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Trading Mongolia's Sovereign Meat
Resource frontiers: managing water on a trans-border Asian river
Resource frontiers: managing water on a trans-border Asian river overview
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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
Himalayan Connections
Himalayan Connections overview
Himalayan connections
The West Mongolia Initiative
Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project
Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project overview
Pathways to understanding the changing climate
Pathways to understanding the changing climate overview
Cambridge Interdisciplinary Research on the Environment
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Opening Workshop 2014
Sensing Landscape Exhibition 2016
Policy Workshop 2016
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PGCE 2017
Where Rising Powers Meet
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Baunt
Blagoveshchensk and Heihe
Heihe
Hulun Buir
Hulun Lake
Hunchun
Khabarovsk and Vladivostok
Kyakhta
Manzhouli
Mardai
Naikhin and Tongjiang
Suifenhe
Tunka
Vladivostok
Zabaikalsk
Media: Presentation by Professor Caroline Humphrey
Media: Presentation by Sayana Namsaraeva
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Climate Histories
Climate Histories overview
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Oral History of Twentieth Century Mongolia
Oral History of Twentieth Century Mongolia overview
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Монголын 20-р Зууны Аман Түүх
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Transforming Technologies and Buddhist Book Culture
Transforming Technologies and Buddhist Book Culture overview
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Exhibition
A Tibetan Woman Lama and her Reincarnations
A Tibetan Woman Lama and her Reincarnations overview
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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
Chokyi Dronma's Places
Mural Paintings & Illuminations
Tibetan and Mongolian Rare Books and Manuscripts
Tibetan and Mongolian Rare Books and Manuscripts overview
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Tibetan Materials
Tibetan Materials overview
Tibet Materials - Detail
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Catalogue of Tibetan Manuscripts and Blockprints
Tibetan Book Evolution and Technology
Tibetan Book Evolution and Technology overview
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
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The Padgling Traditions in Bhutan
The Padgling Traditions in Bhutan overview
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Incarnation lines
Incarnation lines overview
Gangteng Tulku Line
The Peling Sungtrul Line
The Peling Thugse Line
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Research on the Environment
Research on the Environment overview
Research in the Community
Climate Histories Seminar Series
Climate Histories Seminar Series overview
The Road to Paris 2015
Seminar Series 2015-2016
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Healthy Waterways
Orkney: Beside the Ocean of Time
Blowing in the Wind
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Inner Asia
Inner Asia overview
Inner Asia: Open Access
Inner Asia Book Series
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Members' publications overview
On the Edge: Life along the Russia-China Border
Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia
Drones, Tones and Timbres
A Chinese Rebel beyond the Great Wall. The Cultural Revolution and Ethnic Pogrom in Inner Mongolia
China's Camel Country. Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier
Evil Spirits and Rocket Debris
Dr Burkhard Quessel
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