{"format":"tibet-archive-export","version":1,"preservation":"Metadata only. No original media files are preserved in this export.","sha256":"d903dd0a0f68710db48074b11800337389debf04bec96fa03dd66aaa16485540","catalogue":{"schemaVersion":1,"updatedAt":"2026-10-11","regions":[{"id":"u-tsang","name":"Ü-Tsang","note":"Cultural region used for browsing; not an authoritative boundary."},{"id":"kham","name":"Kham","note":"Cultural region used for browsing; not an authoritative boundary."},{"id":"amdo","name":"Amdo","note":"Cultural region used for browsing; not an authoritative boundary."},{"id":"ngari","name":"Ngari","note":"Cultural region used for browsing; not an authoritative boundary."}],"places":[{"id":"lhasa","slug":"lhasa","name":"Lhasa","regionId":"u-tsang","status":"published","summary":"A city remembered through trade, pilgrimage, and everyday life. Follow five personal accounts into the places and images around them.","sourceIds":["oxford-lhasa-map","oxford-lhasa-dress","oxford-nyingma-monk","oxford-postmaster","oxford-places","loc-samden-tshe-tashi","loc-collection","cnrs-place-names","osm-lhasa"],"tibetanName":{"text":"ལྷ་ས་གྲོང་ཁྱེར","sourceId":"cnrs-place-names","review":"source-provided"},"location":{"longitude":91.1,"latitude":29.65,"precision":"approximate","sourceId":"osm-lhasa","note":"Approximate city location from OpenStreetMap Wiki. Not an interview location, birthplace, historic building, or surveyed boundary."}},{"id":"jokhang","slug":"jokhang","name":"Jokhang","regionId":"u-tsang","status":"published","summary":"Karma Lamthon and Penpa remember pilgrimage and crowds around the Jokhang. Their recollections describe different visits, not a single shared event.","sourceIds":["wikidata-jokhang"],"tibetanName":{"text":"ཇོ་ཁང་།","sourceId":"wikidata-jokhang","review":"source-provided"},"location":{"longitude":91.13222,"latitude":29.65306,"precision":"approximate","sourceId":"wikidata-jokhang","note":"Contemporary approximate place reference from Wikidata. Not the location of a particular recollection or photograph."}},{"id":"gyantse","slug":"gyantse","name":"Gyantse","regionId":"u-tsang","status":"published","summary":"Gyantse appears in Pasang Dolkar’s account as a place visitors came from. This marker is an approximate town reference, not her home or an interview location.","sourceIds":["wikidata-gyantse"],"tibetanName":{"text":"རྒྱལ་རྩེ་གྲོང་རྡལ།","sourceId":"wikidata-gyantse","review":"source-provided"},"location":{"longitude":89.59956,"latitude":28.92026,"precision":"approximate","sourceId":"wikidata-gyantse","note":"Approximate town location from Wikidata Q1999606. Not an interview location or the home of a particular narrator."}},{"id":"labrang","slug":"labrang","name":"Labrang Monastery","regionId":"amdo","status":"published","summary":"A starting point for exploring Amdo through the monastery and its surrounding community. Oral histories have not yet been matched to this place.","sourceIds":["wikidata-labrang"],"tibetanName":{"text":"བླ་བྲང་དགོན།","sourceId":"wikidata-labrang","review":"source-provided"},"location":{"longitude":102.50492,"latitude":35.19412,"precision":"approximate","sourceId":"wikidata-labrang","note":"Contemporary approximate place reference from Wikidata. Not the location of a particular recollection or photograph."}}],"sources":[{"id":"oxford-lhasa-map","slug":"oxford-lhasa-map","title":"Map of Lhasa","kind":"map","status":"published","institution":"Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford","collection":"The Tibet Album · Sir Charles Bell","originalUrl":"https://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.686.html","catalogueId":"1998.285.686","creator":"Sir Charles Bell","sourceDate":"1923–1924","checkedAt":"2026-10-11","summary":"A lantern slide of a map published with Bell’s article in February 1924. The catalogue dates the photograph to 1923–1924.","placeIds":["lhasa"],"permissions":{"status":"link-only","statement":"Catalogue link only. No image, recording, or transcript is republished by Tibet Archive.","evidenceUrl":"https://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.686.html"},"historicalMap":{"alignment":"not-georeferenced","note":"Viewed as an archival object. It has not been aligned to the modern basemap; no street or building geometry has been inferred."