14 Mar BDRC Announces the Release of OCR app for Tibetan
The Buddhist Digital Resource Center announces the release of a breakthrough Optical Character Recognition (OCR) app for Tibetan....
The Buddhist Digital Resource Center announces the release of a breakthrough Optical Character Recognition (OCR) app for Tibetan....
Scans of new woodblock prints of the Nyingma Gyubum, the Collected Nyingma Tantras, are now live on BDRC's digital library. ...
BDRC's most recent collaboration with the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives is the digital preservation of hundreds of never-before-published texts from their renowned Manuscripts Division. ...
BDRC is proud to announce an exciting project that will contribute a powerful new app and millions of pages of primary materials to Tibetan Studies. This cutting-edge, cross-platform desktop tool for optical character recognition (OCR) of Tibetan scripts will ‘unlock’ the writing embedded in scans...
Do you wonder about the sources of the texts BDRC digitizes and puts online? Although we seek out undocumented texts ourselves, we also aim to amplify manuscripts that local partners have recovered, edited, and published. Here are two inspiring examples of community preservation work that...
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....
The Dakinis' Great Dharma Treasury, or མཁའ་འགྲོའི་ཆོས་མཛོད་ཆེན་མོ། as this small library of 53 volumes of texts by and about Tibetan women is known, showcases the overlooked brilliance of Buddhist female masters from Tibet through the centuries. ...
This rare manuscript copy of Bod Khepa’s Collected Works showcases the kind of work that BDRC does, seeking and making available these rare collections from masters whose works would be lost or inaccessible otherwise....