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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: late Oct 1999
Vol. 6, No. 97

27 Oct 1999

Treasures of Tibetan Art in the Collection of the Newark Museum
Going Out Guide, New Jersey Online, USA
Supplied note: "[About the forthcoming exhibition] 'From the Sacred Realm: Treasures of Tibetan Art in the Collection of the Newark Museum,' which opens Friday [29 Oct 99] and runs through Jan. 20 [2000], [and which] is the museum's first pull-out-the-stops display of silver and gold sculpture and jewelry, paintings, textiles, elaborately embroidered clothing and cunningly worked ritual objects from one of its world-class specialties. Organized as part of the museum's 90th anniversary celebrations, the exhibit is the largest show of Tibetan art and artifacts ever to be mounted in the United States."
URL http://www.nj.com/spotlight/newarkmuseum
Link suggested by: Robert Duffy (rduffy@mail.nj.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

27 Oct 1999

Inner Asia Journal
The White Horse Press, Scotland/ Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, Cambridge University, UK
Supplied note: "A new [so far only 1(1) issue was published - ed.] international journal seeking to strengthen understanding of the history, politics, economies and cultures of Inner Asia. Its concern is to be interdisciplinary and inclusive, the better to reflect diverse, indigenous and critical understandings. [...] 'Inner Asia' is distinct from the few existing journals dealing with regional studies of Central / Inner Asia and Mongolia, in focusing on fundamental issues, contemporary social transformations and theoretically-informed attempts to understand them."
Site contents: Contents of past issues [+ abstracts]; Instructions for authors; Editorial team; Subscription information.
[Details of a paper-based publication - ed.]
URL http://www.erica.demon.co.uk/IA.html
Link suggested by: Andrew Johnson (aj@erica.demon.co.uk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

26 Oct 1999

Australian Religion and Beliefs on the Internet
National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Supplied note: "Described as 'a selective list of Australian religious and belief Internet sites' it covers a wide range of sites relating to Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism and other beliefs. The subject listing of sites includes Aboriginal Spirituality, Bookshops and Publications, Education, Media, Politics and Youth and Student Organisations."
Site contents: About this Guide; General Australian Religious Organisations and Sites; Subject Listing of Sites; Electronic Journals; Discussion Lists / Chat Channels; Libraries and Archives; Australian Search Engines; Additional sources of Information.
URL http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/religion.htmll
Link suggested by: Andrew Gosling (agosling@nla.gov.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

26 Oct 1999

Philippines: Dolphins, Turtles and Dynamite
www.geocities.com, USA?
Supplied note: "[A site about] the continuing practice of fishing by the use of dynamite, which is killing dolphins, turtles, and other creatures, and harming the marine environment. The main area where this is still occurring is in the San Bernadino Strait off the island of Samar in the Philippines."
Site contents: The San Bernadino Strait: Importance for migrating marine animals; Dolphins and dynamite; Turtles the biggest losers; Where the dynamite is made; 'The Inquirer' (Report and Interviews); Sending a Protest from your desktop; How the author discovered the problem; Comprehensive Environmental Links; Dolphin Links; Turtle Links
[An environmental activism page - ed.]
URL http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Jungle/5835/dolphins.html
Link suggested by: Dr. Romeo Arabone (arabone@hotmail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide/News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

25 Oct 1999

Christianity in Bangladesh
members.tripod.com, Canada
Supplied note: "A [brief note on] history of Christianity (both Catholicism and Protestantism) in Bangladesh."
[A page maintained as a part of the Jerome D'Costa Family website. The site also gives some insight into 100 years of history of a Bengali family in Bangladesh and, later, in North America. In short, a site where tremendous potential of the popular-access Internet is put to a regular, everyday use - ed.]
URL http://members.tripod.com/DCOSTA_J_FAMILY/christianity_in_bangladesh.htm
Link suggested by: Jerome D'Costa (j_dcosta@hotmail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

