Tsadra Foundation supports the work of students, practitioners, translators, and researchers of Tibetan Buddhism through the development of digital resources. In taking advantage of contemporary tools in the digital humanities, Tsadra Foundation aims to be at the forefront of providing tools for the study and practice of Buddhism. Here you can find a number of resources for access to digital Tibetan texts and detailed catalogs of information for translators, researchers, and students. You can also visit an extensive list of online tools and resources.
Sponsored by Penn State’s Department of Asian Studies, the Global Asias Initiative encompasses several interrelated projects that bring into relation, but not necessarily into alignment, work in Asian Studies, Asian American Studies, and Asian Diaspora Studies. Under the direction of Tina Chen, the Initiative cultivates multi-disciplinary collaboration through the work of an award-winning journal, Verge: Studies in Global Asias; the biennial Global Asias conference; and the annual Global Asias Summer Institute. Deeply transnational and transhistorical in scope, Verge is committed to generating thematic and conceptual links among the disciplines and regional/area studies formations that address Asia in a variety of particularist (national, subnational, individual) and generalist (national, regional, global) modes. The Global Asias conferences bring scholars from around the country and the world to participate in lively intellectual exchange while the Summer Institutes are designed to provide mentorship and support for junior colleagues. Collectively, these projects study Asia and its diasporas, East to West, across and around the Pacific, from a variety of humanistic perspectives—anthropology, art history, literature, history, sociology, and political science—in order to develop comparative analyses that recognize Asia’s place(s) in the development of global culture and history.
Decoder CCP: Understanding CCP slogans, from a Tibetan perspective
Each entry in Decoding CCP begins with the term or phrase in English, Chinese and Tibetan. Each deploys, wherever possible, China’s official translation since China makes much effort to translate its slogans into English, Tibetan and many other languages and maintains lists of officially approved terminologies.
This is the core methodology that makes Decoding CCP unique. Those official versions are the party-state performing itself, declaiming as true the perspective of the performer. It is the position of “speaking from”, which linguistics theorists call epideixis. Implicit in this speaking position is not only the right to be heard, but also accepted and believed, as tools in China’s efforts to expand discourse power.
Only after listing China’s epideictic stance in three languages does each Decoding CCP entry move on from “speaking from” to “speaking to”– from epideixis to apodeixis. To speak to puts us in the position of hearers, reactive to CCP’s speaking position. How hearers hear the performative declamations of the party-state’s legislative voice is key. Neither Tibetans nor the wider world dismisses China’s propaganda as nonsense. It requires careful consideration, not kneejerk opposition. So Decoding CCP takes care not to propose counter-propaganda to China’s official propaganda.
The transition from epideixis to apodeixis takes the user on a journey to see through official eyes and then through the eyes of those most targeted by CCP formulations, especially the recalcitrant ethnicities who stubbornly remain themselves and refuse to assimilate.
This is a journey worth taking. It reveals multiple viewpoints and leaves users to make up their own minds as to what conclusions to draw. We can cross rivers of uncertainty and arrive with greater insight by looking both ways.
This is the Tibetan tradition of worldmaking and remaking. It is how Tibetans, thrown into exile, found their feet in very different worlds. It is how the 97 per cent of global Tibetans who remain in Tibet roll with China’s new world order yet keep their feet.
China Information presents timely and in-depth analyses of major developments in contemporary China and overseas Chinese communities in the areas of politics, economics, law, ecology, culture, and society, including literature and the arts. It is refereed academic journal with an international readership indexed in SSCI and Scopus.This Journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics.
Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies | EJCJS
The electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies (ejcjs) is a journal in the Social Sciences and Humanities that is dedicated to publishing academic research and scholarly writing on all issues related to contemporary Japanese society, economy, politics, literature, theatre, cinema, and culture. The journal adopts a multi-disciplinary stance in the hope that it will contribute to a deeper and broader understanding of Japan and the Japanese people as an integral part of global 21st century life and that it will, consequently, help to improve our understanding of the totality of human experience. As such, therefore, we encourage submissions in all areas of sociology, economics, political science, and cultural studies that have contemporary Japan as their principal area of focus but that also relate Japan to broader developments elsewhere in the world. Contributions are posted as and when we receive, review, and edit them. ejcjs is committed to working towards sustainable development worldwide. Consequently, our editorial policy is to offer access to all pages in this journal free of charge and only over the internet. ejcjs operates an unusual publishing model in that, in addition to there being no charge for access to our material, we do not charge administrative fees to our contributors. Our journal is financed purely on the basis of the goodwill provided by our readers, our contributors, our editorial board, and any other benefits that we can gain by publishing over the internet.
The « Elites, Networks and Power in modern urban China » project explores the transformative process of elites in China between 1830 and 1949. It focuses on three main urban areas which were the engines of change in modern China: Beijing/Tianjin, Guangzhou/Hong Kong, and greater Shanghai.
