[This document can be acquired from a sub-directory coombspapers via anonymous FTP and/or COOMBSQUEST gopher on the node COOMBS.ANU.EDU.AU] The document's ftp filename and the full directory path are given in the coombspapers top level INDEX file] [This version: 13 August 1993] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 10:04:41 +1000 Sender: Tibet Interest List From: "Dr T.Matthew Ciolek" Subject: The Coombspapers' and Coombsquest 's Tibetan Studies Archives at ANU -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Friends and Colleagues, The Coombspapers Social Sciences Research Data Bank anon.ftp archive on coombs.anu.edu.au at the Research Schools of Social Sciences and Pacific Studies of the Australian National University, Canberra has recently set up a specialist electronic area called "Tibetan Studies Archives". Presently (12 Aug 93) it's contents are: ============ DIRECTORY: /coombspapers/otherarchives/tibetan-studies-archives Subdir: /tibetan-studies-archives/dalai-lama-documents dalai-lama-nobel-speech.txt - 1989 Nobel Prize acceptance speech. dalai-lama-on-human-rights.txt - 1993 speech for NGO UN conference on human rights, Vienna. dalai-lama-on-practice.txt - 1992? speech on Buddhist practice in intl. politics dalai-lama-reform-plans.txt - 1993 summary of the planned reforms of Tibetan Buddhism Subdir: /tibetan-studies-archives/networked-inf-sources about-tibet-l-group.txt - about the TIBET-L listserv discussion group about-tin-tibet-inf-network.txt - May93 details of services by T.I.N non-profit organisation, UK Subdir: /tibetan-studies-archives/other-governments-documents europarliament-on-tibet.txt - full text of Dec92 resolution of the European Parliament Subdir: /tibetan-studies-archives/tibet-government-documents tibet-facts-chptr-01.txt - full text of the Jun93 'Tibet: Proving Truth from Facts' document tibet-facts-chptr-02.txt tibet-facts-chptr-03.txt tibet-facts-chptr-04.txt tibet-facts-chptr-05.txt tibet-facts-chptr-06.txt tibet-facts-chptr-07.txt tibet-facts-chptr-08.txt tibet-facts-chptr-09.txt tibet-facts-chptr-10.txt tibet-facts-chptr-11.txt tibet-facts-exec-summary.txt- Jun93 exec. summary the 'Tibet: Proving Truth from Facts' doc. ============ At the same time the Coombspapers' "Electronic Buddhist Archives" area contained the following Tibet-related materials: ============ DIRECTORY: /coombspapers/otherarchives/electronic-buddhist-archives Subdir: /buddhism-tibetan phd-tibet-community-india.txt - abstract of E. Stutchbury's dissertation (1991) sakya-lam-bras-bibl.txt - Lama Choedak T. Yuthok's complete catalogue of Sakya Lam 'Bras literature tibetan-buddhism-1bibl.txt - Dr. G. Samuel's refs (up to early 1991) tibetan-buddhism-2bibl.txt to research on Tibetan societies and religion (Buddhism & shamanism) Subdir: /buddhism-tibetan/clear-mind-nwsltr [newsletter of the Sakya Losal Choe-Dzong Tibetan Buddhist Society, Canberra , Australia ] clear-mind-06-nov90.txt clear-mind-07-jan91.txt clear-mind-08-apr91.txt clear-mind-09-aug91.txt clear-mind-10-jan92.txt clear-mind-11-apr92.txt clear-mind-12-aug92.txt clear-mind-13-nov92.txt clear-mind-14-may93.txt clear-mind-15-aug93.txt clear-mind-coverpage.msw - a cover page of the Clear-Mind newsletter in MSWord5 format Subdir: /buddhism-tibetan/sakya-teachings lama-choedak-90nov.txt - Lama Choedak on the significance of a Buddhist shrine lama-choedak-91may.txt - Lama Choedak on the right view of life lama-choedak-93aug.txt - Lama Choedak on Ngondro practice ============ All these materials are freely available 24 hr/day, world-wide and are also readily accessible via the Coombsquest gopher : ============ Name=COOMBSQUEST Soc.Sci & Humanities Inf.Facility at ANU Type=1 Port=70 Path= Host=cheops.anu.edu.au ============ As the editor and administrator of the Coombspapers Archives and the Coombsquest Gopher, I would like to invite and encourage all interested individuals and organisations to take advantage of the ANU's electronic archiving and publishing facilities. You are warmly invited to e-mail to the address given below [or deposit , via the anon. ftp, in the inboundpapers area of the top level Coombspapers' directory] any number of high quality, screen-formatted, low-ascii (plain text) documents and files concerning all aspects of Tibet's society, religion, culture, history, environment and political developments. These documents will be appropriatedly annotated and named (with the authors/owners fully credited and acknowledged), indexed and finally installed for permanent electronic archiving by the ANU and the world-wide free-of-charge public access via the Internet. - with many regards - -================================================== Dr T. Matthew CIOLEK tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au Coombs Computing Unit, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia =================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------- end of file