Tibetan and Buddhist Tech Updates

BDRC is always active behind the scenes to foster a collaborative and passionate network of institutions and individuals providing practioners, scholars and translators with the material they need. The story of this blog post starts in the mid-1990s, when a project was undertaken by His Eminence Khochhen Tulku (b. 1937) in Dehradun to publish the Collected Works of the great master Terdak Lingpa (1646-1714). The project resulted in an impressive 16 volumes publication in 1998, scanned and put online in open access by BDRC under the number MW22096. ...

The field of Tibetan technology is a perfect example of a multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary decentralized network. Most of the time progress is driven by discreet behind the scene interactions, but today we would like to document such an example and put the spotlight on some of the behind the scene figures making the field move forward. The story starts with a major breakthrough by the Tibetan Manuscripts Project Vienna (TMPV) and Christian Luczanits: identifying and scanning in Western Nepal two well preserved early (13-14th c.) collections of Buddhist Canonical texts, the Namgyal collection and the Drakmar collection. Both major discoveries per se. ...