25 Oct 1999

World Chinese Opera
www.roc.simplenet.com, Taiwan
Site contents: Activities (Hawaii Club, Masks, Peking Opera Information, Peking Opera Events, Peking Opera and Politics, Cheongsam, Peking Opera Pronounciation, Elements of Chinese Music, Bibliography of Chinese Theatre); Synopses of 11 operas; Theory; Other Pages Related to Peking Opera.
[A very slow server - ed.]
URL http://www.roc.simplenet.com/poen.htm
Link suggested by: Tony Wang (kontz@tpts5.seed.net.tw)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

25 Oct 1999

National Library of Australia: 'Collecting China'
Asian Collections, National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Supplied note: "Diana Giese's article 'Collecting China' published in the 'National Library of Australia News', Oct 1999 is now also available at [the URL below] The article is about the Library's extensive Chinese language research collection."
URL http://www.nla.gov.au/asian/pub/dgiese.html
Link suggested by: Andrew Gosling (agosling@nla.gov.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

25 Oct 1999

Daily and Hourly News from Lebanon
Lebanon Links Interactive, USA
Site contents: English language Lebanese (reposted from 'The Daily Star') and World news.
URL http://www.lebanonlinks.com/news
Link suggested by: (info@lebanonlinks.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

24 Oct 1999

Vietnamese Language Homepage
Arizona State University, USA
Supplied note: "Vietnamese language program at Arizona State University, Vietnamese Advanced Summer Institute (VASI) in Hanoi, Group of Universities for the Advancement of Vietnamese Abroad (GUAVA), Vietnamese language textbooks."
URL http://www.public.asu.edu/~ickpl/
Link suggested by: Le Pham Thuy-Kim (kim.le@asu.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

23 Oct 1999

Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ), Jun 2000
Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan
Self-description: "Call for papers and panels ASCJ Summer 2000, deadline for paper and panel proposals is Dec 1, 1999. The year 2000 conference will be held in Tokyo [at the Sophia University Ichigaya Campus - ed.] on Saturday Jun 24th."
URL http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~kokusai/ascj01.htm
Link suggested by: Patricia Sippel (psippel@icu.ac.jp)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

22 Oct 1999

Hanquan Database of Ancient Texts (Gugong "Hanquan" gudian wenxian quanwen jiansuo ziliaoku)
Chen Yufu, Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Supplied note: "This widely known database is now available on-line, and use is free! The search interface is simple but efficient, you can perform Boolean searches (and/or), and within each textcorpus you can search single parts or the whole of it. The results deliver the characters within their context and references to the printed edition (volume, page, etc.). Contents: (1) Shisan jing (13 Classics; based on Ruan Yuan's edition, but without commentaries); (2) Xian-Qin zhuzi (Pre-Qin Philosophers; containing Baopuzi, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Liezi, Mozi, Yanzi Chunqiu, Guanzi, Shangjunshu, Shenzi, Hanfeizi, Sunzi, Wuzi, Yinwenzi, Lüshi chunqiu) ; (3) Quan Tang shi (based on the Zhonghua shuju edition in 25 vols); (4) Song Yuan xu'an; (5) Mingru xue'an; (6) Siku quanshu zongmu; (7) Zhuzi yulei; (8) Hong lou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber); (9) Baisha quanji (Complete works of Chen Xianzhang, 15th c.); (10) Zizhi tongjian; (11) Xu Zizhi tongjian; (12) Ershiwu shi (25 Histories). More texts will be added in the future."
URL http://210.69.170.100/s25/index.htm
Link suggested by: Hanno Lecher (lecher@gw.sino.uni-heidelberg.de)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

22 Oct 1999

Asia Online Project
Curriculum Corporation, Australia
Supplied note: "A government-funded project which provides online services and professional development to teachers who are including studies of Asia across the curriculum in Australian schools. Services include a discussion group, an online directory of Internet resources and an extensive online professional development tutorial on using the Internet to support the studies of Asia in schools. To subscribe to the discussion group, send your name, organisation and email address to: lan@curriculum.edu.au."
URL http://www.curriculum.edu.au/accessasia/network/
Link suggested by: Lan Wang (lan@curriculum.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