}},{"id":"oxford-lhasa-dress","slug":"oxford-lhasa-dress","title":"Wife of a lay official in Lhasa dress","kind":"photograph","status":"published","institution":"Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford","collection":"The Tibet Album · Sir Charles Bell","originalUrl":"https://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.134.html","catalogueId":"1998.285.134","creator":"Rabden Lepcha? (catalogue attribution)","sourceDate":"1920–1921","checkedAt":"2026-10-11","summary":"The catalogue describes a portrait and its clothing and jewellery. It attributes the photograph to Rabden Lepcha with a question mark; that uncertainty is retained here.","placeIds":["lhasa"],"permissions":{"status":"link-only","statement":"Catalogue link only. No image, recording, or transcript is republished by Tibet Archive.","evidenceUrl":"https://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.134.html"}},{"id":"oxford-nyingma-monk","slug":"oxford-nyingma-monk","title":"Nyingma monk","kind":"photograph","status":"published","institution":"Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford","collection":"The Tibet Album · Sir Charles Bell","originalUrl":"https://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.225.1.html","catalogueId":"1998.285.225.1","creator":"Rabden Lepcha? (catalogue attribution)","sourceDate":"1920–1921","checkedAt":"2026-10-11","summary":"A seated portrait catalogued in Lhasa. The museum’s notes describe the identification as likely, rather than certain.","placeIds":["lhasa"],"permissions":{"status":"link-only","statement":"Catalogue link only. No image, recording, or transcript is republished by Tibet Archive.","evidenceUrl":"https://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.225.1.html"}},{"id":"oxford-postmaster","slug":"oxford-postmaster","title":"Buriat Lama and Tibetan Postmaster General","kind":"photograph","status":"published","institution":"Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford","collection":"The Tibet Album · Sir Charles Bell","originalUrl":"https://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.318.1.html","catalogueId":"1998.285.318.1","creator":"Rabden Lepcha; revised attribution uncertain","sourceDate":"1920–1921","checkedAt":"2026-10-11","summary":"A portrait of two seated figures. The catalogue names Rabden Lepcha and also records a revised attribution with a question mark.","placeIds":["lhasa"],"permissions":{"status":"link-only","statement":"Catalogue link only. No image, recording, or transcript is republished by Tibet Archive.","evidenceUrl":"https://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.318.1.html"}},{"id":"oxford-places","slug":"oxford-places","title":"Maps and places in The Tibet Album","kind":"collection","status":"published","institution":"Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford / British Museum","collection":"The Tibet Album","originalUrl":"https://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/tibet_places.html","sourceDate":"Catalogue published 2006","checkedAt":"2026-10-11","summary":"An entry point to the archive’s place index and maps of Central Tibet and Lhasa. Dates and descriptions belong to each original record.","placeIds":["lhasa"],"permissions":{"status":"link-only","statement":"Catalogue link only. No image, recording, or transcript is republished by Tibet Archive.","evidenceUrl":"https://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/tibet_places.html"}},{"id":"loc-samden-tshe-tashi","slug":"loc-samden-tshe-tashi","title":"Samden & Tshe Tashi · Part 5","kind":"oral-history","status":"published","institution":"Library of Congress, Asian Division","collection":"Tibetan Oral History Archive Project","originalUrl":"https://www.loc.gov/resource/asiantoha.OR_0434_05/","catalogueId":"OR_0434_05 · LCCN 2020706260","creator":"Interviewed by Melvyn Goldstein, Tashi Tsering, Trindor","sourceDate":"Recorded 1993","checkedAt":"2026-10-11","summary":"A Tibetan-language interview recorded in Lhasa, with an English transcript available at the Library of Congress. Part 5 of a seven-part catalogue record.","placeIds":["lhasa"],"permissions":{"status":"link-only","statement":"The Library of