Shortcut: WP:TIBET

Welcome! The aim of this project is to standardize and improve articles related to Tibet and the Tibet Autonomous Region. It is also to establish missing articles related to Tibet including geography (Tibetan villages) as well as to improve and create missing articles relating to Tibetan culture and Tibetan Buddhism.

Please also visit Portal:Tibet, Portal:Tibetan Buddhism and Portal:Himalaya region.

Contents 1 Departments 1.1 Core articles 1.2 Assessment 1.3 Naming conventions 1.4 Collaboration of the month 1.5 Article creation and expansion 1.5.1 Requested articles 1.5.2 Requested photographs 1.5.3 Towns and villages 1.5.4 Stub expansion 1.5.5 Articles for deletion 2 Featured content 2.1 Featured articles 2.2 Featured article candidates 2.3 Good articles 2.4 Good article candidates 3 Participants 3.1 Inactive Members 4 Templates 4.1 Notice 4.2 Userbox 4.3 Barnstars 5 Categories 6 Himalaya 7 Tibetan Buddhism 7.1 Structure 7.2 Categories 7.3 Article Construction 7.3.1 Texts 8 External links 9 Tibetan links

[edit] Departments

[edit] Core articles

• 2008 Tibetan protests
• Tibet main article
• Tibet Autonomous Region
• Lhasa
• Dalai Lama
• Tibetan Buddhism

See the draft version of List of basic Tibet topics for a list of articles which need to be created.

[edit] Assessment

We have zero articles with no class designation and about 250 with no importance designation. Have at it! If anyone knows a lot about assessment, your help would be appreciated in setting up this department.

• Cat:Unassessed Tibet articles
• Cat:Unknown-importance Tibet articles

[edit] Naming conventions

For the transcription of Tibetan words and names, and for the naming of articles, please see the proposed naming convention for Tibetan.

[edit] Collaboration of the month

[edit] Article creation and expansion

[edit] Requested articles

• Four harmonious animals - kind of like the Town Musicians of Bremen, although the point in forming a pyramid is never really made clear. Yaan (talk) 17:27, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Requested photographs

• Requested photographs on Tibet

[edit] Towns and villages

There is an ongoing drive to improve all of the articles in List of towns and villages in Tibet. One of our goals is to add and infobox and locator map for all 800 odd places and begin adding basic encyclopedic data and transliterations. This is the infobox for settlements in Tibet. Please add this and fill in the relevant data if you see an article on a town or village missing it.

[edit] Stub expansion

This project includes the following stub categories:

• Tibet stubs
• Tibetan geography stubs
• Tibetan Buddhism stubs

[edit] Articles for deletion

• Serfdom in Tibet (AfD archive) - listed May 27 2008, kept by default of no-consensus. article currently named Serfdom in Tibet controversy

[edit] Featured content

[edit] Featured articles

• Nathu La
• Tibet during the Ming Dynasty

[edit] Featured article candidates

[edit] Good articles

[edit] Good article candidates

[edit] Participants

Please add your name to this list using {{user|username}}

1. Dr. Blofeld (talk · contribs)
2. AQu01rius (talk · contribs)
3. Bertport (talk · contribs)
4. deeptrivia (talk · contribs)
5. Gimme danger (talk · contribs)
6. jmlee369 (talk · contribs)
7. John Hill (talk · contribs)
8. kt66 (talk · contribs)
9. Nat Krause (talk · contribs)
10. Rudyh01 (talk · contribs)
11. Sylvain1972 (talk · contribs)
12. Tangerines (talk · contribs)
13. Zero_sharp (talk · contribs)
14. Tibetologist (talk · contribs)
15. Khoikhoi (talk · contribs)
16. B9_hummingbird_hovering (talk · contribs)
17. Babelfisch (talk · contribs)
18. Gruschke (talk · contribs)
19. Enigmaticanant (talk · contribs)
20. Orgyen108 (talk · contribs)
21. MainBody (talk · contribs)
22. Thegreyanomaly (talk · contribs)
23. Owlmonkey (talk · contribs)
24. Moonsell (talk · contribs)
25. Leitz (talk · contribs)
26. samuraidude123 (talk · contribs)
27. Tdudkowski (talk · contribs)
28. PericlesofAthens (talk · contribs)
29. Longchenpa (talk · contribs)
30. Dakinijones (talk · contribs)
31. Siru108 (talk · contribs)
32. Chadsnook (talk · contribs)
33. Anythingpossible (talk · contribs)

[edit] Inactive Members

The following members have made no edits since January 1, 2008, and may or may not be returning to the project. If you've been put on this list and are an active editor, please re-add yourself above.

1. Badbilltucker (talk · contribs)
2. Csbodine (talk · contribs)
3. Metta Bubble (talk · contribs)
4. Tibetanmuseum (talk · contribs)
5. darkstar9999 (talk · contribs)
6. Kosigrim (talk · contribs)
7. Vgyan (talk · contribs)

[edit] Templates

[edit] Notice

To tag Tibet-related articles, simply add tibet=yes in the {{WPCHINA}} parameters, and it will display the following:

WikiProject Tibet		TibetWikipedia:WikiProject TibetTemplate:WikiProject TibetTibet articles
v • d • e This article is within the scope of WikiProject Tibet, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Tibet on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.  ???  This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale.  ???  This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale.

WikiProject China		ChinaWikipedia:WikiProject ChinaTemplate:WikiProject ChinaChina-related articles
v • d • e This article is within the scope of WikiProject China, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of China related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.  ???  This article has not yet received a rating on the project's quality scale.  ???  This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

(Note that in this example the notice has been classified as "NA", so that it will not appear on the list of unassessed articles. This will not happen normally if the above code is used.)

