BDRC plans to digitize 150 important Tibetan texts from the collection of our founder, E. Gene Smith. All have unique content and are previously unpublished, or are important specimens of old xylographs or manuscripts that need to be digitized in full color. ...
In recent weeks BDRC’s CTO, Mr. Élie Roux, played a major role in identifying and digitizing a Tibetan text with a remarkable history, a fragment of a 17th century Kangyur known as the Ablaikit Kangyur. ...
This month BDRC has acquired and posted online many documents that were housed at the Moravian Christian Mission in Leh, Ladakh. Thanks to Martin Vernier for digitizing selected texts and sharing them with BDRC for open access....
The Buddhist Digital Resource Center announces the release of a breakthrough Optical Character Recognition (OCR) app for Tibetan....
Scans of new woodblock prints of the Nyingma Gyubum, the Collected Nyingma Tantras, are now live on BDRC's digital library. ...
Announcing a major update to the Buddhist Digital Resource Center's digital library, BUDA! Explore the new beta version at beta.bdrc.io and share your feedback—it's essential to helping us improve. This update is based on your valuable input, and we're excited to share four key new...
BDRC's most recent collaboration with the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives is the digital preservation of hundreds of never-before-published texts from their renowned Manuscripts Division. ...
Read about a major milestone in technological innovation of the Tibetan language as the open source software suite LibreOffice's latest update supports an important feature of Tibetan: very long paragraphs....
BDRC is proud to announce an exciting project that will contribute a powerful new app and millions of pages of primary materials to Tibetan Studies. This cutting-edge, cross-platform desktop tool for optical character recognition (OCR) of Tibetan scripts will ‘unlock’ the writing embedded in scans...
Do you wonder about the sources of the texts BDRC digitizes and puts online? Although we seek out undocumented texts ourselves, we also aim to amplify manuscripts that local partners have recovered, edited, and published. Here are two inspiring examples of community preservation work that...
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