(25 February 2019) The Chinese government will invest 300 million yuan (44.9 million U.S. dollars) in the next 10 years in its greatest efforts of protection and utilization of ancient documents in the Potala Palace, a World Heritage site in Lhasa, southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region. At present, a total of nearly 40,000 books of precious ancient…
Duke University has received a grant from the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme to digitize and preserve a trove of ancient religious manuscripts related to Bon, the pre-Buddhist religion of Tibet. The Menri Monstery in India’s Himachal Pradesh state owns the largest collection of Bon manuscripts in the world. Most were rescued from monasteries in…
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