Buddhist Digital Archives

INSTITUTION

Buddhist Digital Resource Center

ACCESS

open access

URL

https://www.bdrc.io/

DESCRIPTION

Buddhist Digital Archives (BUDA) is a collaborative platform developed by the Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC) providing open-source, open-access to Buddhist texts across multiple Asian languages. The platform contains vast collections of Tibetan Buddhist works alongside materials in Sanskrit, Chinese, Pāli, Burmese, and Khmer. BUDA represents one of the world's largest repositories of Tibetan Buddhist literature, with hundreds of thousands of scanned pages from canonical works, commentaries, ritual texts, historical documents, and philosophical treatises. The innovative platform features advanced search capabilities, image viewers for manuscript materials, text transcriptions where available, and metadata describing texts, persons, places, and topics. Resources come from BDRC's own digitization efforts and partner collections worldwide, including major monasteries, libraries, and private collections in the Himalayan region and beyond.

SOURCE LIST

ACLS Open Database Resource Guide

LAST MODIFIED

2026-01-16