Congress states CC BY-NC 4.0 terms for the collection, subject to other applicable rights. This pilot links to the source and does not republish its media.","evidenceUrl":"https://www.loc.gov/collections/tibetan-oral-history-project/about-this-collection/rights-and-access/"}},{"id":"loc-collection","slug":"loc-collection","title":"Tibetan Oral History Archive Project","kind":"collection","status":"published","institution":"Library of Congress, Asian Division","collection":"Tibetan Oral History Archive Project","originalUrl":"https://www.loc.gov/collections/tibetan-oral-history-project/about-this-collection/","sourceDate":"Multiple recording dates","checkedAt":"2026-10-11","summary":"Collection-level context for the Common Folk, Political, and Drepung Monastery interviews. This is distinct from the Tibet Oral History Project.","placeIds":["lhasa"],"permissions":{"status":"link-only","statement":"Catalogue link only. No image, recording, or transcript is republished by Tibet Archive.","evidenceUrl":"https://www.loc.gov/collections/tibetan-oral-history-project/about-this-collection/"}},{"id":"tohp-collection","slug":"tohp-collection","title":"Tibet Oral History Project","kind":"collection","status":"published","institution":"Tibet Oral History Project","collection":"Interview collection","originalUrl":"https://www.tibetoralhistory.org/interviewcollection.php","sourceDate":"Multiple recording dates","checkedAt":"2026-10-11","summary":"An external collection of interviews with Tibetan elders. Its transcripts and translations have stated reuse restrictions. No interviews from this collection are republished here.","placeIds":[],"permissions":{"status":"link-only","statement":"Catalogue link only. No image, recording, or transcript is republished by Tibet Archive.","evidenceUrl":"https://www.tibetoralhistory.org/interviewcollection.php"}},{"id":"cnrs-place-names","slug":"cnrs-place-names","title":"Maps of the Tibetic area","kind":"reference","status":"published","institution":"CNRS · LACITO","collection":"The Tibetic Languages · Appendix 3","originalUrl":"https://lacito.cnrs.fr/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/TibeticLangV1_App3.pdf","sourceDate":"2023 hosted appendix","checkedAt":"2026-10-11","summary":"The administrative-name table supplies the Tibetan spelling shown for Lhasa City. This sourced label is not a reviewed translation of this website.","placeIds":["lhasa"],"permissions":{"status":"link-only","statement":"Catalogue link only. No image, recording, or transcript is republished by Tibet Archive.","evidenceUrl":"https://lacito.cnrs.fr/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/TibeticLangV1_App3.pdf"}},{"id":"osm-lhasa","slug":"osm-lhasa","title":"Lhasa geographic reference","kind":"reference","status":"published","institution":"OpenStreetMap contributors","collection":"OpenStreetMap Wiki","originalUrl":"https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lhasa","sourceDate":"Contemporary reference; not a historical survey","checkedAt":"2026-10-11","summary":"The reference places Lhasa at 29.65° N, 91.1° E. The atlas uses this only as an approximate city-level marker.","placeIds":["lhasa"],"permissions":{"status":"link-only","statement":"Catalogue link only. No image, recording, or transcript is republished by Tibet Archive.","evidenceUrl":"https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lhasa"}},{"id":"wikidata-jokhang","slug":"wikidata-jokhang","title":"Jokhang geographic reference","kind":"reference","status":"published","institution":"Wikidata contributors","collection":"Wikidata","originalUrl":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q735914","sourceDate":"Contemporary geographic reference","checkedAt":"2026-10-11","summary":"Tibetan label and approximate coordinates from Q735914. Not a historical survey.","placeIds":["jokhang"],"permissions":{"status":"licensed","statement":"Wikidata structured data is available under CC0.","evidenceUrl":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Licensing"}},{"id":"wikidata-gyantse","slug":"wikidata-gyantse","title":"Gyantse geographic reference","kind":"reference","status":"published","institution":"Wikidata