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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 [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lists_of_basic_topics/Draft/List_of_basic_Tibet_topics|List of basic Tibet topics]] for a list of articles which need to be created.

===Assessment statistics===
{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Tibet articles by quality statistics}}

===Naming conventions===
For the transcription of Tibetan words and names, and for the naming of articles, please see the proposed [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Tibetan)|naming convention for Tibetan]].

===Collaboration of the month===

===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. [[User:Yaan|Yaan]] ([[User talk:Yaan|talk]]) 17:27, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

====Requested photographs====
*[[:Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Tibet|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. [[/Settlement Infobox|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:
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Tibet_stubs Tibet stubs]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Tibet_geography_stubs Tibetan geography stubs]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Stub-Class_Tibetan_Buddhism_articles Tibetan Buddhism stubs]

====Articles for deletion====
*[[Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Serfdom_in_Tibet|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]]

===Featured article candidates===

===Good articles===
Includes Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism related articles:

*[[Sera Monastery]]
*[[Paro Taktsang]]
*[[Punakha Dzong]]
*[[Alchi Monastery]]

===Good article candidates===

==[[File:Nuvola apps kdmconfig.png|20px]] Participants==
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==Templates==
===Tibet-related articles===
To tag Tibet-related articles, simply add '''Tibet=yes''' in the {{tl|WPCHINA}} parameters, and it will display the following:

{{WikiProject China|tibet=yes|category=no}}

(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:<br>
<b><nowiki>{{WikiProject Tibetan Buddhism | class= | importance= }}</nowiki></b>
{{WikiProject Tibetan Buddhism | class= | importance= |category=no}} 

===Userbox===
Add {{tl|User WP Tibet}} to your userpage if you want, to show that you are a participant of this project:
{{User WP/subex|User WP Tibet|list}}

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

*The current WPCHINA Barnstar
:{{tl|The Zhonghua Barnstar of Merit}}
{| style="border: 1px solid {{{border|gray}}}; background-color: {{{color|#fdffe7}}}; width:100%"
|rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;width:5em"| [[Image:Chinese Unity Barnstar of National Merit.png|60px]]
|rowspan="3" |
|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: bottom; height: 1.1em;" | '''Zhonghua Barnstar of Merit'''
|-
|style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray; height:5em;"| This award is given to those who have made significant contributions to articles that are part of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject China]]. 
|-
|style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" |<sub>''this WikiAward was given to {{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>PAGENAME}} by <includeonly>~~</includeonly>~ on ~<includeonly>~~</includeonly>~~''</sub>
|}
*For work related to Buddhism
:{{tl|The Buddha Barnstar}}
{{The Buddha Barnstar}}

==Categories==
<categorytree>Tibet</categorytree>


==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 {{tl|WikiProject Tibetan Buddhism}} on the talk pages.
{{WikiProject Tibetan Buddhism|class=NA|category=no}}

=== 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 ====

{{Tibetan Buddhism}}
The compact (but expandable) "Tibetan Buddhism series" box {{tl|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:

{| class="wikitable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3"
|-
|+ '''Mulamadhyakakarika'''
|-
! Author
! Title
! Publisher
! Date
! Notes
|-
| Garfield, Jay L.
| ''The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way''<br>
| 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|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==
* {{cite web |url=http://www.thlib.org/reference/transliteration/phconverter.php |title=THL’s Online Tibetan Phonetics Converter|  author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->  |date= |website=[[Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library]] }} - A tool to convert [[Tibetan script|Tibetan]] or Wylie text into Roman phonetics.
*  {{cite web |url=http://www.thlib.org/reference/transliteration/phconverter.php |title=THL Tibetan to English Translation Tool|  author= Andrés Montano Pellegrini |date= |website=[[Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library]] }} - Online Tibetan-English Dictionary and translation tool. 
* {{cite web |url=http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/Main_Page |title=Rangjung Yeshe Wiki — Dharma Dictionary|  author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->  |date= |website=[[Rangjung Yeshe Wiki]] |publisher=[[Tsadra Foundation]] }}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.treasuryoflives.org/|title=Treasury of Lives: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Himalayan Religion |  author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->  |date= |website=[[Treasury of Lives]] |publisher=The Shelley &amp; Donald Rubin Foundation }} — Good, peer reviewed, biographies of past Himalayan religious masters, Buddhist and Bon as well as some background articles.
* {{cite web |url=http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/monier/ |title=Monier Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=2008 |website=Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries |publisher=Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies, Cologne University }} - Monier Monier-Williams's Sanskrit-English dictionary
* For Windows users who deal in devanagari and/or romanization on a regular basis, try [http://www.omkarananda-ashram.org/Sanskrit/itranslator2003.htm Itranslator]

== Tibetan links ==
*[http://www.tibet.net/ Official government website of the Central Tibetan Administration]
*[http://www.learntibetan.net/index.htm Tibetan language page]
*[http://studentsforafreetibet.org/index.php Official Website of Students for a Free Tibet]
*[http://www.tibet.com Office of Tibet - London] 
*[http://www.phayul.com Phayul.com]

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