28 Oct Matthieu Ricard Visits TBRC
Beloved Buddhist monk, scientist, photographer, author, and humanitarian Matthieu Ricard made time on Friday to visit the TBRC office, sharing stories, memories, and tea with TBRC staff....
08 Aug Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche Visits TBRC
Her Eminence Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche visited TBRC last week, touring the Cambridge office and discussing TBRC’s work with staff and TBRC Executive Director Jeff Wallman. ...
06 Jun TBRC Brings Tibetan Manuscripts onto the Google Cultural Institute
We are pleased to announce the arrival of the TBRC exhibition space on the Google Cultural Institute (GCI) platform, online and via mobile device. The TBRC partnership with GCI will allow people worldwide to intimately explore and interact with high-resolution images from select manuscripts in...
23 Apr The Hunt for the Ragya Kangyur
In collaboration with monks from Ragya Monastery in eastern Tibet, TBRC has digitally preserved an extremely rare woodblock printing of the Tibetan Buddhist canon: the Ragya Kangyur....
07 Apr His Holiness Gyalwang Karmapa Visits TBRC
On Thursday, March 26 2015, the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center had the great honor of hosting His Holiness Gyalwang Karmapa in our office for lunch. ...
06 Mar The Library of Congress Rockhill Kangyur Release
With the gracious support of The Library of Congress Asian Division Tibetan Collection in Washington D.C., and in cooperation with the University of Virginia (UVA), TBRC is making available for download a digital version of the Tibetan Kangyur from the Rockhill collection at the Library...
20 Feb Diving into the Backlog, Bringing Wisdom to Light
Our new campaign, Unlock the Backlog, gives friends of TBRC the opportunity to discover unseen texts, wear wisdom in the form of a beautiful treasure pendant, and donate directly to support the dissemination of little-seen manuscripts....
29 Jan TBRC launches collaboration with SOAS to improve access to Tibetan digital texts
A delegation of researchers from SOAS, University of London, visited TBRC for two weeks this autumn to learn about the inner-workings of the TBRC’s data management, search mechanism, and the new eText collection....
19 Dec Gene's Vision for TBRC
After working with Gene for many years, and since his death, continuing his vision, I am amazed at where are today. ...
16 Dec Running Out of Disk Space as We Approach 10 Million Pages
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Last week, the Wikipedia fundraising campaign inspired us to copy their year-end effort. And why not? TBRC has millions of pages of Tibetan texts that are readily available to individuals – TBRC is a huge public resource of Tibetan texts ....