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A description of the empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, together with the kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet. Containing the geography and history (natural as well as civil) of those countries ... / from the French of P.J.B. DuHalde, Jesuit, with notes geographical, historical and critical and other improvements, particularly in the maps by the translator.

A naked couple making love representing a safe-sex advertisement by the Department of Health, CTA (Central Tibetan Administration), Dharamsala. Colour lithograph by Passang Thupten, ca. 1997.

Tibet: Kamba Bombo warns Sven Hedin not to proceed further south towards Lhasa. Drawing by F.C. Dickinson, 1902, after Sven Hedin.

Tibet: a dead body being broken up with a hammer and knife for throwing to the birds. Photograph, 19--.

Tibet: a dead body being eaten by dogs. Photograph, 19--.

Succouring the enemy : British troops attending to wounded Tibetans after the battle of Guru / drawn by  F. de Haenen from a photograph by a British Officer.

Principles of Lamaist pharmacognosy : being the texts of the Dri med shel gong, Dri med shel phreng, and the Lag len gces bsdus of Dil-dmar dge-bshes Bstan-'dzin-phun-tshogs / [Bstan- dzin-phun-tshogs].

Three Tibetan instructions on acupuncture and moxibustion : a collection of manuscripts of the works of Dil-dmar Dge-bśes Bstan-'dzin-phun-tshogs.

Der tibetische Medizin-Baum : Texte und Illustrationen / Elisabeth Finckh.

Beiträge zur Geschichte der medizinischen Literatur Tibets / Manfred Taube.

Ñams yig brgya rtsa las rluṅ nad bcos paʼi yig chuṅ nas chaṅ nad bcos paʼi yig chuṅ gi bar bśugs so / Goṅ-sman Dkon-mchog-ʼphan-dar.

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Tibet

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Principles of Lamaist pharmacognosy : being the texts of the Dri med shel gong, Dri med shel phreng, and the Lag len gces bsdus of Dil-dmar dge-bshes Bstan-'dzin-phun-tshogs / [Bstan- dzin-phun-tshogs].

Three Tibetan instructions on acupuncture and moxibustion : a collection of manuscripts of the works of Dil-dmar Dge-bśes Bstan-'dzin-phun-tshogs.

Der tibetische Medizin-Baum : Texte und Illustrationen / Elisabeth Finckh.

Beiträge zur Geschichte der medizinischen Literatur Tibets / Manfred Taube.

Ñams yig brgya rtsa las rluṅ nad bcos paʼi yig chuṅ nas chaṅ nad bcos paʼi yig chuṅ gi bar bśugs so / Goṅ-sman Dkon-mchog-ʼphan-dar.

Tibet

Images from the collections

Images referencing Tibet

Works from the collections

Principles of Lamaist pharmacognosy : being the texts of the Dri med shel gong, Dri med shel phreng, and the Lag len gces bsdus of Dil-dmar dge-bshes Bstan-'dzin-phun-tshogs / [Bstan- dzin-phun-tshogs].

Three Tibetan instructions on acupuncture and moxibustion : a collection of manuscripts of the works of Dil-dmar Dge-bśes Bstan-'dzin-phun-tshogs.

Der tibetische Medizin-Baum : Texte und Illustrationen / Elisabeth Finckh.

Beiträge zur Geschichte der medizinischen Literatur Tibets / Manfred Taube.

Ñams yig brgya rtsa las rluṅ nad bcos paʼi yig chuṅ nas chaṅ nad bcos paʼi yig chuṅ gi bar bśugs so / Goṅ-sman Dkon-mchog-ʼphan-dar.

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