TBRC is pleased to announce the upcoming release of its new website on May 3, 2010. The new release is intended to provide (1) multi-language capability [localization] and an (2) improved user experience.
The TBRC Library provides access to the complete range of Tibetan literature using a variety of current knowledge management solutions. This release is the [...]
By Paldor and Michael Sheehy
Though the oral precepts of the Nyingma were introduced from the time of the imperial period, it was not until Smin gling Gter chen Rig ‘dzin ‘gyur med rdo rje (1646-1714) and his younger brother Smin gling Lo chen D+harma shrI (1654-1718) wrote a series of commentaries on these teachings that [...]
For the past few years, we at TBRC have been actively engaged in disseminating individual installations of the TBRC Library. Over the course of time, we have gradually standardized these libraries in order to optimize their user-friendliness and reliability. These have evolved into individual installations of the TBRC Library that can be utilized from even [...]
TBRC is pleased to announce open access to Tibetan canonical works in the TBRC Digital Library.
The current release includes complete and unrestricted access to the many carvings of the Tibetan bka’ ‘gyur and bstan ‘gyur extant in the TBRC Digital Library. The service includes catalog access to outlines (extensive metadata), text downloads (scans), title, author and topic searching, as [...]
By Michael R. Sheehy
A follow-up to Dan Martins earlier post on the Canonical Catalog of the Third Karmapa Rang byung Rdo rje, and in the spirit of the Translating the Words of the Buddha conference that recently concluded in India, we wanted to draw attention to two additional catalogs of the Tibetan canon. The first [...]