Archive for February, 2009

Green Tara

The Green Tara with Six Arms (Tara Syamasadanga) was a Kriya Tantra teaching transmitted by Nyen Lotsava Darmadrag (Gnyan Lo tsA ba Darma grags). Another form of the Green Tara has also been attributed to Khache Panchen. This form has also been attributed to Nagarjuna (Klu sgrub lugs). A visionary form as an anuttarayogini form [...]

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Unicode Tibetan Texts

TBRC hopes to make available to users searchable Unicode Tibetan texts. We hope to choose texts for acquisition and input which are of value to translators and scholars for the identification of quotations occurring in works intended for translation. Important texts which we now have available for users are a selection of historical works, the [...]

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Place names, toponyms, and TBRC entries

TBRC realizes that it is not possible to handle the difficult technological issues involved in Geographic Information System (GIS) needed for recording the data for places in the Himalayan and Central Asian worlds. Years ago TBRC began to create entries for places in order to link the “where” with the “what,” “who,” and “when” [...]

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