01 Dec Women's Works in the BDRC Archive

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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. ...

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30 Aug The Collected Works of Bod Khepa: The "Lost" Writings of One of Tibet's Greatest Scholars of Poetry and Medicine

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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....

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29 Mar What the Buddhist Digital Archives Offers Scholars: A Case Study in Pali Literature

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Dr. Petra Kieffer-Pülz is a scholar of Pali literature who has been studying a monastic boundary dispute in Sri Lanka for the past five years. Texts made available by BUDA allowed Dr. Kieffer-Pülz to study previously unsurfaced material that shed new light on this dispute....

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23 Dec Dharma Jewels Online: The BDRC Collections

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Our library platform, the Buddhist Digital Archives, is a vast ocean of Dharma texts. Please enjoy browsing a selection of our collections on BUDA. These collections are groups of texts that are part of the same preservation project, the same library, or come from a...

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21 Dec Dan Martin's Tibetan Histories

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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....

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30 Sep Treasures from Cambodia

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The monastic library of Vatt Phum Thmei in Cambodia holds a remarkable collection of Buddhist texts. Digitized by BDRC, the roughly 2,500 bundles of palm-leaf manuscripts are a treasure trove of thousands of years of Cambodian cultural knowledge. ...

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28 Feb Tibetan Medical & Astrological Literature

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Following Gene’s founding vision, BDRC doesn’t solely focus on the preservation of strictly religious texts, but rather seeks out texts that reflect the full richness of Buddhist culture— including, for example, Medical and Astrological works in the Tibetan language....

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12 Feb The Gilt Manuscripts of the Fragile Palm Leaves Collection

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The Fragile Palm Leaves collection includes over one hundred Kammavācā manuscripts, dating from the later 18th century through the early 20th century. ...

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26 Apr Announcing the Sanskrit and Chinese Buddhist Library Network

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Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC) is pleased to announce the development of the Sanskrit and Chinese Buddhist Library Network. ...

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23 Apr The Hunt for the Ragya Kangyur

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In collaboration with monks from Ragya Monastery in eastern Tibet, TBRC has digitally preserved an extremely rare woodblock printing of the Tibetan Buddhist canon: the Ragya Kangyur....

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