Our Executive Director Dr. Jann Ronis gave a book talk at the U.S. Library of Congress on Friday, March 31st. Dr. Ronis presented the Gene Smith photography book “Digital Dharma: Recovering Wisdom,” and spoke about Gene Smith and his organization’s Buddhist digital preservation as well...
The greatest Tibetan dictionary, the Monlam Grand Tibetan Dictionary, is now available on BUDA where it can be used to look up the meaning of every word in our vast e-text archive. ...
We are delighted to announce that BDRC Senior Librarian Kelsang Lhamo has published "The White Lotus Biography of Jamyang Gene Smith," her long-awaited Tibetan language biography of our founder Gene Smith. ...
སྤྱིར་བོད་ཀྱི་ས་མིང་ལ་རིགས་མང་ཞིང་རྒྱ་ཆེ་ལ་ཞིབ་འཇུག་བྱེད་པར་ཡང་མ་མཐར་ས་ཁམས་རིག་པ་དང་། ལོ་རྒྱུས་རིག་པ། སྐད་བརྡ་རིག་པ་སོགས་ཆེད་ལས་སྣ་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་བཤད་བྱེད་ཕྱོགས་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་པ་ཞིག་ཡོད་པ་གོར་མ་ཆགས་མོད། ...
Dafna Yachin is the indomitable director of Digital Dharma, the documentary, and now co-author of Digital Dharma: Recovering Wisdom, the companion photo book. Her deep friendship with our founder Gene Smith (1936-2010), who became her mentor, is what drove the first project. ...
On Tuesday, Jan 17th, BDRC launched our first-ever public event series with a book talk by Charles Manson about Buddhist master Karma Pakshi, advisor to the Mongol Khans and the founder of the Karmapa lineage....
The Dakinis' Great Dharma Treasury, or མཁའ་འགྲོའི་ཆོས་མཛོད་ཆེན་མོ། as this small library of 53 volumes of texts by and about Tibetan women is known, showcases the overlooked brilliance of Buddhist female masters from Tibet through the centuries. ...
On Tuesday, November 1, friends and supporters of the Buddhist Digital Resource Center gathered together in New York City to celebrate the publication of a beautiful photography book, on Gene Smith, called Digital Dharma: Recovering Wisdom. ...
This rare manuscript copy of Bod Khepa’s Collected Works showcases the kind of work that BDRC does, seeking and making available these rare collections from masters whose works would be lost or inaccessible otherwise....
BDRC is proud to announce a new collaboration on a scholarly project: The Authors and Translators Identification Initiative. The goal of ATII is the creation of an open source collaborative database of authors, translators and other figures involved in the creation of Indic Buddhist texts...