Buddhist Digital Resource Center

The Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC), formerly Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC), is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to seeking out, preserving, organizing, and disseminating Buddhist literature. Using state-of-the art technology, the Buddhist Digital Resource Center is the leader in the field of digital preservation of Buddhist texts, working with local partners to provide free access for the global community.

The Buddhist Digital Resource Center is the largest online archive of Tibetan and Buddhist texts in the world, and provides open access to this incredible body of literature via an online library, a mobile app, and hard drive distribution programs.

Founded in 1999 by E. Gene Smith with a group of Buddhist scholars, BDRC hosts a digital library of the largest collection of digitized Tibetan texts in the world. Current programs focus on the preservation of texts in Pali, Chinese, Sanskrit, and Tibetan. BDRC maintains the Buddhist Digital Archives (BUDA), an online resource of 30 million pages of scanned texts and 5 million etexts.

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