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Buddhist Texts: Searches & Repositories

Buddhist Texts (Tibetan)

Buddhist Digital Resource Center: The largest archive of scanned PDFs of Tibetan texts. Useful to have an overview of an author's work or to prepare an extensive bibliography on a given topic.
Buda: Buddhist Digital Resource Center's new online library.
Resources for Kanjur & Tanjur Studies: The most complete online database of Tibetan canonical texts (Kangyur & Tengyur).
Asian Classics Input Project
The Buddhist Canons Research Database: Kangyur and Tengyur search with links to available recensions in ACIP, TBRC and others.
Adarsha Online: Kangyur, Tengyur, and Sungbum repository of e-texts and scans.
The Tibetan & Himalayan Library: Tibetan Canon Catalogs at UVa’s Tibetan & Himalayan Library.
Asian Classics Input Project: ACIP Tibetan Digital Text for Kangyur and Tengyur.
Munchener DigitalisierungsZentrum Digitale Bibliothek: Scans of Tibetan Texts in Munich.
Dharma Downloads Karma Leksheyling
Sakya Research Center- Tibetan texts
Buddhanexus: Intertextuality in the Tibetan canonical literature.
Tibetan Text Repository at Otani University
Tibetan Texts (Kern Institute) - University of Leiden
Nepalese-German Manuscript Cataloguing Project (Tibetan texts)
Ngor's Textual Treasures
A Comparative Database of the Rin chen gter mdzod

Buddhist Texts (Old Tibetan)

Old Tibetan Documents Online: Old Tibetan texts (VIIth to XIIth centuries) including Dunhuang manuscripts, inscriptions and related materials.
The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online: Manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road.

Buddhist Texts (Chinese)

Buddhist Texts (Sanskrit)

Digital Buddhist Sanskrit Canon: Repository of Buddhist Sanskrit digitized texts.
GRETIL Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon
KWIC Index to the Sanskrit Texts of Dharmakīrti
Sarit - Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts
Pandit: Prosographical Database for Indic texts
Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien
Nepalese-German Manuscript Cataloguing Project (Indic texts)
DCS - Digital Corpus of Sanskrit

Buddhist Texts (Pali)

Buddhist Texts (Gāndhārī)

Catalog of Gāndhārī Texts (Stefan Baums and Andrew Glass)

Buddhist Texts (Multilingual)

Open Philology (University of Leiden): Digital environment for the study of Buddhist sūtra literature.
Materials in Tibetan and Sanskrit - Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (Vienna, Austria)
Bibliotheca Polyglotta: A multilingual text alignment project of Buddhist literature.
The Tibetan-Mongolian Rare Books and Manuscripts (TMRBM) project
Buddhanet (Theravada and Mahayana eBooks)
Digital Database of Buddhist Tripitaka Catalogue
Publications of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology (IRIAB)

Dictionaries and Glossaries

Dictionaries and Glossaries (Tibetan)

NEW Monlam Dictionary (2022)
84000 Online glossaries of Tibetan and Sanskrit terms
Rangjung Yeshe Dharma Dictionary and Lotsawa Workbench: Tibetan-English dictionary, dharma glossaries, and resources.
Wörterbuch der tibetischen Schriftsprache: Tibetan-German Dictionary (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
Comprehensive list of Tibetan print dictionaries (Columbia University Library)
Dictionaries& encyclopedias (Columbia University)
Steinert Online Tibetan Dictionary and App: Allows search of most available dictionaries in a pleasing online format.
GoldenDict: Online and offline Tibetan dictionaries combined.
THL Tibetan to English Translation Tool
Informative link about Tibetan dictionaries from THL
Glossaries for Buddhist Studies
THL Tibetan Historical Dictionary at the University of Virginia
Index for Spices in Tibetan Script
Tibetan Translation Tool
Rangjung Yeshe, Tshig mdzod chen mo, and Monlam dictionaries at Nitartha
Tibetan medical terms (Katherina Sabernig)
Dzogchen Wiki (French)
Lexicography in Motion: A History of the Tibetan Verb
Sakya Research Center - Specialized glossaries
Goldstein Tibetan to English Dictionary
Goldstein English-Tibetan Dictionary
Study Buddhism - Glossary
Dan Martin's Tibetan Vocabulary
Sambhota Dictionary Search - A collection of searchable online dictionaries
Dharmapedia - Dictionnaire encyclopédique du Bouddhisme indien et tibétain (French)
Old Tibetan Dictionary (Dr. Joanna Bialek - Zentralasien-Seminar Institut für Asien- und Afrika Wissenschaften Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Tsikzoe.net - A collection of searchable online dictionaries
Lotus King Lotus King Padma online dictionaries
Online Tibetan Bible Dictionary