The project intends to challenge the China-centered and group-based approach dominant in the historical literature of the past two decades. The project envisions elites in urban China as actors whose status, position, and practices were shaped by the power configurations that developed over time and whose actions through institutions and informal/formal networks in turn were a determining factor in redrawing social and political boundaries. The project places the emphasis on the networks through which information, capital, and individuals circulated. It investigates the transnationalization of elites as a process that overstepped the limits of institutions and nation states.
The key methodological issue that the project addresses is breaking through existing limits of access to historical information that is embedded in complex sources and its transformation into refined, re-usable and sustainable data for contemporary and future study of modern China. It proposes a step-change in the study of modern China reliant upon scalable data-rich history to deliver precise historical information at an unprecedented scale from heretofore untapped sources – as well as reshaping the analysis of existing sources – to create a new dimension in the study of the transformation of elites in modern China.
Elites, Networks, and Power in Modern Urban China | Zenodo
The ERC-funded ENEP-CHINA project proposes a step-change in the study of modern China reliant upon scalable data-rich history. It will deliver precise historical information at an unprecedented scale from heretofore untapped sources – as well as reshaping the analysis of existing sources – to create a new dimension in the study of the transformation of elites in modern China. It will deploy an array of cutting-edge digital methods— including data mining, sampling, and analysis within an integrated virtual research environment. To establish the validity of this approach, the project focuses on the three urban areas (Shanghai, Beijing/Tianjin, Canton/Hong Kong) that had the most profound impact on the course of modern Chinese history. The project will challenge the China-centered and group-based approach dominant in the historical literature of the past two decades. The project envisions elites in urban China as actors whose status, position, and practices were shaped by the power configurations that developed over time and whose actions through institutions and informal/formal networks in turn were a determining factor in redrawing social and political boundaries. The project will place the emphasis on the networks through which information, capital, and individuals circulated. It will investigate the transnationalization of elites as a process that overstepped the limits of institutions and nation states. The key issue that the project will address is breaking through existing limits of access to historical information that is embedded in complex sources and its transformation into refined, re-usable and sustainable data for contemporary and future study of modern China.
The China Historical Geographic Information System, CHGIS, is a free database of placenames and historical administrative units for the Chinese Dynasties.
CHGIS provides a base GIS platform for researchers to use in spatial analysis or to visualize the historical divisions of China as digital maps.
CyberSangha is a way to connect with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, the ancient Tibetan teachings, and fellow students around the world through regular live broadcasts that can be easily viewed on Rinpoche’s Facebook page. All broadcasts are free and open to all. You don’t need a Facebook account to view them.
The name CyberSangha reflects Rinpoche’s deep, personal commitment to offer free access to his teachings for anyone in the world who might benefit from them. Buddhism speaks of Three Jewels: the Buddha; the Dharma, or Buddhist teachings; and the Sangha — the community of meditation practitioners who follow the teachings and put them into practice. In particular, CyberSangha refers to the international online community of individuals who are following Rinpoche’s Facebook Live broadcasts and are seeking nourishment from the mutual support of others. Look on Twitter and Instagram for the presence of CyberSangha there, as well.
Rinpoche’s teachings present a doorway to connecting with your best self, a sense of openness, awareness, and warmth that allows you to live to your highest potential. His broadcasts are meant to be accessible to anyone, including those who have never tried meditation, practitioners with years of meditation experience, and those with any or no religious or spiritual affiliation.
Offered regularly since 2009, Rinpoche’s live broadcasts include not only teachings and guided meditations, but also interfaith dialogues, conversations between scientific and spiritual leaders, and Tibetan poetry readings, as well as glimpses of Rinpoche’s life and travels. A worldwide team of volunteers provides simultaneous translation of the Facebook Live broadcasts into multiple languages, and a Facebook discussion group permits exchanges between members of CyberSangha. Recordings of each broadcast are accessible in multiple languages via the CyberSangha archives as well as language-specific YouTube channels.
Learn more about our international team of volunteers.
CyberSangha® provides a variety of educational services including teaching self-development through service, learning, and civic engagement; providing training and study of spiritual growth; offering leadership and development programs; and providing online classes, seminars, workshops, and training for individuals related to meditation, wellness and resilience.
Sea of Japan - Oriental Sea - no established concept or definiation.
Oriental Sea had been use as a are surronding Japan incruding both Sea of Japan side and Pacific ocean side when Europeans arrival to Japan. Although on some maps they wrote in the sea of Japan place, it is not established place of name.
There are three type of description of Ocean
Asia for Educators (AFE) is designed to serve faculty and students in world history, culture, geography, art, and literature at the undergraduate and pre-college levels.
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