In recent weeks BDRC’s CTO, Mr. Élie Roux, played a major role in identifying and digitizing a Tibetan text with a remarkable history, a fragment of a 17th century Kangyur known as the Ablaikit Kangyur. ...
This month BDRC has acquired and posted online many documents that were housed at the Moravian Christian Mission in Leh, Ladakh. Thanks to Martin Vernier for digitizing selected texts and sharing them with BDRC for open access....
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 are Tibetan Buddhist manuscripts and fragments that had been interred in a set of stupas, religious earthen reliquaries,...
One of the most interesting genres of Tibetan Buddhist literature is the lamyig text, the travel guide, or more appropriately the pilgrimage guide (a subset of lamyig, called the neyig). These travel and pilgrimage guides are not only the most accessible and useful of texts...