09 May BDRC is Using Artificial Intelligence to Generate Wisdom

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Given a large collection of 1.4 million scanned images of 5,000 text volumes and a catalog of 84,000 text titles, how can AI help us map the titles to their corresponding images? This article is an account of a successful project that used AI with...

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27 Apr Geshe Monlam: The Man behind the Dictionary

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Through a recent interview with Geshe Monlam, of the amazing Grand Monlam Tibetan Dictionary, we learned that the man behind this terrific work is a modern day Renaissance man. Read on. ...

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27 Apr Digital Dharma at the Library of Congress

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Our Executive Director Dr. Jann Ronis gave a book talk at the U.S. Library of Congress on Friday, March 31st. Dr. Ronis presented the Gene Smith photography book “Digital Dharma: Recovering Wisdom,” and spoke about Gene Smith and his organization’s Buddhist digital preservation as well...

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13 Apr E-texts on BUDA are now Integrated with Monlam Dictionary

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The greatest Tibetan dictionary, the Monlam Grand Tibetan Dictionary, is now available on BUDA where it can be used to look up the meaning of every word in our vast e-text archive. ...

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28 Mar White Lotus: The Tibetan Biography of Gene Smith

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We are delighted to announce that BDRC Senior Librarian Kelsang Lhamo has published "The White Lotus Biography of Jamyang Gene Smith," her long-awaited Tibetan language biography of our founder Gene Smith. ...

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10 Feb An Interview with Dafna Yachin, Filmmaker and Author

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Dafna Yachin is the indomitable director of Digital Dharma, the documentary, and now co-author of Digital Dharma: Recovering Wisdom, the companion photo book. Her deep friendship with our founder Gene Smith (1936-2010), who became her mentor, is what drove the first project. ...

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08 Feb བོད་ཀྱི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཡིག་ཚང་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་སྲོལ་རྒྱུན་ས་མིང་གི་རྣམ་གཞག་དང་ཁྱད་ཆོས་ལ་དཔྱད་པ།

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སྤྱིར་བོད་ཀྱི་ས་མིང་ལ་རིགས་མང་ཞིང་རྒྱ་ཆེ་ལ་ཞིབ་འཇུག་བྱེད་པར་ཡང་མ་མཐར་ས་ཁམས་རིག་པ་དང་། ལོ་རྒྱུས་རིག་པ། སྐད་བརྡ་རིག་པ་སོགས་ཆེད་ལས་སྣ་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་བཤད་བྱེད་ཕྱོགས་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་པ་ཞིག་ཡོད་པ་གོར་མ་ཆགས་མོད། ...

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24 Jan Karma Pakshi, the Founder of the Karmapa Lineage

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On Tuesday, Jan 17th, BDRC launched a public event series with a book talk by Charles Manson about Buddhist master Karma Pakshi, advisor to the Mongol Khans and the founder of the Karmapa lineage....

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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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15 Nov New Photo Book Celebrates Gene Smith's Life and Legacy

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On Tuesday, November 1, friends and supporters of the Buddhist Digital Resource Center gathered together in New York City to celebrate the publication of a beautiful photography book, on Gene Smith, called Digital Dharma: Recovering Wisdom. ...

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