Dictionaries and Glossaries (Sanskrit)

Dictionaries and Glossaries (Gāndhārī)

Gāndhārī Dictionary

Dictionaries and Glossaries (Pali)

Dictionaries of South Asia – Pali Dictionary

Dictionaries and Glossaries (Chinese)

Dictionaries and Glossaries (Multilingual)

Specialized Dictionaries and Glossaries

Encyclopedias, Knowledge Bases, and Research Projects

Buddhism

UVa Tibet Center
Tibetan Studies WWW Virtual Library
The Treasury of Lives: Biographies of Tibetan Masters.
Masters of Buddhism: Biographies and lives of Buddhist Masters
Rigpa Shedra: An online encyclopedia of Tibetan Buddhism.
Study Buddhism - Alexander Berzin
Online databases - Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship (University of Hamburg)
Classical Tibetan Knowledge: Archive and Study Resource from Central University of Tibetan Studies.
Resources for Tibetan Calligraphy and Reading Mantras
Sakya Research Center - Database of images, texts, people, deities, and places
Database of inscriptions in Western Tibet, Ladakh, Zanskar. ahul, Spiti, and Kinnaur
Database of early Tibetan scholastic materials
Tibetan Buddhist Wall Paintings of Mustang
Digital Museum of Buddhism in Taiwan
The Stupa - Posts About the Buddhadharma
Kālacakra - A knowledge base about topics related to the Kālacakra Tantra
The Database of Religious History (University of British Columbia)
Chogyam Trungpa Digital Library
Mapping Buddhist Monasteries 200-1200 CE Project

History, Society and Culture

The World of Xuanzang and the Silk Road
Susan Whitfield's blog on the Silk Road
Digital Silk Road: Digital archives of cultural heritage.
Burial Mounds of Central Tibet and TAR Toponym Search: The site search currently holds around 45,000 entries.
Resources for Tibetan historical research (Columbia University)
Tibetan Newspapers from Anna Sawerthal's Research: An Overview of Historical Tibetan-language Newspapers.
Tibet Heritage Fund
Mandala - Knowledge maps about Tibetan and Bhutanese sources, people, and places
Photographic & archival images (Columbia University)
Digital Himalaya (University of Cambridge)
TibArmy: History of the Tibetan army under the Ganden Phodrang government (1642-1959)
Tibetosophy - Tibetan Proper Name Index (Dan Martin)
Prosopography of the Tibetan Empire according to Old Tibetan sources
Tibetan Inscriptions in the Western Himalaya (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Orient Foundation for Arts and Culture (Multimedia documentation of Classical Indian and Tibetan Knowledge Resources)
Tibet Archeology (John Vincent Bellezza)
ERC Research Project BuddhistRoad (University of Bochum)
Ladakh Archeology

Tibetan Astrology

Maps of Tibet

Tibetan Art and Architecture

Early Paintings from Central Tibet
Himalayan Art Resources: Largest educational resource for Himalayan Art and Iconography.
Tibetan art & material culture (Columbia university)
Tibetan music & performing arts (Columbia University)
The Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Asian Art - Photographic documentation of art and architecture throughout Asia
The Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Asian Art - List of links

Theravada, Indian and Chinese Buddhism

The origins of Buddhist Schools by Bhikkhu Sujato
Theravadin Dhamma Wiki-Encyclopedia
Maps of Ancient Buddhist India
List of online resources for the study of Buddhism in China
Jātaka Stories (University of Edinburgh): A free online searchable database of jātakas in Indian texts and art.

