BDRC recently published online the Matho Fragments, an extremely rare collection of ancient manuscripts—these are in fact the oldest manuscripts ever discovered in Ladakh. The Matho fragments are Tibetan Buddhist manuscripts and fragments that had been interred in a set of stupas, religious earthen reliquaries,...
In addition to the skillful means of writing and translating, Tulku Thondup Rinpoche also sustained the scriptural Dharma in these dark times through his long term support for BDRC. Rinpoche was a founding board member–he joined in 1999 at the inception of the organization–and helped...
We honor our founder Gene Smith and we strive to uphold his vision. The Buddhist Digital Resource Center preserves Buddhist literature for the world. ...
The Buddhist Digital Resource Center is delighted to present our newly released BDRC Mobile App. The app allows users to view and search the entire BDRC library on their mobile phone, giving you access to 28 million pages of Buddhist literature via the slim iPhone...
The Aming Tu Prize recognizes our archival platform, the Buddhist Digital Archives (BUDA), for both its practical benefits to researchers and its technological breakthroughs. ...
One of the most interesting genres of Tibetan Buddhist literature is the lamyig text, the travel guide, or more appropriately the pilgrimage guide (a subset of lamyig, called the neyig). These travel and pilgrimage guides are not only the most accessible and useful of texts...
Much like Gene Smith, Jann preferred to work on the ground, preserving the texts and making direct contributions to the field of Buddhism that will be felt for generations. ...
We are happy to announce the creation of an exciting new tool to crop and process manuscript images using AI, which up until now has been a laborious and manual process. Called the Segment and Crop Anything Model (SCAM), we have made the tool freely...
Given a large collection of 1.4 million scanned images of 5,000 text volumes and a catalog of 84,000 text titles, how can AI help us map the titles to their corresponding images? This article is an account of a successful project that used AI with...
Through a recent interview with Geshe Monlam, of the amazing Grand Monlam Tibetan Dictionary, we learned that the man behind this terrific work is a modern day Renaissance man. Read on. ...