The BDRC archive has doubled the number of contemporary women writers and figures represented; an important step towards equality and full representation of Tibetan women in the global knowledge commons....
BDRC is pleased to announce three valuable additions to the archive which will be of enormous interest to students of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies. These have been generously provided by Jonathan Silk, Professor of Buddhist Studies at Leiden University, with an introduction to each. They...
BDRC recently published online the Matho Fragments, an extremely rare collection of ancient manuscripts—these are in fact the oldest manuscripts ever discovered in Ladakh. The Matho fragments were interred in a stupa dating from the 12th century....
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...
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....