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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

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: 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

Dictionaries (Tibetan)

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

Dictionaries (Sanskrit)

Dictionaries (Gāndhārī)

Gāndhārī Dictionary

Dictionaries (Pali)

Dictionaries of South Asia – Pali Dictionary

Dictionaries (Chinese)

Dictionaries (Multilingual)

Searchable Glossaries (Tsadra DRL)

Dictionaries (Specialized glossaries)

Encyclopedias & Databases

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.
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

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 Astrology

Maps of Tibet

Tibetan Art

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)

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)

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

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 Group Websites

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

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
Study Buddhism - Alexander Berzin
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

Academic Publishers

Academic Institutions

Asia

Australia
- Nan Tien Institute of Higher Education

North America

Europe

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
Dan Martin’s blog
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

Computer Reference (Tibetan & Sanskrit)

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

Fonts (Tibetan)

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

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 *[http://chodungkarmo.org/ The International Buddhist Academy’s Chödung Karmo Translation Group]
 *[http://www.berotsana.org/ Light of Berotsana Translation Group]
-*[https://tibetantranslations.com/ Trikāya Translations]
+*[https://tibetantranslations.com/ The Sugatagarbha Translation Group]
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 *[https://maitripa.org/ Maitripa College (Portland)]
 *[https://www.thebuddhistsociety.org/page/home The Buddhist Society]
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Buddhist Texts: Searches & Repositories

Buddhist Texts (Tibetan)

Buddhist Texts (Old Tibetan)

Buddhist Texts (Chinese)

Buddhist Texts (Sanskrit)

Buddhist Texts (Pali)

Buddhist Texts (Gāndhārī)

Buddhist Texts (Multilingual)

Dictionaries

Dictionaries (Tibetan)

Dictionaries (Sanskrit)

Dictionaries (Gāndhārī)

Dictionaries (Pali)

Dictionaries (Chinese)

Dictionaries (Multilingual)

Dictionaries (Specialized glossaries)

Encyclopedias & Databases

Buddhism

History, Society and Culture

Tibetan Astrology

Maps of Tibet

Tibetan Art

Theravada, Indian and Chinese Buddhism

Tibetan Language Resources

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Dissertations

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Buddhist Translation projects

Translation Group Websites

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