21 Oct 1999

Coup in Pakistan: Online Resources
Asia Society, USA
Supplied note: "This Special Report includes annotated links to [15] selected commentaries from the international press, a list of [nine] news sources providing extensive coverage of events as they unfold in Pakistan, and links to several [six] relevant organisations."
URL http://www.asiasource.org/news/at_mp_02.cfm?newsid=2641
Link suggested by: Nermeen Shaikh (nermeens@asiasoc.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

21 Oct 1999

Indonesia: Presidential Elections, Oct 1999
www.stratfor.com, USA
Self-description: "The Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) elected Abdurrahman Wahid president Oct. 20 over Megawati Sukarnoputri by a vote of 373 to 313. After Megawati's loss sparked clashes between her supporters and security forces in Jakarta, she and Wahid joined together to call for peace and stability. Megawati also urged people 'to accept the results of the election.'"
[Stratfor Profile of President Wahid is available at http://www.stratfor.com/asia/commentary/m9910202300.htm - ed.]
URL http://www.stratfor.com/asia/specialreports/special93.htm
Link suggested by: Bob Pyke Jr (repyke@akron.infi.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

21 Oct 1999

Pakistan Coup d'Etat: Doing Business With Gen.Musharraf
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, (Tele.Fax.No.44-4895235) on the above subject is now available at the Web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [URL below]."
[The author, B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai. - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/notes/note39.html
Link suggested by: B. Raman (corde@md3.vsnl.net.in)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

21 Oct 1999

Asian Business: Asia Pacific Management Forum
Orient Pacific Century, Asean
Supplied note: "The APMF, now five years old, provides background to those interested in business, management, marketing, economics, and culture in the Asia Pacific. Designed for international/Asian managers and professional and academic researchers. Two daily columns and five monthly columnists, news links and commentary and exclusive access to research abstract databases. Over 25 PDF format research articles reprinted from leading management journals rotated monthly plus a weekly review of free Asian management research articles on the Web. Search the over 1,000 pages, participate in the discussion board and surveys."
Site contents: Asian Business Portal; News; Resources; Articles and Abstracts; Researcher's Resources; Columnists; Networking; Search; Travel; About the APMF.
[Factual, rich, complex, and visually over-complicated resource - ed.]
URL http://www.apmforum.com/
Link suggested by: Rod Davies (rdavies@orientpacific.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

21 Oct 1999

Beyond the Silk Road: arts of Central Asia
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia
Supplied note: "The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia is currently [27 Aug 1999 ­ Jun 2000] holding an exhibition [...which] features textiles, rugs, costumes, antiquities, ceramics and metalwork from various parts of Central Asia. For further information see the museum's web site at [the URL below]. A full colour [paper] catalogue of the show is available.
For anyone who is interested in Central Asian textiles, the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra also has a good collection (a number of NGA pieces can be seen in the Powerhouse exhibition). The National Gallery of Australia's catalogue can be accessed via its website at http://www.nga.gov.au. The catalogue of central Asian works is currently in the process of being updated and should be much more comprehensive by the end of the year."

[The PHM web provides a very general description of the exhibition's contents. Melanie Eastburn (see below) is an Assistant Curator, Asian Art, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra - ed.]
URL http://www.phm.gov.au/exhibits/exib_new/silk/
Link suggested by: Melanie Eastburn (MelanieE@nga.gov.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

21 Oct 1999

Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), India
Economic and Political Weekly, Mumbai, India
Self-description: "A social science journal [est. 1966] featuring * research articles in economics, sociology, political; science and other emerging disciplines; * scholarly commentary on topical developments; * in-depth reports on people's struggles; * regular columns by eminent social scientists; * book reviews; * weekly statistical updates; * analytical review of company performances; * monthly review of the money market; plus a periodical series of special statistics on the economy and society. [...] EPW traces it roots to the Economic Weekly established by Sachin Choudhury in 1949. Since l966, the EPW has been published by the Sameeksha Trust. The pages of the EPW have featured some of the most relevant debates, particularly in development economics, sociology and socio-political issues."
Site contents: Current Issue [full text]; Previous Issue [full text]; Archives [abstracts only]; About the EPW; Sameeksha Trust; EPW Research Foundation; Subscription; Advertising; Announcements.
URL http://www.south-asian-initiative.org/epw/
Link suggested by: Sanjay Joshi (sanjay.joshi@nau.edu), forwarded by Steven Leibo (leibo@cnsvax.albany.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

