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...
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. ...
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....
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...
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....
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...
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...
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....
༄།།ནང་བསྟན་གྲངས་འཛིན་དཔེ་ཚོགས་ལྟེ་གནས་ཀྱིས་འཛམ་གླིང་ཡོངས་ལ་ནང་པའི་གསུང་རབས་བོན་དང་བཅས་པ་ཤོག་གྲངས་ས་ཡ་༢༨༠༠ལྷག་བལྟ་ཀློག་ཕབ་ལེན་རིན་མེད་ངང་འབུལ་གྱི་ཡོད།།
དེས་ན་མི་རབས་ནས་མི་རབས་བར་ནང་བསྟན་ཆོས་ལུགས་ཀྱི་གསུང་རབས་གནས་ཐུབ་པར་ཡིད་ཆེས་དང་མོས་པ་ཡོད་ན།རྣམ་པ་ཚོས་དུས་ཆེན་འདི་དང་བསྟུན་༼BDRC༽ལ་དཔྱ་ཁྲལ་ཆག་ཡང་དང་རྩ་ཆག་གི་ལུགས་མཐུནགཞིར་བཟུང་ཞལ་འདེབས་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་གནང་རྒྱུར་དགོངས་འཇགས་འཚལ།།