Age Peoples of Xinjiang, Northwest China”, in The Golden Deer of Eurasia: Perspectives on the Steppe Nomads of the Ancient World (eds. J. Aruzmoke, et al.), pp. 132–145. New York:…
Plateau to the Seventh Century A.D.: Perspectives and Research from China and the West Since 1950”, in Journal of World Prehistory, vol. 18 (no. 1), pp. 1–55. New York: Springer….
Himalaya. The contents of the newsletter are: 1) A Review of the Early Cultural History of Spiti – Part Two The root song of Spiti The territorial deities of Spiti…
book-length project. I trust they will prove a useful resource in the study of ancient Spiti. Thanks to the generous support of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation (New York)…
academic articles and books over the last few years has been made possible by a recurring grant from the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation of New York. Mr. Donald Rubin…
By the end of the journey, I had collected some 6000 photographs of Spitian rock art, probably the largest collection of such images in the world. Upcoming newsletters will present…
National Endowment for the Humanities Rubin Museum of Art shared grant (New York City) 2000: Philadelphia Theravadin Meditation Center (Philadelphia, PA) 2001, 1998: Spalding Trust (Stowmarket, UK) 1998, 1997: Shang…
Greetings and get ready for another Flight of the Khyung! This month’s newsletter has four features ranging from ancient glories to contemporary threats, taking you far and wide. The…
Mnga’-ris skor-gsum and/or the later rulers of Lo. There are also a few religious inscriptions on the walls but they seem relatively new. Rong may possibly be associated with Rong-phug…
Alchi Petroglyph Field Himalayan Art in 108 Objects, New York: Rubin Museum of Art, 2023 Gold Burial Mask with Engraved Animals Himalayan Art in 108 Objects, New York: Rubin…
a highly informative article on the stone-roofed structures of Ladakh to this newsletter. To complement his study, I shall provide additional information on one site of particular interest, Nyarma. This…
civilization after circa 1000 CE. There are no large ruins from later times, monastic or secular, to believe otherwise. Despite the region’s traditional associations with the antecedent Zhang Zhung kingdom,…
of Tibetan texts, so I decided to devote most of this newsletter to them. The work is quite technical but even for those who might not want to delve too…
9th century CE, pending codicological confirmation). This text indicates that Turkic regions north of Tibet shared the same tradition of horses used to ritually transport the dead to the next world….
…on the Roof of the World Rowman & Littlefield Lanham, Maryland; London, United Kingdom ISBN 978-1-4422-3461-1 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-4422-3462-8 (electronic) This groundbreaking book provides a new…
threats to the integrity of the region’s history and cultural heritage are faced almost daily. The article featured in this newsletter began as a lecture delivered at the Conference of…
pressure at this elevation is too low to sustain human life on a permanent basis. In ancient times, like today, the use of this location would have been limited to…
Welcome to another Flight of the Khyung, your time capsule to the Tibetan world of yore! This month’s newsletter supplies you with two more original articles on the rock…
Welcome to the Flight of the Khyung marking nine years of this newsletter’s publication! This 109th issue is focused on cultural interconnections between Spiti and Upper Tibet and Ladakh…
They are all beads, meaning that they have a hole running through them that can be used to pass a string through or to attach metal clips for affixing to…
FOSSATI (eds.), Rock Art Studies: News of the World I. Recent Developments in Rock Art Research (Acts of Symposium 14D at the NEWS 95 World Rock Art Congress, Turin and…
am composing this second half of my newsletter in Lhasa, the capital of what is now known as the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). Situated at 3600 m above sea level,…
Welcome to Flight of the Khyung, your journey to the mysteries of ancient Tibet! This month’s newsletter boasts an article about recent archaeological discoveries in Ladakh, written by Dr….
in uppermost Tibet, the highest land in the world. The momentous rise of a new cultural and technological world at the end of the Bronze Age, nearly 3000 years ago,…
us. I make this point because there may be some readers of this newsletter who are not very familiar with the Western method of scholarship and its reliance on open…
New Year’s Greetings Happy New Year! May 2009 bring much joy to all of you, a time for attainment and illumination. One could despair of the current world economic…
social mix. A Political Road Ahead for Mongolia? The good news is that the economic and environmental problems touched upon above are manageable with the right kind of political leadership….
routes, defensive endowments, etc.). An agrarian way of life requires fixed facilities for the housing of grain and other produce, agricultural implements, and stock used in plowing, transport and threshing….
posting that newsletter I have consulted with three highly respected Himalayan art experts: Jeff Watt (New York), Dawa Gyaltsen (Kathmandu) and Ian Alsop (Santa Fe). They all confirm that this…
