13 Jul 2001

Observatory of Tibet and Central Asia (OTAC)
Barcelona University, Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain).
Supplied note: "The Observatory of Tibet and Central Asia is a new Research Center recently established by Barcelona University to study the Civilizations of Tibet, Mongolia and Turkic Republics in Central Asia through research and teaching. We have focused on two main research lines: Nomad traditions, Tibetan Literature, and the biography and works of the XV c. Catalan traveller, Antoni de Montserrat (author of the first map of the Himalaya)."
Site contents: Objectives, Research, Activities, Links, Publications, Contact Us.
[The site, in Catalan and English, lists unannotated links to resources on: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Burma, Buryatia, China, Eastern Turkestan, India [planned page], Inner Mongolia, Kalmykia, Kashmir, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal [planned page], Pakistan, Russia [planned page], Tajikistan, Tibet, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Uzbekistan, Yellow Uighurs. Most of other parts of the "Observatory" await substantial development - ed.]
URL http://www.otac.ub.es
Link reported by: Josep Lluis Alay (alay@giga.sct.ub.es)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting