Click here to see a very useful list put together by Marcus Bingenheimer, last updated in February of 2009.
Author: Marcus Perman
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New Diacritic Fonts
John Smith has created upgraded versions of his “IndUni” OpenType fonts. These are Unicode-compliant fonts that contain a comprehensive set of “Indological” characters, as well as all the European characters that scholars are likely to need. They are available as freeware, and include high-quality lookalikes for Times, Palatino, New Century Schoolbook, Helvetica and Courier. Download them here.
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Sanskrit-Tibetan-Chinese-English Texts Available Online
The Thesaurus Literaturae Buddhicae (TLB) is a quadrilingual presentation of Buddhist literature sentence by sentence in Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan and English. See Bibliotheca Polyglotta. If that link does not function, paste this link in your browser: https://www2.hf.uio.no/polyglotta/index.php and click on the link to the Thesaurus Literaturae Buddhicae
So far these are the texts available:
Also note that there are new links posted on our Resources page (use link to the right). These additions include an excellent resource for Tibetan studies from Columbia University, translation work from Dan Martin, and the publications of the International Association for Buddhist Thought and Culture.
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Texts Now Available Online from Soka University Buddhology Institute
The publications of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University are available online:
I. Volume of Sanskrit manuscripts in the British Library:
http://iriab.soka.ac.jp/orc/Publications/BLSF/index_BLSF.htmlII. International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University monograph series:
http://iriab.soka.ac.jp/orc/Publications/BPPB/index_BPPB.htmlIII. International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University annual journal:
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TBRC Publishes New Blog
In case you didn’t get the memo, this is one of the new ways of interacting with the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center: http://blog.tbrc.org/. It will include new additions to the TBRC library, new publications, important technology projects, new work on medical literature and the Tibetan Buddhist canons project, new outlines, new biographical projects , new models, new partnerships and news about our organization.
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Lewis Lancaster on Buddhism’s "Portability"
Lewis Lancaster: Buddhism in a Global Age of Technology
This is really an interesting speech about Lancaster’s attempts to answer the question of what it is in the Buddhist tradition that lead it to become “the first world-religion.” That is, why did it spread so far and so well? To this he answers partially by discussing what he calls “portable sanctity” and “fixed sanctity.” He discusses translation right around 20:40 on the recording. He also discusses the “two most important problems of our time”: 1) cosmology and 2) causation, Buddhism in a digital age, and he makes some interesting statements about freedom of information and the internet. Although some of what he says is a bit off-target, most of what he says is very interesting and the speech is worth the time it takes to listen.
Here is the URL in case the above link breaks: http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.asp?showID=14331
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"New" Sanskrit Term Search Program
In case you did not see this post on H-Buddhism Net, or do not have access to that listserv, here’s the news:
I am pleased to announce a new service that is now available through the INDOLOGY website.
SARIT is a freely-available online facility that enables you to search through an online library of Sanskrit texts for keywords, word-collocations, and other linguistic strings. The system is based on the well-known ARTFL software, and is exceptionally powerful. It can handle many forms of query and output, including KWIC indexes. Your imagination is the limit.
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Kevin Vose’s New Book on Candrakīrti Available Today
Some of you may know Vose’s work from his dissertation (The Birth of Prasangika). Here are links to his book at Amazon and at Wisdom.
The book is titled Resurrecting Candrakirti: Disputes in the Tibetan Creation of Prasangika and wile I haven’t seen it yet, should be quality material. Kevin Vose is a professor of religious studies at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in Buddhist studies from the University of Virginia. His research examines the interplay of late-Indian and early-Tibetan Madhyamaka and the formation of Tibetan scholasticism.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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Tibetan eTexts Online
བོད་ཀྱི་རིག་མཛོད་དྲ་བ། features many eTexts in Tibetan. The page has selections from ལོ་རྒྱུས་ , སྒྲ་རིག་པ་ , གསོ་བ་རིག་པ་ , ཚད་མ་རིག་པ་, and many more. The page also features a list of new words entering the Tibetan language.
