Tibetan Computer Reference

Dictionaries and Language Resources

Buddhist Texts: Searches, Repositories, and Translations

Bibliographies

Journals

Blogs & Forums

Publishers of Tibetan Buddhist Works

Translation Group Websites

Other Useful Digital Resources

Tibetan Computer Reference     Up

Digital Tibetan
An extensive online resource for Tibetan dharma technology
http://digitaltibetan.org/index.php/Digital_Tibetan

The Tibetan and Himalayan Library
Information on Tibetan fonts
http://www.thlib.org/tools/#wiki=/access/wiki/site/26a34146-33a6-48ce-001e-f16ce7908a6a/home.html

Qomolangma Tibetan Unicode Fonts
http://www.yalasoo.com/English/docs/yalasoo_en_qomolangma_fonts.html

Nitartha International Sambhota Tibetan Fonts
http://www.nitartha.net/sambhota4.html

 

Dictionaries and Language Resources     Up

Steinert Online Tibetan Dictionary and App
Allows search of most available dictionaries in a pleasing online format
http://dictionary.christian-steinert.de/#home

NEW Monlam Dictionary Online
The most extensive Tibetan dictionary ever created
https://www.monlamdic.com/

GoldenDict
Online and offline Tibetan dictionaries combined
http://digitaltibetan.org/index.php/GoldenDict_-_online_and_offline_Tibetan_dictionaries_combined

THL Tibetan to English Translation Tool
http://www.thlib.org/reference/dictionaries/tibetan-dictionary/translate.php

THL’s Online Tibetan Transliteration Converter
Convert Wylie to Unicode Tibetan.
http://www.thlib.org/reference/transliteration/wyconverter.php

THL’s Online Tibetan Phonetics Converter
Tibetan or Wylie to Phonetics Converter.
http://www.thlib.org/reference/transliteration/phconverter.php

Dharma Dictionary
Tibetan-English dictionary, dharma glossaries, and resources.
http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/Main_Page

Glossaries for Buddhist Studies
http://buddhistinformatics.ddbc.edu.tw/glossaries/glossaries.php

Digital Dictionaries of South Asia – Sanskrit Dictionary
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/macdonell/

THL Tibetan Historical Dictionary
http://dictionary.thlib.org/#iframe=http://www.thlib.org/reference/dictionaries/tibetan-dictionary &div_id=universal_navigation_content

Index for Spices in Tibetan Script
http://gernot-katzers-spice-pages.com/engl/spice_tibetan.html

Rigpa Shedra
An online encyclopedia of Tibetan Buddhism.
http://www.rigpawiki.org/

Esukhia
Tibetan Language Learning, Translation, and Research.
http://www.esukhia.org/

 

Buddhist Texts: Searches, Repositories, and Translations     Up

The Buddhist Canons Research Database
Kangyur and Tengyur search with links to available recensions in ACIP, TBRC and others.
http://www.aibs.columbia.edu/databases/login/index.php

Adarsha Online
Kangyur & Tengyur Search from Gyalwang Karmapa
https://adarsha.dharma-treasure.org/

Bibliotheca Polyglotta
A multilingual presentation of Buddhist literature sentence by sentence
https://www2.hf.uio.no/polyglotta/index.php?page=library&bid=2

The Tibetan & Himalayan Library
Tibetan Canon Catalogs at UVa’s Tibetan & Himalayan Library.
http://www.thlib.org/encyclopedias/literary/canons/kt/

Resources for Kanjur & Tanjur Studies at Universität Wien
Search titles of Kangyur texts in Tibetan, Sanskrit, or Mongolian.
https://www.istb.univie.ac.at/kanjur/rktsneu/sub/index.php

Buddhist Digital Resource Center
The largest archive of scanned PDFs of Tibetan texts.
http://tbrc.org/

Old Tibetan Documents Online
https://otdo.aa-ken.jp/

Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon
Sanskrit bibliography and manuscript archive
http://www.dsbcproject.org/

Asian Classics Input Project
ACIP Tibetan Digital Text for Kangyur and Tengyur
http://www.asianclassics.org/index.html

Classical Tibetan Knowledge
Archive and Study Resource from Central University of Tibetan Studies.
http://www.tibetan-knowledge.org/en_home.asp

Munchener DigitalisierungsZentrum Digitale Bibliothek
Scans of Tibetan Texts in Munich.
http://www.digital-collections.de/index.html?c=faecher_index&l=en&kl=368

Tibetan Bookstore
Get Tibetan Texts from Asia.
http://www.tibetanbookstore.org

Tibetbook.net
Another source for Tibetan texts from Asia.
http://tibetbook.net/en/

Sera Jey Rigzod Chenmo
https://www.serajeyrigzodchenmo.org/

Dharma Downloads
Library of Free Digital Tibetan Texts.
http://www.dharmadownload.net

Lotsawa House
Free Translations with Digital Tibetan Texts.
http://www.lotsawahouse.org

