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01 Apr Historical Documents from the Moravian Christian Mission in Ladakh added to the BDRC Archive

Posted at 16:09h in BUDA, Highlights from the archive by Catherine 0 Comments
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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....

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14 Mar BDRC Announces the Release of OCR app for Tibetan

Posted at 18:27h in BUDA, Highlights from the archive by Catherine 0 Comments
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The Buddhist Digital Resource Center announces the release of a breakthrough Optical Character Recognition (OCR) app for Tibetan....

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14 Mar It's a Miracle: Twin Preservation Projects Link Derge Printing House, Abhaya Fellowship, and BDRC

Posted at 13:45h in BUDA, Highlights from the archive by Catherine 0 Comments
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Scans of new woodblock prints of the Nyingma Gyubum, the Collected Nyingma Tantras, are now live on BDRC's digital library. ...

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28 Feb Introducing BUDA 2.0: Easier Searching, Improved Etext Experience

Posted at 09:17h in BUDA, Uncategorized by Nicolas Berger 0 Comments
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Announcing a major update to the Buddhist Digital Resource Center's digital library, BUDA! Explore the new beta version at beta.bdrc.io and share your feedback—it's essential to helping us improve. This update is based on your valuable input, and we're excited to share four key new...

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LTWA Library Director Mr. Sonam Topgyal displays a text from the Manuscripts Division.

27 Nov BDRC and the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives collaborate on Digital Preservation of Manuscripts

Posted at 20:35h in BUDA, Highlights from the archive, Uncategorized by Catherine 0 Comments
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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. ...

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10 Oct Tech Innovations to make the Tibetan Language a First-class Citizen in the Digital World

Posted at 15:49h in BUDA, Uncategorized by Catherine 1 Comment
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Read about a major milestone in technological innovation of the Tibetan language as the open source software suite LibreOffice's latest update supports an important feature of Tibetan: very long paragraphs....

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28 Aug Transforming Tibetan Text Digitization: BDRC's Groundbreaking OCR Project

Posted at 17:23h in BUDA, Highlights from the archive, Uncategorized by Catherine 0 Comments
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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...

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30 Jul From Discovery to Digitization: Amplifying Religious Text Publications in Tibet

Posted at 15:03h in BUDA, Highlights from the archive, Uncategorized by Catherine 1 Comment
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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...

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27 Jun How BDRC is Working with Local Library Partners to Expand Access to Buddhist Resources

Posted at 11:16h in BUDA, Uncategorized by Catherine 0 Comments
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BDRC is well known for digitization work with libraries and local partners, but did you know that our method of digital preservation involves much more than scanning? We also work alongside librarians to make improvements to library management and lending systems....

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21 Mar Featuring Women Writers in the BDRC Archive

Posted at 21:07h in BUDA, Highlights from the archive, Uncategorized by Catherine 0 Comments
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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....

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