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 Kailash (journal) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kailash is a scholarly journal, first published in 1973.
It focuses on the history and anthropology of the Himalayan region.
Printed on traditional rice paper in Kathmandu, Nepal, it is difficult to acquire and only a handful of university libraries have assembled a complete set.
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 Wikipedia: Mantra
Studies in sound symbolism suggest that vocal sounds have meaning whether we are aware of it or not.
So in Tibet for instance, where this mantra is on the lips of many Tibetans all their waking hours, the mantra is pronounced Om mani peme hum.
Kailash - Journal of Himalayan Studies, Volume 1, Number 2, 1973.
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 Kailash : Five Nyingmapa Lamas in Sikkim
Nangdeun Rigpa is the "root of the tree" and the most important study in the Sheda: spiritual knowledge.
The pace of study depends on the ability of the pupil and the judgment of the tutor.
Study hours are 6 AM to 9:30 AM and again from 3 PM to 5 PM.
iris.lib.virginia.edu /tibet/texts/reprints/kailash/1_1_2.html   (2926 words)

  
 Kailash : Recently Discovered Inscriptions of Licchavi Nepal
In some instances the chronological position, if not the exact year, of a dateless inscription can be determined from the presence in the text of the name of a chronologically fixed ruler.
Thus, it is primarily by means of a comparative study of these key signs that I have fixed chronologically the undated inscriptions among those published here.
The importance of this epigraphic tool, not only for unravelling the early political history of Nepal, but also the history of her art, is, of course obvious.
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The result of this study was not satisfactory as expected, although the study was successful in some respect.
Generally, a medical student studies the second chapter of the Last Tantra and uses it as a source for studying and practising urine-analysis and very often complements his study with the commentary to that work.
The aim of the study was to determine whether a correlation between disturbances in lipid metabolism and oscillating potentials exists.
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 Kailash : Short Reviews
Rather the study of Nepali art is important to the art-historian preceisely because it demonstrates the remarkable capacity of the artists for assimilation.
It is certainly the first study of its kind in.English, and as such marks an important date in Himalayan Studies.
This journal is one of the welcome happenings in the area of North-East Indian studies in 1971.
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 Academic Resources
"Studies of Nazca," in: Archaeoastronomy 17:S62-S67, 1992, Cambridge.
Since the platform was undisturbed, this allowed a study of the relationships of the artifacts to each other and thus the development of a model with which to compare data from other high altitude ritual sites.
Comparative data relating to geoglyphs in other areas are also used in the development of a theory to explain the lines and figures as part of religious practices designed primarily to insure the fertility of crops.
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 Books on Muktinath - Chumig Gyatsa
Based on Messerschmidt's study of the Hindu aspects of Muktinath as a pilgrimage destination, which was published in 1981.
The study is presented in two parts: the cultural geography of pilgrimage and the social process.
This issue of Kailash describes the Tibetan-Buddhist pilgrimage sites along the Gandaki River from the former kingdom Thag up till Lo Monthang in the former kingdom Mustang.
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 Mark Turin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The journal was conceived to be a forum for scholars of a younger generation from both the East and the West to have their material published and critically discussed, and to this day Kailash continues to publish the findings of original research projects.
The European Bulletin of Himalayan Research (EBHR) was established in 1991 with the aim of providing an open forum for scholars in the humanities, natural and applied sciences specialising in Himalayan studies.
This biannual journal has a quirky editorial arrangement: it is edited in strict rotation by teams from the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
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 Licchavi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A table of the evolution of certain Gupta characters used in Lichavi inscriptions originally published in Kailash - Journal of Himalayan Studies.
The earliest known record of the kingdom is an inscription of Manadeva 1, which dates from 464.
This page was last modified 05:23, 18 November 2005.
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 Digital Himalaya: News
Copies of the journal were sent to the University of Virginia at Charlottesville where Benjamin Deitle of the Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library took the lead in scanning and segmenting the articles into downloadable PDF files.
Known for their expertise in Tibetan Studies, the Virginia team have developed advanced tools for viewing Tibetan language materials online, and are also developing video cataloguing software that will allow users to switch between multiple language transcripts and add cataloguing information to film clips.