[edit] Userbox

Add {{User WikiProject Tibet}} to your userpage if you want, to show that you are a participant of this project.

[edit] Barnstars

Open task: a special WikiProject Tibet Barnstar. Until then, here are a few options:

• The current WPCHINA Barnstar

{{The Zhonghua Barnstar of Merit}}

		Zhonghua Barnstar of Merit
		This award is given to those who have made significant contributions to articles that are part of Wikipedia:WikiProject China.
		this WikiAward was given to WikiProject Tibet by ~ on ~~~

• For work related to Buddhism

{{The Buddha Barnstar}}

		The Buddhism Barnstar
		{{{1}}}

[edit] Categories

[edit] Himalaya

• Portal:Himalaya region

[edit] Tibetan Buddhism

Articles which are not really related to WikiProject China and are related to Buddhism in Tibet whether, biographies, monasteries, cultural traditions etc., should be tagged with the Tibetan Buddhism template on the talk pages.

WikiProject Tibetan Buddhism	(Rated NA-Class)	Tibetan BuddhismWikipedia:WikiProject Tibetan BuddhismTemplate:WikiProject Tibetan BuddhismTibetan Buddhism articles
Tibetan Buddhism portal v • d • e This page is part of WikiProject Tibet:Tibetan Buddhism, an attempt to improve content and create better coordination between articles related to traditional religion, cultural practices and customs in Tibet. Please participate in improvement by editing WikiProject Tibet and related pages, or visit the WikiProject Tibet main page for more details on the projects. Guidelines: Indic Manual of Style - Naming conventions Tibetan Proposed naming conventions  NA  This page does not require a rating on the project's quality scale.

The compact (but expandable) "Tibetan Buddhism series" box can be placed on the main page of appropriate articles.

Part of a series on Tibetan Buddhism
History
Timeline · Related-topics
Schools
Nyingma · Kagyu · Sakya · Gelug · Bön
Key Concepts
Three marks of existence · Skandha · Cosmology · Saṃsāra · Rebirth · Bodhisattva · Dharma · Dependent Origination · Karma
Major Figures
Gautama Buddha · Padmasambhava · Je Tsongkhapa · Dalai Lama · Panchen Lama · Lama · Karmapa Lama · Rinpoche · Geshe · Terton · Tulku
Practices and Attainment
Buddhahood · Avalokiteśvara · Four Stages of Enlightenment · Tantric yoga · Paramitas · Meditation · Laity
Major Monasteries
Changzhug · Drepung · Dzogchen · Ganden · Jokhang · Kumbum  · Labrang · Mindroling · Namgyal · Narthang · Nechung · Pabonka · Palcho · Ralung · Ramoche · Sakya · Sanga · Sera · Shalu · Tashilhunpo · Tsurphu · Yerpa
Major Festivals
Chotrul Duchen · Dajyur · Losar · Monlam · Sho Dun
Texts
Kangyur · Tengyur · Tibetan Canon · Mahayana Sutras
Art
Sand mandala · Thangka · Ashtamangala · Tree of physiology
Comparative Studies  · Culture  · List of topics  · Portal
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[edit] Structure

Current:

• Tibetan Buddhism provides an overview of the topic, with short descriptions of all the major subtopics.
• Tibetan Buddhist canon

[edit] Categories

We have the following categories currently:

• Category:Tibetan Buddhism

[edit] Article Construction

Discuss the format for each article based on the WikiProject. Include various categories applicable to the topic.

We should probably discuss article types, which may have different parameters. Example types might be:

[edit] Texts

Articles on texts should include:

• Text's title. Should be also given in Wylie transliteration.
• Authorship, if known. If the supposed authorship of a text is not established by scholarship, list it as an attribution: "The text is attributed to such-and-such." Name or names of the author should be also given in Wylie transliteration.
• Date
• Place of origin (if known); should be also given in Wylie transliteration.
• A rough overview of the contents of the text
• Separate sections for particularly important ideas in the text. Alternatively, short descriptions and links to articles on said ideas.
• Whatever caveats regarding disputes over readings of the text, etc.
• Associated sect(s) (Indicate, where appropriate, whether the text originated within the sect or was adopted by it after the fact.)
• A table of translations, like this one:

Mulamadhyakakarika

Author	Title	Publisher	Date	Notes
Garfield, Jay L.	The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way	Oxford University Press	1995	A translation of the Tibetan version together with commentary.
Inada, Kenneth K.	Nagarjuna: A Translation of his Mulamadhyamakakarika With an Introductory Essay	The Hokuseido Press	1970	Romanized text and translation.
Kalupahana, David J.	Nagarjuna: The Philosophy of the Middle Way	State University of New York Press	1986	Romanized text, translation, and commentary.
McCagney, N.	Nagarjuna and the Philosophy of Openness	Rowman & Littlefield	1997	Romanized text, translation and philosophical analysis.
Sprung, M.	Lucid Exposition of the Middle Way	RKP	1979	Partial translation of the verses together with Chandrakirti's commentary.
Streng, Frederick	Emptiness: A Study in Religious Meaning	Abdingdon Press	1967	Translation and considerable analysis.
Thurman, Robert	Wisdom: The Fundamental Stanzas on the Middle Way		draft

• A "See also" section for internal links.
• An "External links" section for articles about the text, electronic versions of the text. (Separate sections for this?)

[edit] External links

• Monier Monier-Williams's Sanskrit-English dictionary
• Online interface to itrans. Choose "roman" for your language, and "html" for your output.
• For Windows users who deal in devanagari and/or romanization on a regular basis, try Itranslator
• RangjungYesheWiki

[edit] Tibetan links

• Official government website of the Central Tibetan Administration
• Tibetan language page
• Official Website of Students for a Free Tibet
• Office of Tibet - London