Image of amatl/ ficus fibre of a Techialoyan Codex (1690-1720) taken at UofT’s Yip Lab with ZEISS Axio Z1 optical microscope, 40x magnification (Axoloapan Xoloctlan, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library).

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.

Jim Canary (Head Cons., Indiana U.) and Maia Balint (Conservator, UofT Fisher Library) discussing care of some Tibetan paper manuscripts at UofT Fisher Library.

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

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

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

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.

Bhutia visiting with a Tibetan prayer book with painted deities (ROM 957X244)