contributors","collection":"Wikidata","originalUrl":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1999606","sourceDate":"Contemporary geographic reference","checkedAt":"2026-10-11","summary":"Tibetan town label and approximate coordinates from Q1999606. Not a historical survey.","placeIds":["gyantse"],"permissions":{"status":"licensed","statement":"Wikidata structured data is available under CC0.","evidenceUrl":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Licensing"}},{"id":"wikidata-labrang","slug":"wikidata-labrang","title":"Labrang Monastery geographic reference","kind":"reference","status":"published","institution":"Wikidata contributors","collection":"Wikidata","originalUrl":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1799533","sourceDate":"Contemporary geographic reference","checkedAt":"2026-10-11","summary":"Tibetan label and approximate coordinates from Q1799533. Not a historical survey.","placeIds":["labrang"],"permissions":{"status":"licensed","statement":"Wikidata structured data is available under CC0.","evidenceUrl":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Licensing"}},{"id":"lhasa-market-1938","slug":"lhasa-market-1938","title":"A market in Lhasa, 1938","kind":"photograph","status":"published","institution":"Bundesarchiv","collection":"Wikimedia Commons","originalUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_135-KA-06-085,_Tibetexpedition,_Marktplatz_in_Lhasa.jpg","creator":"Bundesarchiv, Bild 135-KA-06-085 / Ernst Krause","sourceDate":"1938","checkedAt":"2026-10-11","summary":"A market scene catalogued as Lhasa at New Year. Read it alongside memories of trade and pilgrimage; it is not an illustration of any one interview. The photograph comes from the 1938–39 German expedition and reflects an outsider’s view.","placeIds":["lhasa"],"permissions":{"status":"licensed","statement":"CC BY-SA 3.0 Germany. Served directly from Wikimedia Commons. Commons file has a cropped border; no additional edits.","evidenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/"},"image":{"url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Bundesarchiv_Bild_135-KA-06-085%2C_Tibetexpedition%2C_Marktplatz_in_Lhasa.jpg","alt":"A market in Lhasa, 1938","credit":"Bundesarchiv, Bild 135-KA-06-085 / Ernst Krause","license":"CC BY-SA 3.0 Germany","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/"}},{"id":"tibet-map-1906","slug":"tibet-map-1906","title":"Tibet and the surrounding regions, 1906","kind":"map","status":"published","institution":"Royal Geographical Society","collection":"Wikimedia Commons","originalUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1906_RGS_map_of_Tibet_and_the_Surrounding_Regions.jpg","creator":"Royal Geographical Society, via Wikimedia Commons","sourceDate":"1906","checkedAt":"2026-10-11","summary":"A historical map compiled by the Royal Geographical Society. This is a dated European cartographic perspective, not a Tibetan-authored map or a statement of present-day boundaries.","placeIds":["lhasa"],"permissions":{"status":"licensed","statement":"Public domain. Served directly from Wikimedia Commons. Historical map, not georeferenced.","evidenceUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1906_RGS_map_of_Tibet_and_the_Surrounding_Regions.jpg"},"image":{"url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/1906_RGS_map_of_Tibet_and_the_Surrounding_Regions.jpg","alt":"Tibet and the surrounding regions, 1906","credit":"Royal Geographical Society, via Wikimedia Commons","license":"Public domain","licenseUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1906_RGS_map_of_Tibet_and_the_Surrounding_Regions.jpg"}}],"stories":[{"id":"samden-tshe-tashi-part-5","slug":"samden-tshe-tashi-part-5","title":"Samden & Tshe Tashi","status":"published","origin":"external-catalogue","attribution":"Library of Congress, Asian Division · Tibetan Oral History Archive Project. Interviewed by Melvyn Goldstein, Tashi Tsering, Trindor.","sourceIds":["loc-samden-tshe-tashi"],"placeIds":["lhasa"],"recordingDate":"1993","period":"Life before and after 1959; recording date is separate","catalogueNote":"Part 5 of a seven-part interview record. The Library of Congress catalogue describes recollections of monastic life, tailoring, and work in Lhasa. 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