Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia visiting with Sikkimese texts during a research trip to Fisher Library.

Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia visiting with Sikkimese texts during research trip to UofT’s Fisher Library.

Over an outdoor flame, Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia (Hidden Stories) makes traditional carbon-black ink from burnt Himalayan grain and other traditional ingredients.

Over an outdoor flame, Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia (Hidden Stories) makes traditional carbon-black ink from burnt Himalayan grain and other traditional ingredients

Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia visiting with Tibetan Buddhist texts. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, UofT.

Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia examining paper in a Tibetan Buddhist manuscript in the MacDonald Collection. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, UofT.

Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia and Za Thinley Gyatso visiting with Tibetan Buddhist manuscripts in the Lhalungpa Collection, UofT’s East Asian Library. Gyatso completed description work for the hundreds of books in the collection.