Buddhist
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BDRC's ED Jann Ronis and CTO Élie Roux are awarded the Aming Tu Prize, Taipei, March 2024.

Gene Smith tutoring the children of HH Dagchen Rinpoche and HE Jamyang Dagmo Kushu in Seattle, 1960s

E. Gene Smith with Dezhung Rinpoche in Seattle

Gene Smith with his dogs in India, 1970s

Gene Smith with his collection of Tibetan Buddhist texts.

Gene Smith demonstrates the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center at Songtsen Library.

Gene Smith and Ven. Matthieu Ricard with monks inputting texts at Shechen Monastery, Nepal.

In the early days, TBRC created CDs of digitized Buddhist texts to distribute.

Gene Smith presents a hard drive of Buddhist texts to Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche in Kathmandu.

A hard drive with a curated collection of Buddhist texts: Issue 7 of the Core Text Collection.

L to R: Robert Thurman, Gene Smith, Khenpo Choying Dorjé of Dzongsar Institute at Bir Conference on Translating the Words of the Buddha, Bir 2008.

Signing ceremony for donation of the E. Gene Smith library to South West Nationalities University, Chengdu, China 2007.

Gene Smith at South West Nationalities University Chengdu where he donated his text collection.

Gene Smith with the staff of the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center, NYC 2010.

Gene Smith at his office at the Rubin Foundation, New York City, 2010.

Gene Smith's obituary in the Economist, Dec 2010

The E. Gene Smith Tibetan Library at South West Nationalities University, Chengdu, China, established in 2011.

The Board of Directors of the Buddhist Digital Resource Center in 2015.

BDRC works with local preservationists to scan and publish texts.

Digitizing the Ragya Kangyur.

Scanning Buddhist texts at Mentsekhang Library, India.

Reviewing texts for digitization at Mentsekhang.

A visit from HH the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, March 2015

The BDRC Librarians at the International Association of Tibetan Studies conference in Prague, 2022.

Jann Ronis with Susan Meinheit, at the Tibetan Collection of the Library of Congress.

The Digital Dharma production team: editor Tenzin Dickie, Patricia Gruber of the Gruber Foundation, Jann Ronis of BDRC, authors Dafna Yachin and Arthur M. Fischman.

Audience at the launch of Digital Dharma in New York City, November 2022

Scanning Khmer texts in Cambodia.

Digitization stations for Fragile Palm Leaves Collection of texts from Burma.

Librarians at Shugseb Nunnery, India, organize their collection of Buddhist texts.

BDRC Head Librarian trains local partner in digitization skills.

Event for Digital Dharma at the BDRC office, Boston, February 2023.

Geshe Monlam visit to the BDRC office, January 2024

BDRC Head Librarian digitizing texts at Namdroling Monastery.

Book launch for the Biography of Gene Smith by BDRC Senior Librarian Kelsang Lhamo.

The BDRC mobile app

Laurie Anderson, Dominique Townsend and Benjamin Bogin at BDRC's 25th Anniversary Event on Sept 20, 2024