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. ...
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། ...
On Tuesday, Jan 17th, BDRC launched a 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....
The Buddhist Digital Resource Center is at the 16th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies—the IATS conference currently underway at Charles University in Prague in the Czech Republic! The majority of the text-based papers presented at the conference were enabled by BDRC's archive....
Mingyur Rinpoche spent two hours with BDRC staff, board members and friends discussing BDRC’s essential work and the importance of textual preservation for the living Buddhist lineages....
We made a major new addition to BDRC's geo-data for Buddhist sites in the Inner Asian world, thanks to generous data sharing by the "Documentation of Mongolian Monasteries" project and Dr. Isabelle Charleux. Over time these new sites will become even more dynamic as we...
At the Library of Congress, she gave life to the Tibetan Collection, shaping and defining it into one of the most valuable collections at the Library. Because of her, what began as unidentified texts collecting dust deep in storage is now a treasure that draws...
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