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Onon Prize

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  • 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
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Publications

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  • 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
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  • 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

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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
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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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    • The West Mongolia Initiative
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