BDRC is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation.
All donations are tax deductible in the U.S.A.
BDRC is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation.
All donations are tax deductible in the U.S.A.
As a nonprofit organization, BDRC relies on the donations and support of users and individuals like you. Every year, thousands of people visit our site for free access to the treasures of Buddhist literature. Your generosity helps to preserve Buddhist literature for the benefit of all, for all time.
To mark BDRC's 25th Anniversary we are building an endowment fund to support core operational costs and secure the future of the archive. LEARN MORE HERE.
To secure the future of the archive, we invite all our supporters, friends, and users of the archive to become recurring donors and join our vital mission to preserve Buddhist literature for the world. Will you join the Dharma Protectors' Circle, the vibrant community of donors who keep the archive online and ensure BDRC's sustainability?
LEARN MOREWe are committed to keeping this precious resource free – now and for future generations.
By making BDRC a beneficiary of your will or trust, your generosity will support the lamas, monks, nuns, translators, scholars, practitioners and many others who rely on BDRC, and who will continue to benefit from our archive for generations to come.
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Learn moreIn 2022 BDRC logged more than 220,000 web sessions from 93,934 unique users in 152 countries.
With more than 73,000 volumes digitized, and 29 million pages of Buddhist texts made freely accessible to the public, BDRC's archive is the largest digital collection of Buddhist texts in the world.
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