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REL/ASIA 172: Tibetan Buddhism and Society

Prof. Annabella Pitkin, Fall 2023

Welcome!

Tibetan Buddhism in Nepal 12th-century painting on book cover

Nepal (Kathmandu Valley); Manuscript Covers; Paintings. Distemper on wood, centurydate QS:P571,+ -00-00T00:00:00Z/7 1150. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detail,_Tibetan_Buddhism_in_Nepal,_12th-century_painting_on_book_cover,_-_MET_1984_479_1a_F_(cropped).jpg.

 

Use the tabs in this guide to:

  • Learn strategies for evaluating information
  • Find interdisciplinary and subject specific sources and how to cite them
  • "Geek out" on library resources

The Research Process

 

Types of information sources

Davidson, Sara. “A Cycle of Revolving Research.” University of California Libraries. http://library.ucmerced.edu/rpt/knowledge_cycle_8.

Information lifecycle

Feist, Kirsten. “The Information Cycle.” University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Libraries. http://www.library.illinois.edu/ugl/howdoi/informationcycle.html