གསར་འགྱུར།

ཚོགས་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ་གསར་ཤོས།

We made a major new addition to BDRC's geo-data for Buddhist sites in the Inner Asian world, thanks to generous data sharing by the "Documentation of Mongolian Monasteries" project and Dr. Isabelle Charleux. Over time these new sites will become even more dynamic as we begin to link them with texts written or printed at these sites.

Түдэв гүний хүрээ / Tudev gunii khuree

BDRC is pleased to announce that we have successfully added Tibetan Collation Rules to the CLDR. This step will bring Tibetan closer to being fully supported on websites and smartphones, and will improve the digital experience of Tibetans worldwide. This effort is part of BDRC's practice of contributing back to the Buddhist communities in Asia who produced the precious texts we bring online. This post will also dive into the historical origins of the rules we have implemented.

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Dr. Petra Kieffer-Pülz is a scholar of Pali literature who has been studying a monastic boundary dispute in Sri Lanka for the past five years. Texts made available by BUDA allowed Dr. Kieffer-Pülz to study previously unsurfaced material that shed new light on this dispute.

1024px-100_King_of_Burma_Inviting_the_Ramañña_Monks_to_get_Ordination_in_Sri_Lanka_(20449159561)

One of our priorities in developing BUDA was to create a great reading room experience for our users, many of whom are practitioners, researchers and translators who spend a great deal of time poring over these Buddhist materials.

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Our new website includes improvements to both the user interface and the architecture of the data. In this post we will introduce one of the changes to our data architecture and how this change will affect your searches.

washington-dc-jewal-mazique-ie-jewel-cataloging-in-the-library-of-congress

From A Prayer for Translators composed by Kyabje Trulzhik Rinpoche in 2005 and translated by Adam Pearcey. The translator, as recognized by South Asian and Tibetan cultures, is the one who sees, and one who allows the world to see. In BDRC's mission to preserve...

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Search Me!

Search is how most of our users interact with our library and database. As fast and intuitive as the search on BUDA is, we continue to refine and improve it in order to offer our users the most seamless search experience.  So we are happy to share the news that BUDA's search has been updated with three useful new features, developed based on feedback from our users.

Search-by-date-results

A major update to BDRC's search engine was released in 2014 and today we are releasing a second major improvement to the search engine.

BUDA search box

BUDA Demo Now Online

BDRC's Executive Director Dr. Jann Ronis and technical lead Élie Roux present an online demo of our new website and library platform, the Buddhist Digital Archives (BUDA), providing tips and tricks for the new user. 

BUDA: Buddhist Digital Archives

For close to 25 years now, a leading resource in Tibetan Studies has been Dan Martin's Tibetan Histories: A Bibliography of Tibetan-Language Historical Works, Serindia Publications (London 1997). BDRC is proud to be able to now make this resource available for download.

Tibetan Histories by Dan Martin

With generous support from Khyentse Foundation, the Buddhist Digital Resource Center invites applications for a fellowship in Southeast Asian manuscripts, to begin 1 January 2021.

Pali manuscript in Burmese script

Treasures from Cambodia

During 20 years of seeking out and preserving Buddhist texts, BDRC has found some remarkable collections. The monastic library of Vatt Phum Thmei in Cambodia is one such collection. The roughly 2,500 bundles of palm-leaf manuscripts are a treasure trove of thousands of years of Cambodian cultural knowledge.

A zoomed in look at the "Code of Old Sayings"

With libraries and archives closed around the world, the value of BDRC's online platform has gained new significance as the most comprehensive collection of Buddhist writings in classical Asian languages.

manuscript of the Mañjuśrīnāmasaṃgīti digitized in Kathmandu under the auspices of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library

ཕྱི་ལོ་༢༠༡༦ ནས་བཟུང་། ནང་བསྟན་དཔེ་ཚོགས་ལྟེ་གནས་ཀྱིས་ཏ་ལའི་ལོ་མའི་ཐེབས་རྩ་ཁང་དང་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་གྱིས་ཁོང་ཚོས་འཚོལ་བསྡུ་བྱས་པའི་འཇིག་ཉེན་ཆེ་བའི་ཏ་ལའི་ལོ་བྲིས་མའི་ནང་བསྟན་དཔེ་ཆ་རྣམས་ཉར་སྲུང་བྱས་དང་བྱེད་མུས་སུ་མཆིས།

Budhist Digital Resource Center tests new digitization equipment

Today we're featuring new acquisitions of texts from the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. BDRC founder Gene Smith championed Kagyu literary heritage and had fruitful relations with many Kagyu lamas.

