{"id":20668,"date":"2014-02-19T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/?p=20668"},"modified":"2024-01-13T11:10:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T11:10:15","slug":"rescued-tibetan-texts-re-housed-in-chengdu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/zh-hant\/rescued-tibetan-texts-re-housed-in-chengdu\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescued Tibetan Texts Re-housed in Chengdu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In what marks the resolution of an historic episode, some 12,000 Tibetan-language books have been returned to China. Their collector was American scholar of Tibetan history and literature E. Gene Smith (1936-2010). Smith gathered many of the texts from Tibetan refugees during the decade of the Cultural Revolution. Smith made it his mission to collect and preserve these remnants of Tibetan culture, amassing the world\u2019s largest private collection of Tibetan literature. He donated his collection to the Southwest University for Nationalities in Chengdu \u2013 but not before making a digital copy of every text. \u201cThey came from Asia, and Asia is where they belong,\u201d Smith said. Included in the donation are salaries for four archivists to scan and catalogue the texts, which are freely accessible online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center opened its library last October. Chengdu, which is 1,200 miles from Lhasa, has a large Tibetan community. Since it opened, further manuscripts have been brought to the Centre which were thought to have been lost or destroyed. Many had been preserved by Tibetan monks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Utah, Mr. Smith spoke 32 languages and spent much of his life working for the Library of Congress. His interest in Tibetan literature began through an encounter with a Buddhist lama, who was brought to America by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1960. Smith converted to Buddhism, and moved to India in search of Tibetan books. He printed thousands of copies of rare texts to distribute to libraries internationally, always keeping a copy in his own library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/16\/world\/asia\/after-winding-odyssey-tibetan-texts-find-home-in-china.html?nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=edit_th_20140216&amp;_r=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.randian-online.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/bull-tibet1-master675.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.randian-online.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/bull-tibet1-master675-e1392791897299.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34230\" title=\"bull-tibet1-master675\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A Tibetan law student at the E. Gene Smith Library in southwest China. Photo: Gilles Sabrie for The New York Times<br>\u4e00\u540d\u897f\u85cf\u6cd5\u5b66\u9662\u5b66\u751f\u6b63\u7ad9\u5728\u897f\u5357\u5927\u5b66\u56fe\u4e66\u9986\u4e2d\u3002\u6444\u5f71\uff1a\u7ebd\u7ea6\u65f6\u62a5Gilles Sabrie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what marks the resolution of an histo &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/zh-hant\/rescued-tibetan-texts-re-housed-in-chengdu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[14934,14936,14932,14935,14933,14937,14938,14939,14940,14941,14942,14943,14944,14945,14946,14947],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rescued Tibetan Texts Re-housed in Chengdu - \u71c3\u70b9 Ran Dian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/rescued-tibetan-texts-re-housed-in-chengdu\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"zh_TW\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rescued Tibetan Texts Re-housed in Chengdu - \u71c3\u70b9 Ran Dian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In what marks the resolution of an histo &hellip; Continue reading &rarr;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/rescued-tibetan-texts-re-housed-in-chengdu\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"\u71c3\u70b9 Ran Dian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-02-19T11:08:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-01-13T11:10:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/randian-art.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2024\/01\/bull-tibet1-superJumbo.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1050\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lien\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Lien\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"\u9810\u4f30\u95b1\u8b80\u6642\u9593\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 \u5206\u9418\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/rescued-tibetan-texts-re-housed-in-chengdu\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/rescued-tibetan-texts-re-housed-in-chengdu\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Lien\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/#\/schema\/person\/52a3fdee246825a3356b50e0c44bbeeb\"},\"headline\":\"Rescued Tibetan Texts Re-housed in Chengdu\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-02-19T11:08:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-01-13T11:10:15+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/rescued-tibetan-texts-re-housed-in-chengdu\/\"},\"wordCount\":284,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"12000 Tibetan-language books\",\"E. 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