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Electronic Resources for the Study of Buddhist Texts

This guide supports the scholarly study of Buddhist texts by providing links to primary textual sources and reference material. This includes links to electronic text sites and to linguistic tools such as online dictionaries. This guide also serves to provide a list of meta-level resources for Buddhist Studies. These provide classified and annotated gateways to other specific resources. This guide is a part of the Buddhist Studies World-Wide Web Virtual Library.


Alphabetical List of Selected Resources | Buddhist Studies - Meta-Level Sites | Chinese Buddhist Texts - Individual Sites | Electronic Buddhist Texts - Meta-Level Sites | Pali Canon | Pure Land Buddhist Texts - Meta-Level Sites | Tibetan Buddhist Texts - Meta-Level Sites | Tibetan Buddhist Texts - Individual Sites | Zen Texts - Individual Sites | Online Dictionaries | Fonts | Publishers and Specialist Booksellers |


Buddhist Studies - Meta-Level Sites

"Buddhism". BUBL LINK / 5:15 Catalogue of Internet Resources. http://bubl.ac.uk/link/b/buddhism.htm (29 Feb. 2000).

Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library: the Internet Guide to Buddhism and Buddhist Studies. 1994, last updated 10 Dec. 1999. http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Buddhism.html (29 Feb. 2000).

Tibetan Studies WWW Virtual Library: the Internet Guide to Tibetan Studies. 1995, last updated 26 Dec. 1999. http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-TibetanStudies.html (29 Feb. 2000).

Zen Buddhism WWW Virtual Library: The Internet Guide to Zen (Ch'an, Son, Thien) Online Resources. 1994, last updated 28 Feb 2000. http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Zen.html (2 Mar. 2000).

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Electronic Buddhist Texts - Meta-Level Sites

Digital Buddhist Library and Museum: Comprehensive Cyberspace for Buddhist Studies. http://sino-sv3.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/ (29 Feb. 2000).

The Electronic Buddhist Text Initiative. http://www.human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp/~acmuller/ebti.htm (29 Feb. 2000).

Patton, Charles, comp. "Buddhist Studies - Texts Input/Translation Projects". 1994, last updated 31 Aug. 1998. http://villa.lakes.com/cdpatton/ETexts.html (1 Mar. 2000).

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Chinese Buddhist Texts - Individual Sites

Association for Computerization of Buddhist Texts (ACBUT). Samganikikrtam Taisotripitakam: Machine-readable text-database of the Taisho Tripitaka (the Taisho Shinshu Daizokyo). 1998. http://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~sat/ (25 May 2000)

Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association (CBETA). http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/cbeta/ (25 May 2000).

Epstein, Ron, comp. Shurangama Sutra: Text, Commentaries, and Articles (Da Fo Ding Shou Leng Yan Jing. Taisho Tripitaka, No. 945). Last updated, 25 Mar. 2000. http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Buddhism/Shurangama/Shurangama.htm (25 May 2000).

Moro, Shigeki. Index of Electronic Buddhist Texts. 1999. Last updated, 29 Apr. 2000. http://www.ya.sakura.ne.jp/~moro/ebt_index/ (25 May 2000).

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Pali Canon

BUDSIR (Buddhist Scriptures Information Retrieval). 1995, last updated 5 Oct. 1999. http://www.mahidol.ac.th/budsir/ (14 Mar. 2000).

Sri Lanka Tripitaka Project. http://jbe.gold.ac.uk/palicanon.html (14 Mar. 2000).

Vipassana Research Institute. "The Chattha Sangayana Tipitaka". http://www.tipitaka.org/ (14 Mar. 2000).

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Pure Land Buddhist Texts - Meta-Level Sites

Pure-Land Buddhism WWW Virtual Library. http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/ethg/ducor/vlpl.htm (15 Oct 2001)

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Tibetan Buddhist Texts - Meta-Level Sites

Brassington, Leigh, comp. "Tibetan Text Preservation Projects". Last revised 16 Jun. 1999. http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/6774/tibetdb.htm (29 Feb. 2000).

The Electronic Buddhist Text Initiative. "Input Projects/Canonic and Text Databases: Tibetan-Mongolian". http://www.human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp/~acmuller/ebti/textinput.htm#tibetan-mongolian (15 Oct. 2000).

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Tibetan Buddhist Texts - Individual Sites

Asian Classics Input Project. http://www.asianclassics.org/ (31 Oct 2000).

