#  Resources 

 



  [### Western Himalaya Archive Vienna

 ](https://whav.aussereurop.univie.ac.at/) Visual resources that include precious images photodocumenting western HImalayan Buddhist sites. It also includes photo documentation of a lot of Buddhist sites elsewhere. (credit: Prof. Deborah Klimberg-Salter) 

 

 

   [### National Digital Library of India

 ](https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/) a number of publications on Indian epigraphy ( such as South Indian Inscriptions ) are digitized and available for free access 

 

 

   [### Kalasampada: Digital Library-Resources of Indian Cultural Heritage

 ](http://ignca.gov.in/online-digital-resources/) A digital library project by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Government of India includes digital image collections, digitized books and catalogues 

 

 

   [### Digital Photo Archive AIIS-Center for Art &amp;Archaeology 

 ](http://dsal.uchicago.edu/images/aiis/) Black and white photographs of monuments and images documented by the Center for Art &amp;Archaeology and scholars in the field of South Asian art history under the auspice and support of the American Institute of Indian Studies Read more about the Center for... 

 

 

   [### Center for Art &amp; Archaeology (AIIS)- digital image collection- Museums

 ](https://vmis.in/ArchiveCategories/collection_by_type/2) link to the site's page containing galleries of digital images from various museum collections ( including ACSAA digital images) 

 

 

   [### Center for Art and Archaeology-AIIS-digital image collections- Monuments

 ](https://vmis.in/ArchiveCategories/collection_by_type/1) The link to Special Collections- it includes ACSAA digital images of monuments ( earlier ACSAA slide projects digitized) 

 

 

   [### The Tibetan &amp; Himalayan Library

 ](http://www.thlib.org) The site provides many useful resources for studying and understanding Tibetan and Himalayan material. THL’s “Online Tibetan Phonetics Converter” available under “Reference” section is useful for reading Tibetan text written in Unicode or Wylie. http:/... 

 

 

   [### Christian Luczanits Visual Archive of Western Himalayan Sites &amp; Indian Buddhist sites

 ](http://www.luczanits.net/sites.html) An amazing collection of digital images from far-flung sites of Western Himalayas, and an early Buddhist site in Karnataka 

 

 

   [### Huntington Archive

 ](http://dsal.uchicago.edu/huntington/) A massive, searchable digital database and image collection of South Asian and Buddhist art along with online exhibitions and educational charts 

 

 

   [### Himalayan Art Resources

 ](http://www.himalayanart.org) A great search engine with access to thousands of visual materials from multiple collections