Histories

Text-historical research

In Toronto, Frances Garrett, Khenpo Kunga Sherab, and Dakpa Gyatso have been studying Tibetan language guidebooks to hidden lands (sbas yul). An international workshop on “Hidden Lands in Himalayan Myth and History: Transformations of Beyul (sBas yul) through Time” was held in Toronto in December 2017, featuring thirteen paper presentations; this research is now being prepared as an edited volume.

In Sikkim, Anna Balikci-Denjongpa is working with monks from Pemayangtse monastery on a book that documents sacred sites in the Khangchendzonga National Park and the environs.