Glossary of Communities Collaboration Connectivity Commemoration
A space for definitions of terms related to conservation and heritage across time, language, culture, and place.
A space about conservation, for conservation.
A space of collaborative knowledge, housing words and definitions chosen and provided by people around the world.
Knowledge is situated.
Multiple definitions coexist for the same word. Through this project, we are working to expand our understanding of what conservation and heritage are, one word at a time.
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A collection of heritage words that embody the rich diversity and unique stories of cultures worldwide.
The word karma - used in Tibetan along with ‘jinley’ - and derived from the Sanskrit verb kṛ meaning ‘to make, do or create’. It describes the accumul...
‘Ku’ is the honorific word for ‘body’ in Tibetan and describes the image or likeness of deities, teachers and religious authorities who embody Buddha-...
Often translated from Tibetan as ‘blessing’, jinlap can describe the accumulated evidence of an object’s effective use and maintenance and/or its capa...