21 Oct 1999

Sino-Japanese Studies
History Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Self-description: "A website has been created to compliment the SINOJPN-L listserve [SINOJPN-L@ukans.edu] and the journal Sino-Japanese Studies [paper publication est. 1988, 15 vols (so far) - ed.]. The website includes the table of contents for all past issues, tips on computing in Chinese and Japanese [inputting, displaying, and printing with Asian languages; fonts - ed], subscription information for the journal, etc. [...] If you have any suggestions for what you like to see added to the site or if you encounter any problems, please feel free to email me yurong@oregon.uoregon.edu."
[A valuable and factual resource, est. Oct 1999 - ed.]
URL http://www.lsweb.sscf.ucsb.edu/depts/hist/faculty/fogel/sjs/index.htm
Link suggested by: Daniel D. Baird (yurong@oregon.uoregon.edu), forwarded by Steven Leibo (leibo@cnsvax.albany.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

20 Oct 1999

SMU Cendana Pekanbaru (Cendana Senior High School)
SMU Cendana Pekanbaru, Rumbai, Pekanbaru, Indonesia
Self-description: "Founded in 1957, Cendana school is a private institution subsidized by P.T. Caltex Pacific Indonesia, an oil company operating in Riau Province. The school's mission is to provide high quality education for students, including the employees' children as well as those from the local community, at all levels beginning from kindergarten to high school."
URL http://www.cendana.org
Link suggested by: Harli (harli@isipol.ugm.ac.id)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Iinfo.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal

20 Oct 1999

Vietnam2000
VIETNAM2000, USA
Self-description: "VietnamY2K is forum for exchanging knowledge of Vietnam's current issues. Members' contribution are bricks to build a new Vietnam home for the year 2000 and beyond."
[The top page is a 139KB memory hogger. A monoligual site (VN) which crashes browsers - ed.]
URL http://www.homestead.com/vietnamy2k/index.html
Link suggested by: Xy Han (vietnam2000@usa.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

20 Oct 1999

Cold Regions Bibliography
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., USA
Self-description "This project['s] mission is to disseminate information on Antarctica and cold regions science and technology. A staff of six accomplishes this mission by maintaining and continually updating a database which is an accumulation of over 40 years of materials on the science and technology of the world's cold regions. It contains over 208,000 bibliographic records--many with abstracts--and is increasing by approximately 6,000 accessions annually."
[A keyword 'Siberia' retrieves 4103 records, 'Japan', 9381 records - ed.]
URL http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/scitech/coldregions/welcome.html
Link suggested by: Scout Report 15-Oct-1999 (scout-report@hypatia.cs.wisc.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

20 Oct 1999

New Archival Evidence on Taiwanese 'Nuclear Intentions', 1966-1976
The National Security Archive, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA
Self-description "During the late 1960s and mid-1970s, and late 1980s, the United States and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) actively discouraged Taiwan from acquiring critical technology for producing fissile materials. Recently declassified documents, unearthed by the National Security Archive, provide new and significant details about the earlier efforts to forestall a nuclear-armed Taiwan."
[An analysis by William Burr + facscimiles and abstracts of 30 documents - ed.]
URL http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB20/
Link suggested by: Scout Report 15-Oct-1999 (scout-report@hypatia.cs.wisc.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents/Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

19 Oct 1999

State Information Agency of Turkmenistan
www.tmpress.gov.tm, Turkmenistan
Supplied note: "Weekly news about Turkmenistan - policy, economy, culture, public life."
[A bilingual (EN,TM) site - ed.]
URL http://www.tmpress.gov.tm
Link suggested by: Batyr Karryev (batyr@telecom.tm), forwarded by John Schoeberlein (schoeber@fas.harvard.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