Some of Gene's personal notebooks about Kagyu history and literature

Discovering Inner Asian Monasteries

We made a major new addition to BDRC's geo-data for Buddhist sites in the Inner Asian world, thanks to generous data sharing by the "Documentation of Mongolian Monasteries" project and Dr. Isabelle Charleux. Over time these new sites will become even more dynamic as we begin to link them with texts written or printed at these sites.

Түдэв гүний хүрээ / Tudev gunii khuree

Sorting Out Tibetan Alphabetical Order

BDRC is pleased to announce that we have successfully added Tibetan Collation Rules to the CLDR. This step will bring Tibetan closer to being fully supported on websites and smartphones, and will improve the digital experience of Tibetans worldwide. This effort is part of BDRC's practice of contributing back to the Buddhist communities in Asia who produced the precious texts we bring online. This post will also dive into the historical origins of the rules we have implemented.

What the Buddhist Digital Archives Offers Scholars: A Case Study in Pali Literature

Dr. Petra Kieffer-Pülz is a scholar of Pali literature who has been studying a monastic boundary dispute in Sri Lanka for the past five years. Texts made available by BUDA allowed Dr. Kieffer-Pülz to study previously unsurfaced material that shed new light on this dispute.

Tips & Tricks for Your BUDA Search

One of our priorities in developing BUDA was to create a great reading room experience for our users, many of whom are practitioners, researchers and translators who spend a great deal of time poring over these Buddhist materials.

Illuminating BUDA: How to Improve Your Searches

Our new website includes improvements to both the user interface and the architecture of the data. In this post we will introduce one of the changes to our data architecture and how this change will affect your searches.

Lotsawa: The Eyes of the World

From A Prayer for Translators composed by Kyabje Trulzhik Rinpoche in 2005 and translated by Adam Pearcey. The translator, as recognized by South Asian and Tibetan cultures, is the one who sees, and one who allows the world to see. In BDRC's mission to preserve...

Search Me!

Search is how most of our users interact with our library and database. As fast and intuitive as the search on BUDA is, we continue to refine and improve it in order to offer our users the most seamless search experience.  So we are happy to share the news that BUDA's search has been updated with three useful new features, developed based on feedback from our users.

Tibetan Search Enhancements: Part 2

A major update to BDRC's search engine was released in 2014 and today we are releasing a second major improvement to the search engine.

BUDA search box

BUDA Demo Now Online

BDRC's Executive Director Dr. Jann Ronis and technical lead Élie Roux present an online demo of our new website and library platform, the Buddhist Digital Archives (BUDA), providing tips and tricks for the new user. 

BUDA: Buddhist Digital Archives

Job Posting: BDRC Seeks Fellow in Southeast Asian Manuscripts

With generous support from Khyentse Foundation, the Buddhist Digital Resource Center invites applications for a fellowship in Southeast Asian manuscripts, to begin 1 January 2021.

Pali manuscript in Burmese script

The BUDA Network: Creating a Web of Buddhist Resources

With libraries and archives closed around the world, the value of BDRC's online platform has gained new significance as the most comprehensive collection of Buddhist writings in classical Asian languages.

manuscript of the Mañjuśrīnāmasaṃgīti digitized in Kathmandu under the auspices of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library

ཐའེ་ལན་དུ་རྟེན་གཞི་བྱས་པའི་ནང་བསྟན་དཔེ་ཚོགས་ལྟེ་གནས།

ཕྱི་ལོ་༢༠༡༦ ནས་བཟུང་། ནང་བསྟན་དཔེ་ཚོགས་ལྟེ་གནས་ཀྱིས་ཏ་ལའི་ལོ་མའི་ཐེབས་རྩ་ཁང་དང་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་གྱིས་ཁོང་ཚོས་འཚོལ་བསྡུ་བྱས་པའི་འཇིག་ཉེན་ཆེ་བའི་ཏ་ལའི་ལོ་བྲིས་མའི་ནང་བསྟན་དཔེ་ཆ་རྣམས་ཉར་སྲུང་བྱས་དང་བྱེད་མུས་སུ་མཆིས།

The Kagyu Tradition

Today we're featuring new acquisitions of texts from the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. BDRC founder Gene Smith championed Kagyu literary heritage and had fruitful relations with many Kagyu lamas.

Some of Gene's personal notebooks about Kagyu history and literature

Discovering Inner Asian Monasteries

We made a major new addition to BDRC's geo-data for Buddhist sites in the Inner Asian world, thanks to generous data sharing by the "Documentation of Mongolian Monasteries" project and Dr. Isabelle Charleux. Over time these new sites will become even more dynamic as we begin to link them with texts written or printed at these sites.

