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Provides access to journal articles, books, images, and primary sources. Contents include the Artstor image collection, archival and current scholarly journal content, and historical documents.
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Rubin Art Museum
Discover works of art in our online database that spark your curiosity or inspire you. Featuring over 700 objects from Himalayan regions, our online collection presents a searchable database of selected artworks from the Rubin Museum’s permanent collection of approximately 3,400 objects spanning more than 1,500 years to the present day.
Tibet House
A part of the THUS mandate is to collect diverse examples of Tibetan sacred, fine, and folk arts, with the hope to ultimately repatriate them to a National Museum in a culturally free Tibet. To this end, the Repatriation Collection was started in 1992. This growing collection is comprised of 1,500 objects: tangkas, bronzes, ritual objects, and folk art. Generous collectors who are deeply concerned about the ultimate disposition of the cultural heritage of the Tibetan people have and continue to thoughtfully give representative examples of the vast and sophisticated repertoire of Tibetan arts.
Arts of the Greater Himalayas: Kashmir, Tibet, and Nepal - MET Musem
The arts of the Himalayan region, extending from Kashmir in the west, across the central Tibetan plateau to eastern Tibet and Nepal, embody a rich fabric of traditions drawn from the Indian subcontinent, Central Asia, West Asia, and China. The result is a rich hybridity unknown anywhere else in Asia. Kashmir, Tibet, and Nepal occupied a strategic position in the facilitation of trade and cultural exchange from earliest recorded times.
South Asian and Himalayan Collections - Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art
The arts of South Asia and the Himalayas are closely intertwined with the subcontinent’s many religious traditions. This region, which includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet, is the birthplace of three major religions: Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism. The Islamic kingdoms that were established in South Asia in the twelfth century brought new visual traditions to the subcontinent. With more than 1,200 objects, the museums’ South Asian and Himalayan collections illuminate these richly diverse sacred traditions as well as the secular arts of the Mughal and Rajput courts.
Himalayan Art Resources
The mission of the Himalayan Art Resources website (HAR) is to create a comprehensive education and research database and virtual museum of Himalayan art.
Asian Art Museum
Located in the heart of San Francisco, the museum is home to one of the world’s finest collections of Asian art, boasting more than 18,000 awe-inspiring artworks ranging from ancient jades and ceramics to contemporary video installations. Dynamic special exhibitions, cultural celebrations and public programs for all ages provide rich art experiences that unlock the past and spark questions about the future.