Tibetan Language Resources

Esukhia: Tibetan Language Learning, Translation, and Research.
Amdo Dialects: A list of Amdo dialect instructional books
Learn Amdo pronunciation and basic spoken dialect: An excellent resource with sound bites and detailed comparison for Lhasa dialect speakers.
Language resources (Columbia University)
Dharma Farm - Online Tibetan language translation school

Sanskrit Language Resources

Vrddhi - Sanskrit at the University of Chicago

Libraries

Bibliographies and Catalogues

Michael Kicey's Buddhism: A Guide to Research: Contains bibliographies focusing on Buddhist traditions as well as on various themes and issues related to Buddhism.
General Bibliographies (Columbia University)
H-Buddhism Bibliography Project: H-Buddhism’s truly massive bibliography project.
Bibliographies on Buddhism in Western Languages: Professor Bingenheimer’s work.
Karma dgon Tibetan Bibliography Database
Tsadra Digital Research Library Bibliographies
Kham Research Bibliography
Bibliothèque Dhagpo Kagyu: Bibliography
Buddhist Epistemology and Ontology: Bibliography
Dan Martin's Tibskrit: Bibliography
Dan Martin's Bon Bibliography
Tibskrit: introductory essay and comprehensive bibliographical index on Indian and Tibetan Buddhist topics, emphasis on literary.
Bibliography of Buddhist Studies Bibliographies in Western Languages
Buddhist studies monographs published in German, Austrian and Swiss series
Catalogue of the Kangyur and Tengyur with English translations
The Kagyur Karchag Encyclopedia Project (Sarnath International Nyingma Institute)

Dissertations

University sites

Regional searches

Other sites

Journals

Databases of academic articles

Journals for Tibetan Buddhist Studies

Journals publishing articles on Buddhism

Buddhist Translation projects

From Tibetan
- 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha: Translations of texts from the Tibetan Kangyur.
- Lotsawa House: Free Translations with Digital Tibetan Texts.
- Translating the Core Texts of the Longchen Nyingtik
- Zang Thal: Karen Liljenberg's personal website
- Tibshelf: Translations by Ryan Jacobson, Tenzin Choephel, Tom Greensmith

From Chinese
- BDK America
- Buddhist Text Translation Society (BTTS)

From Pali

Translation Projects

Dharma Publishers

Publishers
- Shambhala Publications
- Wisdom Publications
- Parallax Press
- Padmakara, France
- The American Institute of Buddhist Studies
- Rangjung Yeshe Publications: Oral teachings of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and his spiritual sons.
- IITBS Gmbh
- Institute of Tibetan Classics
- Library of Tibetan Works & Archives
- Light of Berotsana
- Vajra Publications, Nepal
- Tibetan e-Books
- Dharma e-Books from Gyalwang Karmapa
- Dharma e-Books from Tsadra Foundation and partners
- Institut d'Études Bouddhiques
- Bodhicharya Publications
- Blazing Wisdom Institute
- Rangdröl Publications
- Padma Publishing
- Dharma Publishing
- Pariyatti
- Dharma Drum Publications
- Windhorse Publications
- Éditions Yogi Ling
- Chuo Academic Research Institute (CARI) of Rissho Kosei-kai (RK)

E-texts publishers
- Sera Jey Rigzod Chenmo
- Dharma Downloads: Library of Free Digital Tibetan Texts.
- Tibetan e Books
- Nitartha Digital Library
- A Sakya Digital Library: Khenchen Appey Rinpoche, Khenpo Ngawang Jorden, and the International Buddhist Academy in Kathmandu have created a great resource of Tibetan texts available for free.
- Buddhist Publication Society
- Lotsawa House
- Buddhasasana - A Buddhist Page

Buddhist Organizations

Institut d’Etudes Bouddhiques Centre francophone d'étude et d'enseignement sur le bouddhisme - Paris
Institut Dhagpo (France)
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies
Institute of Buddhist Studies (Berkeley)
Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies (CHIBS)
Maitripa College (Portland)
The Buddhist Society
Glorisun Global Buddhist Network
Atiyoga Foundation - Preserving the cultural heritage of professor Namkhai Norbu
Sarnath International Nyingma Institute
Institut Vajra Yogini (France)
Palpung Changchub Dargyeling (UK)