Түдэв гүний хүрээ / Tudev gunii khuree

Sorting Out Tibetan Alphabetical Order

BDRC is pleased to announce that we have successfully added Tibetan Collation Rules to the CLDR. This step will bring Tibetan closer to being fully supported on websites and smartphones, and will improve the digital experience of Tibetans worldwide. This effort is part of BDRC's practice of contributing back to the Buddhist communities in Asia who produced the precious texts we bring online. This post will also dive into the historical origins of the rules we have implemented.

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What the Buddhist Digital Archives Offers Scholars: A Case Study in Pali Literature

Dr. Petra Kieffer-Pülz is a scholar of Pali literature who has been studying a monastic boundary dispute in Sri Lanka for the past five years. Texts made available by BUDA allowed Dr. Kieffer-Pülz to study previously unsurfaced material that shed new light on this dispute.

1024px-100_King_of_Burma_Inviting_the_Ramañña_Monks_to_get_Ordination_in_Sri_Lanka_(20449159561)

Tips & Tricks for Your BUDA Search

One of our priorities in developing BUDA was to create a great reading room experience for our users, many of whom are practitioners, researchers and translators who spend a great deal of time poring over these Buddhist materials.

Screen Shot 2021-09-29 at 12.33.05 PM

Illuminating BUDA: How to Improve Your Searches

Our new website includes improvements to both the user interface and the architecture of the data. In this post we will introduce one of the changes to our data architecture and how this change will affect your searches.

washington-dc-jewal-mazique-ie-jewel-cataloging-in-the-library-of-congress

Lotsawa: The Eyes of the World

From A Prayer for Translators composed by Kyabje Trulzhik Rinpoche in 2005 and translated by Adam Pearcey. The translator, as recognized by South Asian and Tibetan cultures, is the one who sees, and one who allows the world to see. In BDRC's mission to preserve...

Thomni-sambhota-thangka-72-for-web-1

Search Me!

Search is how most of our users interact with our library and database. As fast and intuitive as the search on BUDA is, we continue to refine and improve it in order to offer our users the most seamless search experience.  So we are happy to share the news that BUDA's search has been updated with three useful new features, developed based on feedback from our users.

Search-by-date-results

Tibetan Search Enhancements: Part 2

A major update to BDRC's search engine was released in 2014 and today we are releasing a second major improvement to the search engine.

BUDA search box

BUDA Demo Now Online

BDRC's Executive Director Dr. Jann Ronis and technical lead Élie Roux present an online demo of our new website and library platform, the Buddhist Digital Archives (BUDA), providing tips and tricks for the new user. 

BUDA: Buddhist Digital Archives

Job Posting: BDRC Seeks Fellow in Southeast Asian Manuscripts

With generous support from Khyentse Foundation, the Buddhist Digital Resource Center invites applications for a fellowship in Southeast Asian manuscripts, to begin 1 January 2021.

Pali manuscript in Burmese script

The BUDA Network: Creating a Web of Buddhist Resources

With libraries and archives closed around the world, the value of BDRC's online platform has gained new significance as the most comprehensive collection of Buddhist writings in classical Asian languages.

manuscript of the Mañjuśrīnāmasaṃgīti digitized in Kathmandu under the auspices of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library

ཐའེ་ལན་དུ་རྟེན་གཞི་བྱས་པའི་ནང་བསྟན་དཔེ་ཚོགས་ལྟེ་གནས།

ཕྱི་ལོ་༢༠༡༦ ནས་བཟུང་། ནང་བསྟན་དཔེ་ཚོགས་ལྟེ་གནས་ཀྱིས་ཏ་ལའི་ལོ་མའི་ཐེབས་རྩ་ཁང་དང་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་གྱིས་ཁོང་ཚོས་འཚོལ་བསྡུ་བྱས་པའི་འཇིག་ཉེན་ཆེ་བའི་ཏ་ལའི་ལོ་བྲིས་མའི་ནང་བསྟན་དཔེ་ཆ་རྣམས་ཉར་སྲུང་བྱས་དང་བྱེད་མུས་སུ་མཆིས།

Budhist Digital Resource Center tests new digitization equipment

The Kagyu Tradition

Today we're featuring new acquisitions of texts from the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. BDRC founder Gene Smith championed Kagyu literary heritage and had fruitful relations with many Kagyu lamas.

Some of Gene's personal notebooks about Kagyu history and literature