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

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Selenge Maps and Photos

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  • 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]
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  • Praying water spirits lusad
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  • 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

Pathways to understanding the changing climate

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  • Opening Workshop 2014
  • Sensing Landscape Exhibition 2016
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Where Rising Powers Meet

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  • Media: Presentation by Sayana Namsaraeva
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  • Baunt
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  • Kyakhta
  • Manzhouli
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  • Naikhin and Tongjiang
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  • Zabaikalsk

Oral History of Twentieth Century Mongolia

  • Oral History of Twentieth Century Mongolia overview
  • Монголын 20-р Зууны Аман Түүх
  • Project overview
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Transforming Technologies and Buddhist Book Culture

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A Tibetan Woman Lama and her Reincarnations

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  • The Life of Chokyi Dronma (Chos kyi sgron ma) according to her biography
  • From sacred princess and divine emanation to cadre
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Tibetan and Mongolian Rare Books and Manuscripts

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Tibetan Materials

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Tibetan Book Evolution and Technology

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Printing Houses

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  • 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)
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The Padgling Traditions in Bhutan

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Incarnation lines

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  • On the Edge: Life along the Russia-China Border
  • Between the Buddha and the New Tsar
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  • 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

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Inner Mongolia

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Research on the Environment

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Michaelmas Term – Seminar Programme

4 October 2023

We are pleased to share the seminar programme for the Michaelmas term. Please click here or follow the link on the right

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