Academic Publishers

Academic Institutions

Asia

Australia
- Nan Tien Institute of Higher Education

North America

Europe

Online Lectures and Podcasts

Tibetan Graduate Studies Seminar (Oxford University)

Magazines

Booksellers

Tibetan Bookstore: Get Tibetan Texts from Asia.
Vimala
Biblia Impex

Networks, Blogs, and Forums

H-Buddhism
Lotsawa Forum: A useful email listserv for translators.
Official forum from IATS
Tibeto-logic - Dan Martin’s blog
Dan Martin's Tibetological page on Tibetan Stories
Sam van Schaik’s blog on Tibet's “early” period (7th-10th c.)
Sam van Schaik’s blog on Old Tibetan manuscripts
Dzogchen Wiki: Collection of encyclopedic entries on Dzogchen topics (in French).
Publications from Dr. Achard: Jean-Luc Achard Blog.
Philologia-Tibetica - Dorji Wangchuk's blog
The Lost Yak - Geoffrey Barstow's blog

Events

Digital Tools (Tibetan, Sanskrit, Chinese)

Tools
- Digital Tibetan: An extensive online resource for Tibetan Dharma technology.
- THL’s Online Tibetan Transliteration Converter: Convert Wylie to Unicode Tibetan.
- THL’s Online Tibetan Phonetics Converter: Tibetan or Wylie to Phonetics Converter.
- Digital Tibetan Wiki - help with setting up your computer to work with Tibetan
- Ketaka - Tibetan Digital Tool Kit (Wylie converters, texts comparison tools)

Fonts (Tibetan)

Fonts (Sanskrit)
- University of Chicago's South Asian Language Resource Center -- font list

Open etexts
- OpenPecha - Github page (Tibetan)
- OpenPecha - Etext archive facilitating cross-disciplinary collaboration in curating and enriching etexts (Tibetan)

Github Repositories
- 84000 Github page

Machine Translation
- Microsoft Bing's Translator (Tibetan is included in the list of available languages)
- Monlam.ai (Artificial intelligence in service of Tibetan language and culture)

Text Analysis
- TACL - A text analysis tool developed by Michael Radich and Jamie Norrish (Chinese)

Resource Identifier
- JSTOR Text Analyzer - A tool to search for content on JSTOR just by uploading a document

