Ten years ago, we started a website called himalayanart.org and that is a Foundation on 17th
Street. We have three fulltime people. It’s been in existence for 10 years and we have somewhere
between 30 and 40 thousand pieces of art on the website most of them with descriptions. We
have the collections from The Met and Natural History and Sackler and Boston and Philadelphia
Fine Arts Collections on the web and many, many museums. And we are in the process of
working with museums to give us images electronically for us to put on. And a lot of the images
that are run we have scholars that work on dating them, describing them and you might want to
look at that website because I think it’s very important. You might even want to bring it up on
your screen if you have. That’s one we do. The other one we have, that’s in my office on 17
West 17.
The other one we do there is a website that we have probably provide, pay up the funding for
Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center headed by Jean Smith and we provide free rent and services
for him for many, many years. He has 10 fulltime people working with him and he is the most
important Buddhist scholar in the world with literature manuscripts, and he has this website that
has all of these manuscripts on a website so that they could be looked at in the monasteries and
the schools and you can do it everywhere.
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