请加入我们一起庆祝BDRC的25周年纪念!
请加入我们一起庆祝BDRC的25周年纪念!
2024年9月28日标志着佛教数字资源中心成立25周年。自1999年以来,BDRC一直与当地社区和支持者携手,搜寻和数字化佛教典籍,使许多珍贵和濒临消失的文本手稿得以永久数字化保存。在25年的不懈努力下,我们共同保存了超过3000万页的佛教文献,并免费向全世界开放。
请加入我们的周年活动,为中心的可持续性献力。让我们投资BDRC的长期发展,确保我们共同创建的佛教文献数据库永远安全并可持续开放访问。
在未来的二十五年里,有您的支持,我们将实现三大目标:
保护易受气候和政治动荡影响而濒临消失的佛教文献
开发创新技术解锁文献档案中的智慧宝藏
支持佛教社区更自主的数字保护其文化和宗教传统
Zoom in on Tuesday December 10 to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Buddhist Digital Resource Center.
Please join renowned Buddhist Studies scholar Donald S. Lopez in conversation with BDRC Executive Director Jann Ronis to mark BDRC's quarter century. Don't miss this opportunity to hear from one of the world's leading scholars of Buddhism, just as his new book Buddhism: A Journey through History is about to be published.
When you register you will receive a link to listen to the keynote address that Professor Lopez gave on September 20 at the Rubin Museum of Art.
The 23 minute talk examines a key activity in the transmission of Buddhism to the west: the circulation of Buddhist manuscripts from temples in Asia to libraries and classrooms in Europe and North America. Professor Lopez presents vivid accounts of two of the most influential figures in this process, one of whom is the founder of BDRC, Gene Smith. These chapters in the history of Buddhism help us better understand the magnitude of BDRC's role in this global development. Then, on Dec 10, bring your questions and join us for a lively, dynamic conversation.
Donald S. Lopez is the Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author, translator, or editor of more than twenty books, including The Scientific Buddha: His Short and Happy Life, The Story of Buddhism, Prisoners of Shangri-La, and the award-winning Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism. His latest book Buddhism: A Journey through History will be published by Yale University Press on January 7, 2025.
On Friday September 20, 2024 the Buddhist Digital Resource Center marked its 25th anniversary in New York City with an evening of reunion, recollection, and inspiration. Thank you to all who joined us at the Rubin Museum of Art, in particular to the speakers and performers: Professors Donald S. Lopez, Leonard van der Kuijp, Dominique Townsend, and Benjamin Bogin, and special guests musician Laurie Anderson and actor Michael Imperioli. It was a pleasure and a privilege to hear their readings and reflections.
In his closing remarks, BDRC's Executive Director Jann Ronis spoke about the next 25, 50, or 108 years of text preservation, and announced the launch of an 25th Anniversary fund to secure a sustainable future for the BDRC archive.
Grateful thanks to our friends at Khyentse Foundation, who have published an article to mark BDRC's 25th anniversary and the long collaboration between the two organizations. You can visit their website at the link below to read a full description of the event, and see photos in the slideshow above
We are also grateful to Tim McHenry and all the team at the Rubin for hosting us during the busy final month that they were open to visitors in New York. It is indeed auspicious that the Rubin Museum and BDRC are both celebrating anniversaries and embarking on transformative reinventions this fall, and we hope that a brilliant future awaits us both.