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 ==Dictionaries and Glossaries (Tibetan)==
+*[https://www.monlamdic.com/ NEW Monlam Dictionary] (2022)
 *[https://read.84000.co/glossary/search.html 84000 Online glossaries of Tibetan and Sanskrit terms]
 *[http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/Main_Page Rangjung Yeshe Dharma Dictionary and Lotsawa Workbench]: Tibetan-English dictionary, dharma glossaries, and resources.
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 *[http://www.kalacakra.org/index.htm Kālacakra - A knowledge base about topics related to the Kālacakra Tantra]
 *[https://religiondatabase.org/browse/ The Database of Religious History (University of British Columbia)]
+*[https://library.chogyamtrungpa.com/ Chogyam Trungpa Digital Library]
+*[http://monastic-asia.wikidot.com/ Mapping Buddhist Monasteries 200-1200 CE Project]
 ==History, Society and Culture==
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 *[https://www.tibetarchaeology.com/ Tibet Archeology (John Vincent Bellezza)]
 *[https://buddhistroad.ceres.rub.de/en/publications/ ERC Research Project BuddhistRoad (University of Bochum)]
+*[https://ladakharchaeology.com/ Ladakh Archeology]
 ==Tibetan Astrology==
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 *[https://mbingenheimer.net/tools/bibls/germanIntro.html Buddhist studies monographs published in German, Austrian and Swiss series]
 *[https://read.84000.co/section/LOBBY.html Catalogue of the Kangyur and Tengyur with English translations]
+*[https://www.sinibridge.org/encyclopedia/ The Kagyur Karchag Encyclopedia Project (Sarnath International Nyingma Institute)]
 *[http://faculty.washington.edu/kpotter/xhome.htm Bibliography of Indian Philosophies]
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 **[http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/journals/ebhr/ European Bulletin of Himalayan Research]
 **[http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/journals/ret/index.php Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines]
+**[https://www.journaloftibetanliterature.org/index.php/jtl Journal of Tibetan Literature]
+**[https://tibetanperiodicals.wordpress.com/about/ Database of Tibetan Periodicals (Franz Xaver Erhard)]
 *Journals publishing articles on Buddhism
 **[http://www.buddhistphilosophy.net/ Journal of Buddhist Philosophy]
+**[https://www.springer.com/journal/10781 Journal of Indian Philosophy]
 **[http://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?url=journal&journal_code=JIABS The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies]
 **[http://indica-et-buddhica.org/tabulae Journals of Buddhist Studies (Indica et Buddhica)]
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 **[http://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/cjbs Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies]
 **[http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcbh20/current#.U0nmfOaSz1s Contemporary Buddhism]
-**[http://web.otani.ac.jp/EBS/about.html Eastern Buddhist]
+**[https://ebs.otani.ac.jp/journal.html The Eastern Buddhist]
 **[https://buddhadharma.co/Journal-of-the-Centre-for-Buddhist-Studies Journal of Buddhist Studies (Journal of the Centre for Buddhist Studies, Sri Lanka)]
 **[http://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/AA11847631 Higashi ajia bukkyō kenkyū]
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 **[https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/JGBT/index Journal of Gandhāran Buddhist Texts]
 **[https://asia.si.edu/research/ars-orientalis/ Ars Orientalis]
+**[https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/51102 Journal of Chinese Religions]
 =Buddhist Translation projects=
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 **[https://www.windhorsepublications.com/ Windhorse Publications]
 **[http://www.yogi-ling.net/Editions/editionyogiling.htm Éditions Yogi Ling]
+**[https://www.cari-saddharmapundarika.com/philosophica Chuo Academic Research Institute (CARI) of Rissho Kosei-kai (RK)]
 *E-texts publishers
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 *[https://atiyogafoundation.org/ Atiyoga Foundation - Preserving the cultural heritage of professor Namkhai Norbu]
 *[https://www.sinibridge.org/ Sarnath International Nyingma Institute]
+*[https://www.institutvajrayogini.fr/ Institut Vajra Yogini (France)]
+*[https://www.palpung.org.uk/ Palpung Changchub Dargyeling (UK)]
 =Academic Publishers=
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 *[https://frogbear.org/publications/project-related-book-series-and-journals/hualin-series-on-buddhist-studies/ World Scholastic Publishers - Hualin Series on Buddhist Studies]
 *[https://www.aup.nl/en/search?openAccess=1 Amsterdam University Press (open access books)]
+*[http://www.orientalstudies.ru/eng/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=3456 St Petersburg Institute of Oriental Manuscripts]
 =Academic Institutions=
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 **[https://www.buddhism.hku.hk/contact.htm Center of Buddhist Studies (University of Hong Kong)]
 **[http://nibs.com.np/nibs/ Nagarjuna Institute of Buddhist Studies (NIBS)]
+**[https://buddhadharma.co/ Buddha-Dharma Centre of Hong Kong]
 *Australia
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 **[http://www.bristol.ac.uk/religion/buddhist-centre/ The Centre for Buddhist Studies (University of Bristol)]
 **[https://stb.univie.ac.at/ Institute for South Asian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies (University of Vienna)]
+=Online Lectures and Podcasts=
+*[https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1618056262 Tibetan Graduate Studies Seminar (Oxford University)]
 =Magazines=
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 *Machine Translation
 **[https://www.bing.com/translator?to=en&setlang=bo Microsoft Bing's Translator (Tibetan is included in the list of available languages)]
+**[https://monlam.ai/translation Monlam.ai (Artificial intelligence in service of Tibetan language and culture)]
 *Text Analysis

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