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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
Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project
Climate Histories

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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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

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
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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

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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The Interview Process
The Pilot Project
The Project Team

Transforming Technologies and Buddhist Book Culture

Transforming Technologies and Buddhist Book Culture overview
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Exhibition

About

About overview
Acknowledgments
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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
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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

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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
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Climate Histories Seminar Series

Climate Histories Seminar Series overview
The Road to Paris 2015
Seminar Series 2015-2016
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PhD: Faith, Knowledge and Ignorance in Contemporary Inner Mongolian Buddhism (2007)

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