5-459: Himalayan Art Resources (HAR) website is a "virtual museum" of Himalayan and Tibetan art, cataloging and exhibiting images of art (painting, sculpture, textiles, ritual objects, murals, etc.) from museums, universities and private collections throughout the world. Himalayan Art Resources started out as a digital library known as the Tibet Art Project. The website was created with funding from
10-667: The Director and Chief Curator of the Himalayan Art Resources (HAR) website, a comprehensive on-line resource for Himalayan art and iconography that features thousands of artworks from Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, and Mongolia with a catalog of about 60,000 images written by Watt. From October 1999 until October 2007 Watt was also the founding Curator and leading scholar at the Rubin Museum of Art (RMA) in New York City which houses one of
15-629: The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation in 1997, as an education and research database of Himalayan Art. Since 1998, Jeff Watt , a Himalayan and Tibetan art scholar, has been the director and chief Curator of the HAR website. By 2013, the website included about 45,000 images from public and private collections; this number of images more than doubled by 2018, and included images from about 1000 collections and repositories. Scholars of Himalayan art make regular use of
20-505: The largest collections of Himalayan and Tibetan art in North America. Watt began studying Tibetan Buddhism in Seattle, Washington with Dezhung Rinpoche as a teenager and dropped out of school to take monk's vows at the age of seventeen in 1974. He gave back his vows in 1985 but continued his studies and also undertook traditional retreats. This biography of a Canadian academic is
25-439: 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. Jeff Watt Jeff Watt (born March 23, 1957) is a scholar and curator of Himalayan and Tibetan Art and well known translator of Tibetan texts. Since 1998 he has been
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