07 Oct Tips & Tricks for Your BUDA Search

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One of our priorities in developing BUDA was to create a great reading room experience for our users, many of whom are practitioners, researchers, and translators who spend a great deal of time poring over these Buddhist materials. ...

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21 Sep Seeking Buddhist Manuscripts in the Himalayas: The Tibetan Manuscripts Project of Vienna

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As part of the University of Vienna-Tibetan Manuscripts Project and the Resources for Kanjur and Tanjur Studies project, Helmut Tauscher, Bruno Lainé and Markus Viehbeck have documented, and made accessible, valuable manuscripts from the western and southern Himalayas, including rare editions of the Kangyur and...

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31 Aug Shining the Light of Dharma: How BDRC's Longest-Serving Techie Helped Bring Buddhist Texts Online

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The site was down. That’s how Chris Tomlinson first became connected with Gene Smith and the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center in 2000. She would spend the next two decades as a key technologist for BDRC, helping share the Dharma globally and transforming the way people...

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20 Aug Illuminating BUDA: How to Improve Your Searches

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Our new website includes improvements to both the user interface and the architecture of the data. In this post we will introduce one of the changes to our data architecture and how this change will affect your searches....

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28 Jun Lotsawa: The Eyes of the World

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For many, translations of Buddhist texts are their first or main way of studying the Dharma. Translators rely on BDRC, and many readers of Buddhist texts rely on translators....

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06 May The Dao of Peter

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Long-time friends of BDRC will know of Peter Gruber: founder of the Gruber Foundation Science Prizes, friend of Gene Smith, and a major benefactor of Buddhism in America who played an important role in bringing Buddhist teachings to the West....

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19 Mar Indian Partners and Their Collections

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While we have partnerships around the world, today we want to highlight and celebrate our partnerships with major institutions in India, which is in many ways the birthplace of TBRC/BDRC. Recently we have released online hundreds of volumes of significant works provided to BDRC by...

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03 Mar Search Me!

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Search is how most of our users interact with our library and database. As fast and intuitive as the search on BUDA is, we continue to refine and improve it in order to offer our users the most seamless search experience.  So we are happy...

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26 Jan Tibetan Search Enhancements: Part 2

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A major update to BDRC's search engine was released in 2014 and today we are releasing a second major improvement to the search engine....

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13 Jan BUDA Demo Now Online

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BDRC’s Executive Director Dr. Jann Ronis and technical lead Élie Roux present an online demo of our new website and library platform, the Buddhist Digital Archives (BUDA), providing tips and tricks for the new user. ...

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