Yale Himalaya Initiative

In this video, filmmaker and writer Kesang Tseten discusses his film, Who Will Be A Gurkha?, a documentary about Nepali Gurkhas who have been recruited into the British military for decades. Tseten's documentaries have won several awards in film festivals in Nepal and been screened at international film festivals across the world.

In this keynote address from the 2014 Himalayan Studies Conference at Yale University, Professor Françoise Robin delivers a lecture on the increasing presence in Tibetan poetry and films of the disappearing herders' black tent during the settlement of the mid 2000s.

In this video produced for the Yale Himalaya Initiative, journalist and publisher Kunda Dixit discusses how the press can play a substantive and meaningful role in report about civil conflict and environmental pressures in Nepal.

In this video produced for the Yale Himalaya Initiative, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at Yale, Sara Shneiderman, discusses her long-term research projects on mobility and identity in the Himalaya. A founding member of the Yale Himalaya Initiative, Professor Shneiderman reflects on the growth of Himalayan Studies at Yale, and its impact outside of the scholarly community. The photographs in this video are used under permission of Sara Shneiderman.

In this video produced for the Yale Himalaya Initiative, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Andrew Quintman, offers a detailed exploration of the aesthetic, cultural and religious significance of thangka paintings in the Himalaya. This video explores 6 of more than 70 extraordinary scroll paintings held in Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library's collection, all of which can be viewed online at Photo credits: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

In this video produced for the Yale Himalaya Initiative, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Andrew Quintman, provides an introduction to the aesthetic, cultural and religious significance of thangka paintings in the Himalaya. This video is supplemented with a longer video exploring five more thangkas from the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library's collection of over 70, all of which can be viewed online at Photo credits: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library