BDRC is proud to announce an exciting project that will contribute a powerful new app and millions of pages of primary materials to Tibetan Studies. This cutting-edge, cross-platform desktop tool for optical character recognition (OCR) of Tibetan scripts will ‘unlock’ the writing embedded in scans...
Do you wonder about the sources of the texts BDRC digitizes and puts online? Although we seek out undocumented texts ourselves, we also aim to amplify manuscripts that local partners have recovered, edited, and published. Here are two inspiring examples of community preservation work that...
The BDRC archive has doubled the number of contemporary women writers and figures represented; an important step towards equality and full representation of Tibetan women in the global knowledge commons....
BDRC is pleased to announce three valuable additions to the archive which will be of enormous interest to students of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies. These have been generously provided by Jonathan Silk, Professor of Buddhist Studies at Leiden University, with an introduction to each. They...
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 were interred in a stupa dating from the 12th century....
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. ...
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....
Dr. Petra Kieffer-Pülz is a scholar of Pali literature who has been studying a monastic boundary dispute in Sri Lanka for the past five years. Texts made available by BUDA allowed Dr. Kieffer-Pülz to study previously unsurfaced material that shed new light on this dispute....
Our library platform, the Buddhist Digital Archives, is a vast ocean of Dharma texts. Please enjoy browsing a selection of our collections on BUDA. These collections are groups of texts that are part of the same preservation project, the same library, or come from a...
For close to 25 years now, a leading resource in Tibetan Studies has been Dan Martin’s Tibetan Histories: A Bibliography of Tibetan-Language Historical Works, Serindia Publications (London 1997). BDRC is proud to be able to now make this resource available for download....
༄།།ནང་བསྟན་གྲངས་འཛིན་དཔེ་ཚོགས་ལྟེ་གནས་ཀྱིས་འཛམ་གླིང་ཡོངས་ལ་ནང་པའི་གསུང་རབས་བོན་དང་བཅས་པ་ཤོག་གྲངས་ས་ཡ་༢༨༠༠ལྷག་བལྟ་ཀློག་ཕབ་ལེན་རིན་མེད་ངང་འབུལ་གྱི་ཡོད།།
དེས་ན་མི་རབས་ནས་མི་རབས་བར་ནང་བསྟན་ཆོས་ལུགས་ཀྱི་གསུང་རབས་གནས་ཐུབ་པར་ཡིད་ཆེས་དང་མོས་པ་ཡོད་ན།རྣམ་པ་ཚོས་དུས་ཆེན་འདི་དང་བསྟུན་༼BDRC༽ལ་དཔྱ་ཁྲལ་ཆག་ཡང་དང་རྩ་ཆག་གི་ལུགས་མཐུནགཞིར་བཟུང་ཞལ་འདེབས་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་གནང་རྒྱུར་དགོངས་འཇགས་འཚལ།།