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Bibliographic Database on Tibet: 40000 entries
Karma dgon Tibetan Bibliography Database by Erwan Temple In case you were not aware of the existence of this wonderful resource, please take the time to sign up for a free account here: http://www.bibliographietibet.org/
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Some Reflections on the Recent Translators’ Conference 2008 in Bir
Just before leaving India, several weeks after the conference at Bir, John and I met Eric, Elizabeth and Marcus in Delhi. We exchanged views about the conference and I mentioned a memorandum I had…
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Find Tibetan, Chinese, Sanskrit and Pali parallel texts
SuttaCentral allows for searches between Chinese, Tibetan, and sanskrit “parallels” and “counterparts” to the suttas of the four main Pali Nikayas. You may want to see their help page before searching through the database.…
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Conference of Translators 2008 Videos Online
In case you want to see any of these again, videos of Alak Zenkar Rinpoche, Jeffrey Hopkins and others are available for viewing on the Light of Berotsana site: http://berotsana.org/conference/videos.html
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Digital Archives from Dharma Drum Buddhist College
The Dharma Drum Buddhist College website provides many interesting resources, some of which are accessible in English. (If you click on the link above, don’t be discouraged if you can’t read Chinese, just scroll…
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Bibliography of Translations from the Chinese Buddhist Canon into Western Languages
Click here to see a very useful list put together by Marcus Bingenheimer, last updated in February of 2009. Dr. Bingenheimer’s CV.
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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…
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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:…
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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.html II. International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University…