Oxford University Exploration Club

This Oxford University expedition documented musical culture of the Tibetan Himalaya in 2005. The team made the first recordings of folk music in the Porong region and of liturgical ritual amongst the Bodong-pa school of Buddhism

Four team members spent two months working with folk musicians, monks, academics from both Lhasa and Oxford, a guide and translator, a driver, and a number of local informants.

We are pleased to report a total of more than two-hundred folk songs and over fifty-five hours of monastic chant.

All recording, documentation, and transcripts are available online at the Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library, and are archived at the British Library and libraries in Lhasa and Oxford.