The Himalayan Art Resources (HAR) website is a virtual museum of Himalayan and Tibetan art, cataloging and exhibiting images of paintings, sculptures, textiles, ritual objects, murals, and other art from museums, universities and private collections throughout the world."Who hijacked Himalayan art? Or any art, for that matter?". Tricycle, Aug 06, 2010
History Himalayan Art Resources started out as a digital library known as the Tibet Art Project. The website was created with funding from the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation in 1997, as an education and research database of Himalayan Art."Rubin Foundation awards $777,000 in grants to organizations aligned with art and social justice" . Lion's Roar, by Lilly Greenblatt| February 6, 2018 Since 1998, Jeff Watt, a Himalayan and Tibetan art scholar, has been the director and chief Curator of the HAR website."Himalayan Buddhism" . Tribune India, May 8, 2016,"Collecting Guide: Buddhist sculpture". Christie's, access date December 3, 2016.
By 2013, the website included about 45,000 images from public and private collections;Stefan Larsson. Crazy for Wisdom: The Making of a Mad Yogin in Fifteenth-Century Tibet. BRILL; 14 September 2012. . p. 293–. this number of images more than doubled by 2018, and included images from about 1000 collections and repositories."On Bells, Whistles, Hats, and Number Sets: An Interview with Jeff Watt on Buddhist Iconography and Himalayan Art". By Anne Wisman, Buddhistdoor Global, 2018-03-23
Scholars of Himalayan art make regular use of the web site during their research. The site also makes available hundreds of resources for educational and interpretation purposes. These include curriculum, essays, glossaries, and organizational outlines to help users navigate the material on the site.
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