BDRC collaborates with many partners in Asia who are right at the source of important collections of Buddhist literature. With support from our local partners and generous sponsors, BDRC is able to digitize those collections and make them freely available in our online archive....
BDRC, with the generous support of the Khyentse Foundation, has been working with the Fragile Palm Leaves Foundation since 2016 to preserve their massive collection of palm leaf Buddhist manuscripts....
Your generosity during BDRC’s end-of-year appeal raised well over $15,000 to help support the ongoing development of our new online education platform—which has just launched its first courses! Thank you for helping make this possible!...
BDRC has been diligently seeking new collections of important Buddhist texts for preservation and archiving. The results of this work are coming to fruition as BDRC launches a new digitization initiative: the Nepalese Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscript Scanning Initiative....
After 17 years at the Buddhist Digital Resource Center, BDRC’s Executive Director Jeff Wallman is stepping down. It is our priority to find the best individual to lead BDRC and the qualities and qualifications we seek in our next Executive Director are described in the...
BDRC has recently opened a new office in Munich, Germany, which will serve as the central hub for all of BDRC's European activities and operations....
The Fragile Palm Leaves collection includes over one hundred Kammavācā manuscripts, dating from the later 18th century through the early 20th century. ...
It may be a new year but it’s not too late to reflect on what happened in 2017. The last 12 months was a busy time for BDRC, and we reached a number of significant milestones....
BDRC was visited by Khenpo Sodargye, one of the most eminent contemporary Buddhist teachers. ...
In collaboration with Buddhist Research and Resources Center of Zhejiang University, BDRC is thrilled to announce two significant product offerings: the launch of BDRC’s online library for users in China and the release of its free mobile app, “BDRC Lib.” ...
The Buddhist Digital Resource Center shares over 28 million pages of Buddhist texts with the world, for free.
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