13 Jan BUDA Demo Now Online
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. ...
17 Dec Tibetan Treasures from the National Library of Mongolia
Even as BDRC builds on Gene’s legacy and expands its holdings from Tibetan into Sanskrit, Nepalese, Chinese, Khmer, Pali and Burmese, the heart of our ever-expanding library remains our Tibetan texts....
02 Nov An Introduction to BDRC's Librarians
Tibetan texts can be tricky to work with. Publication information is often missing or unstandardized, with some works lacking titles entirely while others have author information buried in the colophon. That’s why BDRC has expert librarians with the specialized knowledge needed to catalog these challenging...
08 Oct Job Posting: BDRC Seeks Fellow in Southeast Asian Manuscripts
With generous support from Khyentse Foundation, the Buddhist Digital Resource Center invites applications for a fellowship in Southeast Asian manuscripts, to begin 1 January 2021....
26 Aug The BUDA Network: Creating a Web of Buddhist Resources
With libraries and archives closed around the world, the value of BDRC’s online platform has gained new significance as the most comprehensive collection of Buddhist writings in classical Asian languages. ...
25 May The Kagyu Tradition
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Today we’re featuring new acquisitions of texts from the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. BDRC founder Gene Smith championed Kagyu literary heritage and had fruitful relations with many Kagyu lamas. ...
17 May The Nyingma Tradition
BDRC has an excellent collection of Nyingma texts as a result of its close connections with Nyingma lamas. For decades, BDRC’s founder, Gene Smith, was both a student and friend of H.H. Dilgo Khyentse (1910-1991), who was the head of the Nyingma School of Tibetan...
10 May Rare Bön Texts From the BDRC Archive
With support from the BDRC community and our generous funding partners, BDRC has been expanding its collection of Tibetan texts through new digitization efforts in Tibet and Mongolia, as well as through our long-term operations in India...
07 Mar We're Hiring!
Join the BDRC team and help us preserve and share Buddhist literary heritage! We’re seeking three technology and design experts—a UI developer, a UX expert, and a graphic designer—to help us finish our next-generation archival platform, the Buddhist Universal Digital Archive (BUDA)....
05 Oct BDRC Board Selects Jann Ronis as New Executive Director
The Buddhist Digital Resource Center’s Board of Directors has selected Jann Ronis to lead BDRC as its new Executive Director. ...