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Alison Melnick from the Tibetan Renaissance Seminar
Week 2 (January 29); Annotated Thematic Bibliography-Blue Annals
Status of Assignment: FINAL
View Here Blue Annals Bibliography
Comments: This is the beginning of an annotated bibliography, although it could certainly use more collaborative attention in the future. It was also my first attempt at both annotated bibs. and large-scale wiki use. There is no subject overview because that part of the assignment was created after the bibliography itself. Therefore, I will include a subject overview later. The bibliography is also included in the 'bibliographies' wiki for the Blue Annals, along with a rough draft by Chris Bell
Week 3 (February 5); Event Analysis- 958 Rinchen Zangpo and 1060 Ralotsawa
Status: FINAL
View Here: go to 
THDL Timeline Database
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Week 4 (February 12); Timeline of a Chapter- Frag 14
Status: Final
View Here: go to THDL Timeline Database
Comments: I couldn't really tell where there might be some kind of analysis component to this assignment-- besides coming up with a critical edition of dates based on non-Blue Annals texts or finding some way to analyze the importance of the dates included as a whole.
Week 5 (February 19); Thematic Markup in Tibetan- Frag 14
status: FINAL
View Here: CH 14 BA Tibetan
Comments: I only did the first section of this Chapter. My Tibetan is not good enough yet that I can read very quickly.
Week 6 (February 26); Thematic Markup in English- Frag 14
Status:FINAL
View Here CH 14 BA.doc
Comments: View Analysis for Both Weeks 5 and 6 Here: Analysis for English and Tibetan Markup, Ch 14
Week 7 (March 12); Ref. Analysis of a Chapter- Frag 12
Status: FINAL
View Here: Reference Analysis of Chapter 12
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Week 8 (March 19); Summary of a Blue Annals Chapter-Chapter 9
Status: FINAL
View Here: Chapter 9
Comments: I switched to Ch. 9 from Ch. 8 based on the note in the wiki for this week: "In fact chapter 9 is primarily concerned with Khyungpo Neljor (khyung po rnal ‘byor), who claimed to be transmitting traditions obtained from Niguma, a shadowy figured described as the sister or consort of the famous Indian siddha, Nāropa. These lineages came to form the basis for the so-called Shangpa (shangs pa) subset of the Kagyü traditions. Although referred to in the title, Kodrakpa is the subject only of the first few" I added my analysis and ideas followed by {AM}. I also corrected many spelling and grammatical errors from the previous 2 authors.
Week 9 (date); Monastery Essays- Tsurphu, Karma dgon, Daklagampo
Status: FINAL
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Week 10 (date); Annotated Bibliography- Dakinis
Status: Final
View Here Dakini Bib
Comments: This was an extremely interesting project to start, and I would like to continue exploring the subject matter. Although I was working on an annotated bibliography, did not really have the time to get too immersed in the material, it was more a process of locating sources and understanding what they are generally about. Please note that the above is also located in the Bibliographies Wiki, but I had a lot of trouble figuring out how to link that to this page. If we could go over that, I would appreciate it. Please note that this is going to be the case for many other assignments listed here.
Week 11 (date); Text Analysis: Maṇi Kambum
Status: FINAL
View Here: Maṇi Kambum
Comments: I probably learned more from this project than any other this semester. Also I am becoming more and more preoccupied with terma and its origins. This was in collaboration with Chris Bell, we had a very good collaboration experience, division of labor and multiple meetings about what we'd found proved to be very fruitful.
Week 12 (date); Place Essay-Kham
Status: FINAL
View Here Kham Place Essay
Week 13 (date); Concept Encyclopedia Analysis- Karmapa (located in the Kham Place Essay)
Status: FINAL
View Here: Karmapa Concept Encyclopedia Essay
Comments: I tried to do more analysis of the Blue Annals Karmapa entries.
Week 14 (date); Gazeteer- Nartang, Dakpo, Chimpu, Dartsedo
Status: FINAL
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