BUDDHIST DIGITAL RESOURCE CENTER
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Mission Statement
The Buddhist Digital Resource Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that preserves Buddhist literature for the world. Joining digital technology with scholarship, BDRC seeks out, preserves, organizes, and disseminates cultural treasures of the Buddhist literary tradition, thereby ensuring that this ancient wisdom is not lost, but is made freely available for future generations.
About This Cause
The Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC) is the leading Buddhist text preservation organization. BDRC preserves and digitizes Buddhist writings in the original Asian languages and makes them freely available worldwide. E. Gene Smith (1936-2010), the foremost American authority on Tibetan literature and history in the 20th century, dreamed of accelerating the preservation and accessibility of ancient Buddhist texts through digital technology. He founded the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC) in 1999 to realize this vision. Guided by Gene Smith’s unique vision, BDRC has raised the once critically endangered Tibetan literary corpus to a high level of preservation. Today, the library is a crucial resource for Tibetan studies, relied on by a global community of academic scholars, religious leaders, translators, Tibetan scholars, publishers, and the interested public. In 2015, at the request of its Board of Directors, partners, and collaborators in the field of Buddhist studies, the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center expanded its mission and, in 2016, officially became the Buddhist Digital Resource Center. In addition to continuing the work started by E. Gene Smith, BDRC is now tasked with preserving and disseminating all Buddhist literary traditions that remain endangered due to precarious social and environmental factors. BDRC applies the technological expertise and scholarly resources it has cultivated for over two decades to this most pressing task. Since its founding, BDRC has located, digitized, cataloged, and archived over 35 million pages of culturally significant Buddhist works. BDRC stores the works in its secure archive, built to ensure that the texts remain free and accessible to the public into the indefinite future. Every year, thousands of people visit our site to access Buddhist writings from every tradition and in all the major canonical languages. As technology moves forward, BDRC’s mission remains grounded in traditional wisdom. We are preserving the Dharma in its authentic form, whilst also operating on the cutting edge of the digital humanities to constantly improve and expand our resources. The generosity and integrity of our donors makes this possible.