Tibet display to mark visit

The Library is mounting a display offering different perspectives on Tibet, to mark the visit of His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama to Monash University.

A highlight is a selection of serials and pamphlets on Tibet’s democracy movement and human rights situation from an important recent donation to the Library by the Australia-Tibet Council.

The display also includes four rare Tibetan Buddhist manuscripts made of daphne cloth, a student’s writing primer and some writing materials belonging to David Templeman, a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism in the Monash Asia Institute.

Other items in the display include some nineteenth and twentieth century accounts of Tibet by European writers, Tibetan almanacs and traditional medicine books, manuscript initiation cards, some Chinese publications on Tibet, and Tibetan prayer flags.

Most items in the display come from the Library’s Asian Studies Research Collection or the Rare Books Collection. The display is housed in the Music & Multimedia and Asian Studies Research Collection display cases (ground floor and lower ground floor of the ISB wing, Matheson Library) and will be on until July. It can be viewed at any time during library opening hours

17 May 2007

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The Buddha, as depicted in a 15th-16th centry manuscript