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....
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. ...
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. ...
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....
The Buddhist Digital Resource Center is at the 16th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies—the IATS conference currently underway at Charles University in Prague in the Czech Republic! The majority of the text-based papers presented at the conference were enabled by BDRC's archive....
Mingyur Rinpoche spent two hours with BDRC staff, board members and friends discussing BDRC’s essential work and the importance of textual preservation for the living Buddhist lineages....
We made a major new addition to BDRC's geo-data for Buddhist sites in the Inner Asian world, thanks to generous data sharing by the "Documentation of Mongolian Monasteries" project and Dr. Isabelle Charleux. Over time these new sites will become even more dynamic as we...
At the Library of Congress, she gave life to the Tibetan Collection, shaping and defining it into one of the most valuable collections at the Library. Because of her, what began as unidentified texts collecting dust deep in storage is now a treasure that draws...
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....
BDRC is proud to announce a new collaboration on a scholarly project: The Authors and Translators Identification Initiative. The goal of ATII is the creation of an open source collaborative database of authors, translators and other figures involved in the creation of Indic Buddhist texts...
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