The manuscripts of the Lanten in Laos enable shamans and priests to engage Daoist deities in the rituals to reproduce the Lanten socio-cosmological order. A distinctive qualit…
This project aims to preserve a corpus manuscripts of unique cultural value in Lanten society. Written in Classical Chinese supplemented with the Lanten language, these manusc…
This project, which involves the documentation of endangered traditional music used in the ceremonies of seven distinct ethnic minority communities, directly supports the U.S.…
This project, which focuses on the That Pathum (Makmo) stupa, continues work begun under previous Ambassadors Fund grants and directly supports the Embassy’s efforts to portra…
This project aims to fund large-scale digitization of manuscripts in maritime and mainland South-East Asia, and to make these available in an open-access online archive.
