Mapping the Dalai Lamas
The Dalai Lamas are arguably the most important leaders of Tibetan Buddhism, so much so that is not possible to understand Tibetan history since 1600 without understanding the institution of the Dalai Lamas. "Mapping the Dalai Lamas" intends to integrate digital texts of classical Tibetan-language biographies with digital animated maps, timelines, and images to present significant events in the lives of the Dalai Lamas as well as to reveal hitherto unnoticed connections between biographical event, geographic location, social and historical context, and literary and rhetorical expression. The project begins with the famous autobiography of the Fifth Dalai lama (1617-1682), who is in great part responsible for the shape of early modern Tibetan culture.
This project is carried out under the auspices of the Insitute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) at the University of Virginia