19 Oct 1999

Formosan Association for Public Affairs (FAPA)
www.fapa.org, USA?
Self-description: "Established in 1982 in Los Angeles, the Formosan Association for Public Affairs (FAPA) is a world-wide, Washington headquartered, non-profit organization that: (1.) To promote international support for the right of the people of Taiwan to establish an independent and democratic country, and to join the international community. (2.) To promote peace and security for Taiwan."
[A bilingual (EN,CN) site - ed.]
URL http://www.fapa.org
Link suggested by: Scott Simon (dokuhebi@hotmail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

19 Oct 1999

World United Formosans for Independence (WUFI)
www.wufi.org, USA?
Self-description: "WUFI [est. 1970] is dedicated to the establishment of a free, democratic and independent Republic of Taiwan in accordance with the principle of self-determination of peoples. We are committed to the fundamental freedoms and human rights and therefore repudiate all forms of foreign dominance and interventions that run counter to the interests of the 21-million Taiwanese people."
Site contents: About WUFI; About Taiwan; Taiwan History; FAQ's; Platform; Activism;  Archive:  chronology,  history;  Relevant struggle; WUFI HQ, Taiwan.
URL http://www.wufi.org/
Link suggested by: Scott Simon (dokuhebi@hotmail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

18 Oct 1999

Workshop on Central Asian Studies - Oct 1999
Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
Supplied note: "Fourth Annual Workshop on Central Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Oct 21-24, 1999, sponsored by the Central Asian Studies Program and the Center For Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia University of Wisconsin-Madison."
URL http://hum.lss.wisc.edu/ca/work99pr.htm
Link suggested by: Uli Schamiloglu (uschamil@facstaff.wisc.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

17 Oct 1999

Pakistan Online Magazine from Japan
Showa Tsusho Co., Ltd, Japan
Supplied note: "Nawa-e-Tokyo is the first online magazine in English/Urdu from Japan. [...] The main objective of the publication is to represent Pakistani community in Japan and to provide them with a source to keep in touch with the affairs in the country as well as means for utilising their time when away from duty, improving their knowledge and getting guided in Japan."
URL http://www.nawaetokyo.com
Link suggested by: Athar Siddiqui (editor@nawaetokyo.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

17 Oct 1999

Mt. Baldy Zen Center
Mt. Baldy Zen Center, CA, USA
Supplied note: "Mt. Baldy Zen Center was founded in 1972 by Joshu Sasaki Roshi and is the main training facility of Rinzai-ji. Joshu Roshi is now in his 93rd year and has been teaching in the United States for 37 years. The website offers information about the center, the activities, formal practice etc. Weekly updates for practitioners connected to the center inform about current events. The news section also contains on-line newsletters, texts of sutras, and a glossary of Japanese terms used at Mt. Baldy."
URL http://www.mbzc.org
Link suggested by: Dokuro R. Jaeckel (dokuro@mbzc.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

16 Oct 1999

Vietnam: a Journey of Healing, May 2000
Sage Colleges, NY, USA
Self-description: "A trip [commencing May 26, 2000] to Vietnam to study the American experience there and the world of Vietnam and the Vietnamese today. A two week trip is planned which will revolve largely around a trip from Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) to Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. [...] College credits may be available from either SUNY, Albany or the Sage Colleges."
URL http://www.sage.edu/html/RSC/programs/globcomm/division/activities/viettrip.html
Link suggested by: Leibo, Steven A. (leibo@cnsvax.albany.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

16 Oct 1999

Mystic Fire Video
Mystic Fire Video and Audio, USA
Supplied note: "Mystic Fire produces, publishes and distributes video and audio documents of H. H. the Dalai Lama's public teachings and talks. Titles include The Four Noble Truths (4 tape box set), In the Spirit of Manjushri, the Wisdom Teachings of Buddhism (4 tape box set), Lojong: Transforming the Mind (4 tape box set), Ethics for the New Millennium, etc. See the website for a complete listing."
[A commercial site - ed.]
URL http://www.mysticfire.com
Link suggested by: Carlo Altomare (carlo@echonyc.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

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