Turin gave a presentation to scholars, students and representatives from The Aris Trust Centre for Tibetan and Himalayan Studies on the strategies Digital Himalaya is pursuing to digitise historic 16mm film footage.
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-------------------------------------------------------------- 02 May 2003 Kailash - Journal of Himalayan Studies Digital Himalaya Project, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Self-description "As part of the Digital Himalaya Project, [www.digitalhimalaya.com] we are beginning to digitise out-of-print volumes of Kailash - Journal of Himalayan Studies.
This excellent publication, printed on traditional rice paper in Kathmandu, Nepal, by Ratna Pustak Bhandar, is difficult to acquire and only a handful of university libraries have assembled a complete set.
With the support of the publishers and editors of the journal, we at Digital Himalaya have digitised Volume 1, Number 1, 1973 of Kailash.
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 EJISDC - Volume 13 - May 2003
http://www.ejisdc.org Editorial Volume 13 is a special issue of the journal that focuses on the "emergence of software exporting industries in dozens of developing and emerging economies".
Nagy Hanna is a World Bank economist who has been studying the intersection of technology and development for more than a decade.
Christopher Coward shares results from his study of how decision makers in small- and medium-sized American companies decide to venture offshore for software.
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 Buddhism in South Asia. Religion in South Asia. South Asia Guide. Memorial Library. UW-Madison.
Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies.
Studies in the Buddhistic Culture of India, During the 7th and 8th Centuries A.D. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1967.
A Study of Pemalinga,1450-1521, and the Sixth Dalai Lama,1683-1706.
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 SASNET: Magazines on South Asia
Peace and Democracy in South Asia (PDSA), independent, international, multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal of peace and democracy in the region published by the Politics of Development Group at Stockholm University.
Journal of Peace and Democracy in South Asia (JPDSA), an independent international multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal of peace and democracy in the region.
Semi-annual on-line journal, freely accessible through the Project South Asia Website, Missouri Southern State College, U.S. World Development, an Elsevier multi-disciplinary monthly journal of development studies, edited by the Dept. of Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
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Ian Stevenson is a researcher at The Division of Personality Studies (DOPS) at the University of Virginia.
He is best known for collecting and meticulously researching cases of children who seem to recall past lives (spontaneously, that is, without the need for hypnosis), thereby providing some of the best available evidence suggestive of reincarnation.
The only way for any one who is interested in finding out what this is all about is to watch how this separation is occurring, how you are separating yourself from the things that are happening around you and inside you.
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Wahi, S.P., A.K. Wahi and D.K. Jaiswal (1973) - Chemical study of the leaf of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis Linn., JRIM 8, 4, 94-96.
Wang, Ying and Hai-Peng Lei (1987) - Hepatotoxicity of gossypol in rats, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 20, 1, 53-64.
Weiss, Mitchell G. (1977) - Critical study of "unm=ada" in the early Sanskrit medical literature: An analysis of Ayurvedic psychiatry with reference to present-day diagnostic concepts, XLI and 353 p.
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 South Asia Journals Indexed in the BAS
This is a partial listing of journals with South Asia-related articles that have been indexed in the Bibliography of Asian Studies, an online publication of the Association for Asian Studies.
The project is also currently part of the successor to that pilot project, the Digital South Asia Library, hosted by the Center for Research Libraries, and funded under the Dept. of Education's Title VI international education program entitled Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access.
The indexing of these journals is carried out by the South Asia Indexer at Columbia University Libraries, under the supervision of the South Asia Librarian, Dr. David Magier.
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 Nepal and the Gurungs
RESOURCES AND POPULATION: A STUDY OF THE GURUNGS OF NEPAL (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1976).
Bernard Pignede, THE GURUNGS: A HIMALAYAN POPULATION OF NEPAL (Kathmandu), xliv + 523pp ; translated, edited and annotated, with Sarah Harrison.1993
'Himalayan Diary; where have all the witches gone?' [draft of an article c.1997]
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 CIIS Library: Asian Art Museum Library
To learn more about their image, monograph, and periodical collections or to make an appointment to visit the AAM Library, call the CIIS Library's Reference Desk at (415) 575-6186 or contact the Reference Desk online.
Journal of the Indian Society of Oriental Art.
