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How yaks and humans have lived in partnership for centuries

18 Nov 2015

̽»¨Ö±²¥Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge’s connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, Y is for Yak...

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Where to find a dragon in Cambridge

24 Jun 2015

̽»¨Ö±²¥Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, D is for...

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Animal, vegetable, mineral: the making of Buddhist texts

12 Jul 2014

̽»¨Ö±²¥wide-ranging objects on display at Buddha’s Word, an exhibition at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, show how Tibetan book makers used...

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̽»¨Ö±²¥Tibetan lama who wrote a world geography

14 Jun 2014

A study by Tibetan scholar Lobsang Yongdan revisits a long-ignored section of a historic text to reveal how Tibetans were engaging with western...

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