The Treasury of Lives annotates portraits of historical people. We currently feature paintings and sculpture primarily from the collection of the Rubin Museum of Art. The interactive images allow users to identify figures and click through to their biographies.
The Treasury of Lives annotates photographs of historical people. We feature photographs from textual and internet sources. The interactive images allow users to identify figures and click through to the biographies.
The TBRC RID number refers to the unique ID assigned by the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC.org) to each historical figure in their database of Tibetan literature.