ACIP Signs New Contract with National Library of Mongolia
We are pleased to announce that on April 30, 2010, the Asian Classics Input Project signed a new three-year contract with the National Library of Mongolia. This co-operation will assure the digital preservation of the great Tibetan Buddhist manuscripts housed in the Library. ACIP is also creating a digital catalog of the Library's complete collection of Tibetan Buddhist manuscripts.
Chilaajav Haidav, the new director of the National Library of Mongolia is shown here with John Brady, executive director of The Asian Classics Input Project.
ACIP and TBRC announce cooperative agreement
The Asian Classics Input Project (ACIP) and the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center(TBRC) have negotiated a cooperation agreement to share scanned and digital resources for the greater good of both of the communities that they serve.
ACIP is making available some of the materials it is scanning in Mongolia and elsewhere for inclusion in the TBRC digital library. It will also make available some of its digital input to enhance the searchability of the scanned images found in the TBRC digital library. TBRC will assist ACIP in cataloging its materials through this linkage and in identifying other materials to which TBRC and ACIP have access which should be input in ACIP's centers and which should be digitally photographed.
Priority will be given to materials useful to translators and for canonical and historical scholarship. The first concrete examples of this collaboration will be working together on the encyclopedic work of Longdol Lama Ngawang Lobzang, the collected works of Chahar Geshe Lozang Tsultrim including his great biography of Tsongkhapa, and the collected works of Ching Sujugthu Lozang Norbu Sherab, and Changlung Pandita Ngawang Lozang Tenpai Gyaltsen. The cooperation will include the canon, rare yigcha material needed to preserve the scholastic tradition throughout the world, and on biographical material necessary for understanding the history of Tibetan Buddhism.
ACIP Announces Release 6
Dear Friend,
For over 20 years the Asian Classics Input Project has distributed freely digital versions of the magnificent works of the Tibetan culture.
We welcome you to ACIP's Release VI. This will be the largest collection ever distributed of over 6,000 titles of the Buddhist canon known as the Kangyur, Tengyur and Sungbum.
