13 Jan 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. ...
13 Jan Dan Martin's Tibetan Histories
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....
17 Dec Tibetan Treasures from the National Library of Mongolia
Even as BDRC builds on Gene’s legacy and expands its holdings from Tibetan into Sanskrit, Nepalese, Chinese, Khmer, Pali and Burmese, the heart of our ever-expanding library remains our Tibetan texts....
02 Nov An Introduction to BDRC's Librarians
Tibetan texts can be tricky to work with. Publication information is often missing or unstandardized, with some works lacking titles entirely while others have author information buried in the colophon. That’s why BDRC has expert librarians with the specialized knowledge needed to catalog these challenging...
08 Oct 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....
30 Sep 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...
26 Aug 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. ...