McComas. The Bodhicaryavatara of Shantideva. http://cres.anu.edu.au/~mccomas/shantideva/ (31 Oct 2000).
McComas. The Thirty-seven Bodhisattva Practices by Acharya dNgol-chu Thogs-med bZang-po http://cres.anu.edu.au/~mccomas/bodhisattva/ (31 Oct 2000).

Nitartha International. http://www.nitartha.org/ (31 Oct 2000).

The Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library. http://faculty.virginia.edu/tibet-initiative/library/ (15 Oct 2001)

Tibetan Buddhist Resources Center. http://www.tbrc.org/ (31 Oct 2000).

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Zen Texts - Individual Sites

International Research Insitute for Zen Buddhism. "List of available IRIZ Zen Text Files". http://www.iijnet.or.jp/iriz/irizhtml/zentexts/cdtexts.htm (29 Feb. 2000).

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Online Buddhist Dictionaries

The Database for Buddhist Terminology. 1999, last Updated 6 Mar. 2000. http://www.buddhist-term.org/ (25 May 2000)

Muller, Charles. "Digital Dictionary of Buddhism". http://www.human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp/~acmuller/dicts/ddb-intro.htm (15 Oct 2001).

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Fonts

Nitartha International. Fonts for reading ACIP texts. http://www.nitartha.org/Technology/NI-Sambhota/ACIP/acip.html (31 Oct 2000).

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Publishers and Specialist Booksellers

Pali Text Society. http://www.palitext.demon.co.uk/ (14 Mar. 2000).

Wisdom Books. http://www.wisdombooks.org/ (13 Mar. 2000).

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Alphabetical List of Selected Resources

Asian Classics Input Project. http://acip.princeton.edu/
Association for Computerization of Buddhist Texts (ACBUT). Samganikikrtam Taisotripitakam: Machine-readable text-database of the Taisho Tripitaka (the Taisho Shinshu Daizokyo). http://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~sat/
Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library. http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Buddhism.html
BUDSIR (Buddhist Scriptures Information Retrieval). http://www.mahidol.ac.th/budsir/
Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association (CBETA). http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/cbeta/
The Database for Buddhist Terminology. 1999, last Updated 6 Mar. 2000. http://www.buddhist-term.org/
Digital Buddhist Library and Museum. http://sino-sv3.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/
The Electronic Buddhist Text Initiative. http://www.human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp/~acmuller/ebti.htm
Epstein, Ron, comp. Shurangama Sutra: Text, Commentaries, and Articles (Da Fo Ding Shou Leng Yan Jing. Taisho Tripitaka, No. 945). http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Buddhism/Shurangama/Shurangama.htm
International Research Insitute for Zen Buddhism. "List of available IRIZ Zen Text Files". http://www.iijnet.or.jp/iriz/irizhtml/zentexts/cdtexts.htm
McComas. The Bodhicaryavatara of Shantideva. http://cres.anu.edu.au/~mccomas/shantideva/
McComas. The Thirty-seven Bodhisattva Practices by Acharya dNgol-chu Thogs-med bZang-po http://cres.anu.edu.au/~mccomas/bodhisattva/
Moro, Shigeki. Index of Electronic Buddhist Texts. http://www.ya.sakura.ne.jp/~moro/ebt_index/
Muller, Charles. "Digital Dictionary of Buddhism". http://www.human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp/~acmuller/dicts/ddb-intro.htm
Nitartha International. http://www.nitartha.org/
Pali Text Society. http://www.palitext.demon.co.uk/
Patton, Charles, comp. "Buddhist Studies - Texts Input/Translation Projects". http://villa.lakes.com/cdpatton/ETexts.html
Pure-Land Buddhism WWW Virtual Library. http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/ethg/ducor/vlpl.htm
Sri Lanka Tripitaka Project.http://jbe.gold.ac.uk/palicanon.html
The Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library. http://faculty.virginia.edu/tibet-initiative/library/ (15 Oct 2001)

Tibetan Buddhist Resources Center. http://www.tbrc.org/
Tibetan Studies WWW Virtual Library. http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-TibetanStudies.html
Vipassana Research Institute. "The Chattha Sangayana Tipitaka". http://www.tipitaka.org/
Wisdom Books. http://www.wisdombooks.org/
Zen Buddhism WWW Virtual Library. http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Zen.html

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