15 Dec Remembering E. Gene Smith and BDRC's Founding Vision

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We honor our founder Gene Smith and we strive to uphold his vision. The Buddhist Digital Resource Center preserves Buddhist literature for the world. ...

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20 Nov BDRC's Newly Released Mobile App for Your iPhone or Tablet

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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...

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16 Oct BDRC Wins the 2023 Aming Tu Prize for Outstanding Creative Contribution to Digital Buddhist Studies

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The Aming Tu Prize recognizes our archival platform, the Buddhist Digital Archives (BUDA), for both its practical benefits to researchers and its technological breakthroughs. ...

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17 Jul The Journey of a Scholar and a Preservationist: Jann Ronis Celebrates Five Years as Executive Director of BDRC

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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. ...

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01 Jun BDRC is Using Artificial Intelligence to Generate Wisdom, Part 2: Training AI to Crop Manuscripts

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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...

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09 May BDRC is Using Artificial Intelligence to Generate Wisdom

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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...

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27 Apr Geshe Monlam: The Man behind the Dictionary

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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. ...

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27 Apr Digital Dharma at the Library of Congress

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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...

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13 Apr E-texts on BUDA are now Integrated with Monlam Dictionary

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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. ...

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28 Mar White Lotus: The Tibetan Biography of Gene Smith

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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. ...

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