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Events overview Research Seminar Programme Previous Research Seminars Cambridge Mongolia Forum 2022

People

People overview Staff Affiliates Visitors Recent PhDs Associate Members

Onon Prize

Onon Prize overview Fifth Onon Prize Awarded to Professor Yuki Konagaya Fourth Onon Prize Awarded to Professor Manduhai Buyandelger Third Onon Prize Awarded to Professor Christopher Atwood First and Second Onon Prizes: Roberte Hamayon and Charles Ramble

Research Projects

Research Projects overview Trading Mongolia's Sovereign Meat Himalayan Connections The West Mongolia Initiative

Resource frontiers: managing water on a trans-border Asian river

Resource frontiers: managing water on a trans-border Asian river overview Objectives New Approaches Mongolian Research Sites Russian research sites Chinese research sites Partner Institutions and Project Advisory Group

Publications

Publications overview Resource frontiers: managing water on a trans-border Asian river: Reports from the Field

Selenge Maps and Photos

Selenge Maps and Photos overview A cable platform carrying people and animals across Selenge river, northern Mongolia [1930s] A train running along Selenge river, northern Mongolia [1940s] A village on the bank of Selenge river, Northern Mongolia [1930s] Logs transported through Selenge river, Selenge province [1930s] Selenge river, Central Mongolia [1930s – 1950s] Selenge river, Central Mongolia [1930s – 1950s] Selenge river, northern Mongolia [1930s] Selenge river, Selenge province [1930-1950s] Transporting loads and animals by a cable platform, Selenge river, Northern Mongolia [1940s] Baikal prayer centre at Selenga Delta Praying water spirits lusad Water spirits Lusad of Selenga River Offerings to water spirits Historical map of the Selenge river Newly built cattle farms Sacred cairn (ovoo) and tenth century statute near banks of the Selenga in Bulgan province, Mongolia Selenga in central Mongolia (spring 2023) The Selenga in Bulgan province, Mongolia

Mongolian Cosmopolitical Heritage: Tracing Divergent Healing Practices Across the Mongolian-Chinese Border

Mongolian Cosmopolitical Heritage: Tracing Divergent Healing Practices Across the Mongolian-Chinese Border overview Project Summary in Mongolian Script Project Summary in Cyrillic Script The ‘Nine Black Ingredients’ Pill: COVID-19 Prophylactic in Mongolia Re-framing Therapeutic Arts Conference: Event Report

Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project

Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project overview People Acknowledgements

Pathways to understanding the changing climate

Pathways to understanding the changing climate overview Cambridge Interdisciplinary Research on the Environment Acknowledgments Database Research methods Fieldwork Sites Publications Opening Workshop 2014 Sensing Landscape Exhibition 2016 Policy Workshop 2016 Curriculum Workshop 2016 PGCE 2017

Where Rising Powers Meet

Where Rising Powers Meet overview Media: Presentation by Professor Caroline Humphrey Media: Presentation by Sayana Namsaraeva Outputs

Places

Places overview Baunt Blagoveshchensk and Heihe Heihe Hulun Buir Hulun Lake Hunchun Khabarovsk and Vladivostok Kyakhta Manzhouli Mardai Naikhin and Tongjiang Suifenhe Tunka Vladivostok Zabaikalsk

Climate Histories

Climate Histories overview Aims and Objectives

Oral History of Twentieth Century Mongolia

Oral History of Twentieth Century Mongolia overview Монголын 20-р Зууны Аман Түүх Project overview Project Themes The Interview Process The Pilot Project The Project Team

Transforming Technologies and Buddhist Book Culture

Transforming Technologies and Buddhist Book Culture overview Activities People Tools Links Exhibition

About

About overview Acknowledgments Institutions

A Tibetan Woman Lama and her Reincarnations

A Tibetan Woman Lama and her Reincarnations overview Project Outputs Collaboration The Life of Chokyi Dronma (Chos kyi sgron ma) according to her biography From sacred princess and divine emanation to cadre Chokyi Dronma's Places Mural Paintings & Illuminations

Tibetan and Mongolian Rare Books and Manuscripts

Tibetan and Mongolian Rare Books and Manuscripts overview Project Background Aims History Mongolian Materials Catalogue of Tibetan Manuscripts and Blockprints

Tibetan Materials

Tibetan Materials overview Tibet Materials - Detail

Tibetan Book Evolution and Technology

Tibetan Book Evolution and Technology overview Style of Editions Woodcut Illustrations Wood Analysis Acknowledgements People Institutions Links Database Map

Printing Houses

Printing Houses overview Brag dkar rta so rDzong dkar Kun gsal sgang po che Khams gsum g.yul las rnam rgyal pho brang / Khams gsum rnam rgyal A ti sha’i chos ‘khor (La ‘debs Valley) Glang phug (La ‘debs Valley) La phyi mDzo lhas / ‘Dzo lhas gNas Chab rom phug Shel dkar rTsib ri bSam gtan gling Grod phug

Activities

Activities overview Events Lectures Outreach Publications

The Padgling Traditions in Bhutan

The Padgling Traditions in Bhutan overview The Project Outputs The tradition The main establishments Background Teachings

Incarnation lines

Incarnation lines overview Gangteng Tulku Line The Peling Sungtrul Line The Peling Thugse Line

Resources and Collections

Resources and Collections overview

Library

Library overview Library Database

Publications

Publications overview Inner Asia Book Series

Inner Asia

Inner Asia overview Inner Asia: Open Access

Members' publications

Members' publications overview On the Edge: Life along the Russia-China Border Between the Buddha and the New Tsar Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia Drones, Tones and Timbres Humans, Dogs and Other Beings Restless Quietists A Chinese Rebel beyond the Great Wall. China's Camel Country Evil Spirits and Rocket Debris

Inner Asia: Archive

Inner Asia: Archive overview Buryatia, Kalmykia and Tuva

Inner Mongolia

Inner Mongolia overview Media/News Original Documents (including translations)

Research on the Environment

Research on the Environment overview Research in the Community Healthy Waterways Orkney: Beside the Ocean of Time Blowing in the Wind Useful Links Teaching Resources

Climate Histories Seminar Series

Climate Histories Seminar Series overview The Road to Paris 2015 Seminar Series 2015-2016 Previous seminars
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    Research Seminar Programme Previous Research Seminars Cambridge Mongolia Forum 2022

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People overview
    Staff Affiliates Visitors Recent PhDs Associate Members Onon Prize

Research Projects

Research Projects overview
    Trading Mongolia's Sovereign Meat Resource frontiers: managing water on a trans-border Asian river Mongolian Cosmopolitical Heritage: Tracing Divergent Healing Practices Across the Mongolian-Chinese Border Himalayan Connections The West Mongolia Initiative Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project Pathways to understanding the changing climate Where Rising Powers Meet Climate Histories Oral History of Twentieth Century Mongolia Transforming Technologies and Buddhist Book Culture A Tibetan Woman Lama and her Reincarnations Tibetan and Mongolian Rare Books and Manuscripts Tibetan Book Evolution and Technology The Padgling Traditions in Bhutan

Resources and Collections

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3rd Biennial Cambridge Mongolia Forum 2026

24 September 2026 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP

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Onon Prize Lecture – Nicola Di Cosmo

24 September 2026 4:00pm to 5:30pm Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP

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