Studies in Central and East Asian Religions (Journal of the Seminar for Buddhist Studies, Copenhagen)
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 Selection of Academic Journals on Asian Studies
Aims of the journal are to develop a humane and knowledgeable understanding of Asian societies and their efforts to maintain cultural integrity and to confront problems, and also, to create alternatives to the prevailing trends in scholarship on Asia
Subject/description: The Journal of Southeast Asian Studies is one of the principal outlets for scholarly articles on Southeast Asia (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam).
The journal discusses the period from the beginning of the Chinese civilization to the early twentieth century.
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 Digital Himalaya: Kailash - Journal of Himalayan Studies
As part of the Digital Himalaya Project, we are beginning to digitise out-of-print volumes of Kailash - Journal of Himalayan Studies.
With the support of the publishers and editors of the journal, we at Digital Himalaya have digitised Volumes 1 - 18, with the exception of a few issues of volumes 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, and 18, of Kailash.
The Lineage of the Nobel House of Ga-Zi in East Tibet
www.digitalhimalaya.com /collections/journals/kailash/nonjavascript.php   (1737 words)

  
 Nepal News: Links to newspapers and journals
Many of the back issues of these journals and papers can be downloaded as PDF files.
Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS): an academical journal (the website provides the list of contents as well as the summaries of the articles, sometimes also the editorials)
Himalayan Research Bulletin: journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
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 Asian Studies WWW Monitor
The journal, a pioneering and the only publication of this kind in the world, provides daily abstracts and reviews of new/updated online resources of significance to research, teaching and communications dealing with Asian Studies.
Self-description: "The Society for Iranian Studies was founded in 1967 as a professional society to support and promote the field of Iranian Studies at the international level.
The journal's editor is Kam Louie of the China and Korea Centre [www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies/us.html] at Australian National University, and the Assistant Editor is Ms Anne Platt of the Asian Studies Centre at University of Queensland [www.arts.uq.edu.au/slccs/asc.html].
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 manrta information,mantra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
What they symbolise, and how they function depends on the context, and the mind of the personrepeating them.
Studies in sound symbolism suggest that vocal soundshave meaning whether we are aware of it or not.
And indeed that there can be multiple layers of symbolism associated with eachsound.
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 Slusser and Giambrone: Kuber Singh Shakya - A Master Craftsman of Nepal
To my knowledge the only studies of Nepalese repoussé are Ian Alsop, "Repoussé in Nepal," Orientations (July 1986), 14-27 and M. Slusser et al., "Metamorphosis: Sheet Metal to Sacred Image in Nepal," Artibus Asiae 58: nos.
Erberto LoBue, "Himalayan Sacred Art in the 20th Century," 118 gives the dates as 1891-1956.
One of the pandits who translated a Buddhist chronicle for Daniel Wright apparently also belonged to this lineage (Daniel Wright, History of Nepal [1877 reprint: Calcutta, Ranjan Gupta, 1966], 138 and n.
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 A-yu Kha'dro
She brought the news that in the third month of the previous year, 1899, Trulzhi Rinpoche, at the age of eighty-three, had passed away taking the body of light and leaving no corpse.
He studied widely, far beyond sectarian limits, and was known as a great scholar and meditator.
The name of the town may be a corruption of the Naga Shesa's epithet Phanathinggu, "the Nine Hooded Cobra," and the great yogin Pham-thingpa who studied nine years with Nampa took his name from this place where he was born.
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 Electronic Journal Locator
If you have both the journal name and ISSN, use the ISSN.
Also note that "and" and "and" are not the same; if one doesn't find the journal, try the other.
Abbreviated journal titles may not find the correct journal.
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 HIMAL SOUTH ASIAN | July 2003 | Commentary | Briefs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
One moment that made particularly big waves was Paras bending to a low handshake in a manner that has never before been captured by Nepali photojournalists.
All of this would be a most satisfying reinstatement of cordiality between the two Himalayan neighbours, except for one niggling detail that surfaced every time one saw the three Ashis of Bhutan in front page spreads.
And that was the presence of the 106,223 refugees from Bhutan, whose future suddenly took a sudden turn for the worse a month ago when the Nepali government agreed to a Bhutanese proposal that would essentially render a majority of them stateless (See Himal, June 2003).
www.himalmag.com /2003/july/briefs.htm   (3605 words)

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