January 13, 2023

Central Tibetan Administration: CTA to Soon Begin Records Digitisation Project

Central Tibetan Administration: CTA to Soon Begin Records Digitisation Project. “The Department of Religion and Culture, CTA, held a preliminary meeting on Digital Library Initiative today presided over by Sikyong Penpa Tsering, the incumbent Kalon of the department. Sikyong underlined the necessity of digitally archiving the prolonged preservation of important and invaluable paper-based documents of bygone ages and tabled the proposition of collaborating with major libraries in India, Nepal and Bhutan for the conservation of documents.”

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April 3, 2022

Radio Free Asia: China blocks use of Tibetan language on learning apps, streaming services

Radio Free Asia: China blocks use of Tibetan language on learning apps, streaming services. “Chinese government restrictions on use of the Tibetan language have now spread to video services and other online platforms, as Beijing continues to push the assimilation of China’s ethnic minorities into the dominant Han Chinese culture, according to Tibetan sources.”

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December 11, 2021

1,809 known Tibetan political prisoners in Chinese prisons: TCHRD (Phayul)

Phayul: 1,809 known Tibetan political prisoners in Chinese prisons: TCHRD. “The Dharamshala-based Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) launched a new online database with information on 5,518 Tibetan political prisoners compiled since 1990. The initiative is in collaboration with Geneva-based HURIDOCS’ (Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems) application Uwazi. Researcher Tenzin Dawa, said 3,067 prisoners have been released whereas 1,809 people are still currently detained in Chinese prisons.”

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November 6, 2021

Global Times: Digital archiving used to preserve Tibetan manuscripts

Global Times: Digital archiving used to preserve Tibetan manuscripts . “Preservation of ancient palm-leaf manuscripts collected in Lhasa’s Potala Palace in Southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region has entered the digital archiving phase, the cultural relics research office of the Potala Palace announced on Sunday. With a total of 29,380 leaves, the Potala Palace has the largest collection of palm-leaf manuscripts in China. A plan to take inventory of and protect the manuscripts was kicked off in May 2020, China News reported on Sunday.”

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October 5, 2021

Stanford Libraries Blog: East Asia Library launches Tibet Oral History Project online exhibit

Stanford Libraries Blog: East Asia Library launches Tibet Oral History Project online exhibit. “The East Asia Library has launched an online exhibit for the Tibet Oral History Project, a collection of over three hundred video interviews with Tibetan refugees. The Tibet Oral History Project was created by Dr. Marcella Adamski in 2003 with the goal of documenting the accounts of elder Tibetans living in exile who had experienced life in Tibet before, during, and after the imposition of Communist rule by the People’s Republic of China in 1951.”

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December 15, 2020

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage: Center Launches Google Arts and Culture Collections Page and First Story

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage: Center Launches Google Arts and Culture Collections Page and First Story. “The Center is pleased to join the platform to increase the public’s access to and awareness of some of the rich materials in our collection. The Center’s page opens with Lag Zo: Making on the Tibetan Plateau, which features fieldwork with nomadic ethnic Tibetan communities in China. In January, the Center will add a second feature, Discover Storied Objects from the Smithsonian Folklife Festival (1967–2017), which shares the stories of some of the sculptures, pottery, costumes, and other crafts created at Center’s signature annual event.The site also includes a growing collection of images and videos from between 1965 to 2019.”

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August 4, 2020

Xinhua: Upgraded Tibetan-language search engine, input method software launched

Xinhua: Upgraded Tibetan-language search engine, input method software launched. “An upgraded search engine app and input method software designed for Tibetan-speaking users have been officially launched, according to local authorities in northwest China’s Qinghai Province. The search engine yongzin.com was launched in August 2016, which receives an average of 10 million daily visits, said the government of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai.”

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September 25, 2019

Ars Technica: Inside the campaign that tried to compromise Tibetans’ iOS and Android phones

Ars Technica: Inside the campaign that tried to compromise Tibetans’ iOS and Android phones. “Attackers from a group dubbed Poison Carp used one-click exploits and convincing social engineering to target iOS and Android phones belonging to Tibetan groups in a six-month campaign, researchers said. The attacks used mobile platforms to achieve a major escalation of the decade-long espionage hacks threatening the embattled religious community, researchers said.”

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January 16, 2018

Boing Boing: Marriott fires employee for “willfully liking” a tweet in support of Tibetan independence

Boing Boing: Marriott fires employee for “willfully liking” a tweet in support of Tibetan independence. “Marriott has fired one of its social media managers because the employee ‘wrongfully liked’ a tweet from Friends of Tibet, a group that supports Tibetan independence from China. The sacking started when Marriott contracted with an outside company to perform a customer satisfaction survey, on which a multiple choice question about which countries guests had used the chain’s hotels in listed “Tibet, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan” as separate countries. Describing these territories as independent countries is an offense under Chinese law.”

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October 14, 2017

The Adventure Blog: The Himalayan Database Will Soon be Available for Free

The Adventure Blog: The Himalayan Database Will Soon be Available for Free. “When it comes to climbing the big mountains in Nepal – and lesser extent Tibet – The Himalayan Database is the definitive record for everything has been accomplished there over the past 50 years. The information contained in the database has been meticulously compiled by Ms. Elizabeth Hawley for five decades, and soon all of those records will be available to the general public online for free.”

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October 13, 2017

China Focus: Digital archiving preserves Tibetan Buddhist artwork (Xinhua)

Xinhua: China Focus: Digital archiving preserves Tibetan Buddhist artwork. “In the morning, researchers and monks gather in front of a hall in Sakya Monastery, the earliest monastery of the Sakya Sect of the Tibetan Buddhism. They go through the security checks and enter the hall, which is designated as a work area for the second round of a digital archive project which was launched in September…. The project aims to archive 26 types of artifacts in the Sakya Monastery, Tibet Autonomous Region.”

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August 22, 2017

Xinhuanet: China launches Tibetan-language literature database

Xinhuanet: China launches Tibetan-language literature database . “China Monday launched a Tibetan-language literature database to facilitate the protection and development of Tibetan culture and provide resources for future study. Run by China Tibetology Research Center, the database was established under the approval of the United Front Work Department of Communist Party of China Central Committee.”

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September 11, 2016

BBC News: How good is Tibet’s Beijing-backed search engine?

From the BBC, an article from late June but I’m spending the weekend catching up on my e-mail (HA!) How good is Tibet’s Beijing-backed search engine? “This week saw the launch of the very first search engine in the Tibetan language. Yongzim, backed by the Chinese authorities, claims to be better at handling complex searches involving several words in the language than any alternative. But a spokesman for the government in exile, the Central Tibetan Administration, told the BBC it could also be used as a ‘platform to promote propaganda to legitimise the illegal occupation of Tibet’.”

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August 8, 2016

In Trial Operation: New Tibetan-Language Search Engine

In trials: a new Tibetan-language search engine. “Cloud Tibet, the world’s first search engine dedicated specially to Tibetan-speaking people, has been launched for trial operation, the China News Service reported on Tuesday. Developed by a Tibetan language research center in Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province, Cloud Tibet will help Tibetan-speaking people access a variety of information in text, graphic and video formats, said Tselo, head of the development team.”

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