Wikipedia:WikiProject Tibet

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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:Asia.

Departments

Core articles

• 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.

Assessment statistics

Tibet articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		1		1			2
GA		3	4	4			11
B	12	31	21	33		22	119
C	8	48	51	126		108	341
Start	6	75	185	329		256	851
Stub		19	60	609		280	968
List	1	5	7	15		12	40
NA		4	7	544	956		1,511
Assessed	27	186	335	1,661	956	678	3,843
Total	27	186	335	1,661	956	678	3,843
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 11,806			Ω = 5.15

Naming conventions

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

Article creation and expansion

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)

Requested photographs

• Requested photographs on Tibet

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.

Stub expansion

This project includes the following stub categories:

• Tibet stubs
• Tibetan geography stubs
• Tibetan Buddhism stubs

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
• Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Nyima_Gyaincain - Listed 7 October 2017.

Featured content

Featured articles

• Nathu La
• Tibet during the Ming Dynasty

Good articles

Includes Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism related articles:

• Sera Monastery
• Paro Taktsang
• Punakha Dzong
• Alchi Monastery

Participants

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1. AD64 (talk · contribs)
2. Anythingpossible (talk · contribs)
3. AQu01rius (talk · contribs)
4. Dr. Blofeld (talk · contribs)
5. Babelfisch (talk · contribs)
6. Baphijmm (talk · contribs)
7. Bertport (talk · contribs)
8. Bodhisattwa (talk · contribs) — active in Bengali Wikipedia where I have created 650+ articles on Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism.
9. CFynn (talk · contribs)
10. Chadsnook (talk · contribs)
11. Dakinijones (talk · contribs)
12. deeptrivia (talk · contribs)
13. Djembayz (talk · contribs)
14. Djlewis (talk · contribs)
15. Elnon (talk · contribs)
16. Enigmaticanant (talk · contribs)
17. Esowteric (talk · contribs)
18. Gimme danger (talk · contribs)
19. Gruschke (talk · contribs)
20. Hazarasp (talk · contribs)
21. jmlee369 (talk · contribs)
22. John Hill (talk · contribs)
23. Kautilya3 (talk · contribs)
24. Khoikhoi (talk · contribs)
25. Kondicherry (talk · contribs)
26. kt66 (talk · contribs)
27. Leitz (talk · contribs)
28. Longchenpa (talk · contribs)
29. MacPraughan (talk · contribs)
30. MainBody (talk · contribs)
31. Mathglot (talk · contribs)
32. Mikhailov Kusserow (talk · contribs)
33. MMVarland (talk · contribs)
34. Moonsell (talk · contribs)
35. Nat Krause (talk · contribs)
36. Ochilov (talk · contribs)
37. Orgyen108 (talk · contribs)
38. Owlmonkey (talk · contribs)
39. PericlesofAthens (talk · contribs)
40. Petrarchan47 (talk · contribs)
41. Rudyh01 (talk · contribs)
42. samuraidude123 (talk · contribs)
43. SakyaTrizin (talk · contribs)
44. Siru108 (talk · contribs)
45. Sylvain1972 (talk · contribs)
46. Tangerines (talk · contribs)
47. Tdudkowski (talk · contribs)
48. Tibetologist (talk · contribs)
49. TinaLees-Jones (talk · contribs)
50. Thegreyanomaly (talk · contribs)
51. Wikimedes (talk · contribs)
52. Yue (talk · contribs)

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. darkstar9999 (talk · contribs)
4. Kosigrim (talk · contribs)
5. Metta Bubble (talk · contribs)
6. Tibetanmuseum (talk · contribs)
7. Vgyan (talk · contribs)

Blocked users

1. B9_hummingbird_hovering (talk · contribs)
2. Zero_sharp (talk · contribs)

Templates

Tibet-related articles

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

(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.)

Tibetan Buddhism articles

To tag articles focused on the religion of Tibetan Buddhism, use the template:
{{WikiProject Tibetan Buddhism | class= | importance= }}

Userbox

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

• {{User WP Tibet|left}}

བོད་This user is a participant in WikiProject Tibet.

• {{User WP Tibet|center}}

བོད་This user is a participant in
WikiProject Tibet.

• {{User WP Tibet|left|list}}

བོད་This user is a participant in WikiProject Tibet.
talk | articles | stubs

• {{User WP Tibet|center|list}}

བོད་This user is a participant in
WikiProject Tibet.
talk | articles | stubs

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}}}

Categories

Tibet

Tibetology

Tibet-related lists

Works about Tibet

Amdo

Tibetan astronomy

Buildings and structures in Tibet

Buildings in Tibet

Tibetan culture

Tibetan diaspora

Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Economy of Tibet

Education in Tibet

Environment of Tibet

Geography of Tibet

Health in Tibet

History of Tibet

Kham

Tibetan language

Law of Tibet

Military in Tibet

Organizations based in Tibet

Tibetan people

Politics of Tibet

Religion in Tibet

Tibetan society

Tibet Autonomous Region

Tourist attractions in Tibet

Tibet stubs

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 {{WikiProject Tibetan Buddhism}} on the talk pages.

Articles by quality statistics and box for articles

The banner above produces the following statistics. Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Tibetan Buddhism articles by quality statistics

Structure

Current:

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

"Tibetan Buddhism series" box

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

Categories

We have the following categories currently:

• Category:Tibetan Buddhism

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:

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?)

External links

• "THL's Online Tibetan Phonetics Converter". Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library. - A tool to convert Tibetan or Wylie text into Roman phonetics.
• Andrés Montano Pellegrini. "THL Tibetan to English Translation Tool". Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library. - Online Tibetan-English Dictionary and translation tool.
• "Rangjung Yeshe Wiki — Dharma Dictionary". Rangjung Yeshe Wiki. Tsadra Foundation.
• "Treasury of Lives: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Himalayan Religion". Treasury of Lives. The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation. — Good, peer reviewed, biographies of past Himalayan religious masters, Buddhist and Bon as well as some background articles.
• "Monier Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary". Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries. Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies, Cologne University. 2008. - Monier Monier-Williams's Sanskrit-English dictionary
• For Windows users who deal in devanagari and/or romanization on a regular basis, try Itranslator

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
• Phayul.com