84000
Translations of texts from the Tibetan Kangyur.
http://84000.co/

Tibetan e Books
http://www.tibetanebook.com

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
http://www.sakyalibrary.com/home/index

Tibetan Newspapers from Anna Saw’s Research
An Overview of Historical Tibetan-language Newspapers
http://tibetannewspapers.org/

Burial Mounds of Central Tibet and TAR Toponym Search
The site search currently holds around 45,000 entries
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/tibetantumulustradition/tar-toponym-search/

 

Bibliographies     Up

H-Buddhism Bibliography Project
H-Buddhism’s truly massive bibliography project
https://www.zotero.org/groups/h-buddhism_bibliography_project

Bibliographies on Buddhism in Western Languages
Professor Bingenheimer’s work
http://mbingenheimer.net/tools/bibls/biblBibl.html

Bibliography of Indian Philosophies
http://faculty.washington.edu/kpotter/xhome.htm

 

Journals     Up

The Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies
http://www.thlib.org/collections/texts/jiats/

The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies
http://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?url=journal&journal_code=JIABS

Journal of Buddhist Philosophy
http://www.buddhistphilosophy.net/

Journals of Himalayan Studies
List of free e-journals
http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/journals/

The Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies
http://www.iijbs.org/

Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines
http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/journals/ret/index.php

Journal of Buddhist Ethics
http://blogs.dickinson.edu/buddhistethics/

Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies
http://www.jocbs.org/index.php/jocbs

ARIRIAB
http://iriab.soka.ac.jp/en/publication/aririab.html

The Buddhist Forum
http://www.shin-ibs.edu/publications/the-buddhist-forum/

Indica et Buddhica
http://indica-et-buddhica.org/tabulae

Bulletin of Tibetology
http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/journals/bot/

 

Blogs & Forums     Up

Lotsawa Forum
A useful email listserv for translators
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/lotsawaforum

Official forum from IATS
http://tibetanstudies.forumprod.com

Dan Martin’s blog
http://tibeto-logic.blogspot.com/ & – TibSkritDownloadLink (2021)

Sam van Schaik’s blog
http://earlytibet.com/

Dzogchen Wiki
Collection of encyclopedic entries on Dzogchen topics (in French)
http://www.wikidz.artremy.com/wiki/Accueil

Jean-Luc Achard Blog
Publications from Dr. Achard
https://khyungmkhar.blogspot.com/

 

Publishers of Tibetan Buddhist Works     Up

Shambhala Publications
http://www.shambhala.com/snowlion

Wisdom Publications
http://www.wisdompubs.org

Padmakara, France
http://www.padmakara.com

The American Institute of Buddhist Studies
http://www.aibs.columbia.edu/books.html

Rangjung Yeshe Publications
Oral teachings of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and his spiritual sons.
http://www.rangjung.com

WSTB, Vienna
https://www.istb.univie.ac.at/cgi-bin/wstb/wstb.cgi

IITBS Gmbh
http://www.tibetinstitut.de/

Institute of Tibetan Classics
http://www.tibetanclassics.org/

Library of Tibetan Works & Archives
http://tibetanlibrary.org/

Light of Berotsana
https://www.berotsana.org/

Vajra Publications, Nepal
http://vajrabookshop.com/

Tibetan e-Books
http://www.tibetanebook.com

Dharma e-Books from Gyalwang Karmapa
https://dharmaebooks.org/

Dharma e-Books from Tsadra Foundation and partners
http://dharmacloud.tsadra.org/

Translation Group Websites     Up

Padmakara Translation Group
http://www.songtsen.org/F/padmakara/apropos_comite.php

Institute of Tibetan Classics
http://www.tibetanclassics.org/

Dharmachakra Translation Committee
http://www.dharmachakra.net/

Drikung Kagyu Translaion Group
https://www.drikungtranslation.com

Nalanda Translation Committee
http://nalandatranslation.org/

Nitartha Translation Network
http://nalandatranslation.org/

American Institute of Buddhist Studies
http://www.aibs.columbia.edu/about.html

UMA Institute for Tibetan Studies
http://www.uma-tibet.org/

The International Buddhist Academy’s Chödung Karmo Translation Group
http://chodungkarmo.org/

Light of Berotsana Translation Group
http://www.berotsana.org/

Khyentse Vision Project
https://www.khyentsevision.org/

Nyingtik Project
https://www.longchennyingtik.org/

Rigpa Translations
http://www.rigpatranslations.org/

Berzin Archives and Translations
http://www.berzinarchives.com/

Padma Karpo Translation Committee
http://www.tibet.dk/pktc/

Tib Shelf
https://www.tibshelf.org/

 

Other Useful Digital Resources     Up

The Treasury of Lives. Biographies of Tibetan Masters
http://www.treasuryoflives.org/

Himalayan Art Resources
Largest educational resource for Himalayan Art and Iconography
http://www.himalayanart.org/