to 1100 CE; Bön
• Medieval Tibet: History up to 1680 CE; Bön Tradition
• Kashmir and Nepal up to the Modern Era: State formation in the Himalayas, the Breation of the Gorkhali State, Sikkim, Bhutan
• Buddhism and Hinduism in the Kathmandu Valley [1] [2]
• Shamanism in the Himalayas; The Anthropology of the Maoist Insurgency
• Practices of Tibetan Buddhism; Traditions of the Tibetan Frontier Peoples [Maoism] [Shamanism]
• Women in the Himalayas: Theravada Nuns in Nepal
• Community Forestry in Nepal at the Cross-Roads: Where Do We Go?
• Nepal in Transition and Transformation
• Art in the Himalayas
      - Ephemeral Art
      - Tibetan Painting Technique
      - Techniques and Media
      - Tantric Buddhism
      - Second Propagation of Buddhism