From the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art comes this online exhibit dedicated to the 1938 journey of Wilber L. Cummings, Jr. (1914-1943) and F. Bailey Vanderhoef, Jr., who traveled from Kalimpong, India to western Tibet. As UCSB religious studies scholar Jose Ignacio Cabezon explains in the introduction to this exhibit, the pair hoped to "document the...

As stated on the home page, "The Tibetan & Himalayan Digital Library is an international community using Web-based technologies to integrate diverse knowledge about Tibet and the Himalayas for free access from around the world." In other words, visitors to THDL can expect more than an image database and digital documents, although these materials are present. The Guide to Resources, accessed by...