The Center for Research on Tibet at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) was founded in 1987. Our goal is to conceptualize and conduct research on Tibetan history, society, language, ecology/physiology and culture so as to understand traditional Tibet and the manner in which it has changed. The Center is housed in Mather Memorial Building at Case Western Reserve University, and is administratively under the Department of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences. Drs. Melvyn C. Goldstein (the John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology) and Cynthia M. Beall (the Sarah Idell Pyle Professor of Anthropology) are its co-Directors. From the beginning, the Center has maintained a collaborative relationship with the Tibet Academy of Social Sciences (TASS) in Lhasa, and has undertaken a wide range of research projects on different aspects of present and past Tibet with the cooperation of TASS. Since 1988, the Center has hosted eight scholars from TASS for periods ranging from 6 months to one year. Two young Tibetan researchers from TASS have received Masters of Arts degrees in Anthropology (1988 and 2003), while another Tibetan student earned a Doctorate of Philosophy in 2001. At present, the Center has expanded its "research" goal by adding a commitment to preserve and organize its unique corpus of primary data in a way that will make it readily available to students, scholars and Tibetans globally. With support from The Henry Luce Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, we are in the process of creating a major online archive that will include, initially, 700-1,000 hours of taped interviews and their English translations. These will all be indexed and searchable through keywords. Almost all of the interviewees are Tibetans, a small but important sub-set are Chinese military and civil officials who worked in Tibet. This unique corpus of interviews covers three major areas: modern Tibetan history, the traditional social and economic life in Drepung (Tibet's largest monastery in the traditional period), and the oral history of the lives of common rural and urban Tibetans. The period for the oral history interviews spans from the pre-Chinese period to the end of the Cultural Revolution. Donations to help support the Tibet Oral History Archive are most welcome, and should be sent to Case Western Reserve University, College of Arts and Sciences, The Center for Research on Tibet (Oral History Archive), Cleveland, Ohio 44106. All donations are tax deductible. For more details on the Oral History Project see that section of this website.

The Dharma Farm carries on the training we received at Jeffrey Hopkins' famed Tibetan program at the University of Virginia in Tibetan and Sanskrit translating Tibetan works about the Buddhist philosophy of liberation. We believe accurate translation rests on understanding the underlying grammar and syntax. The Dharma Farm is a free on-line Tibetan language translation school founded in 2020 in Oregon as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization. Our focus is preparing translators with the linguistic skills and philosophical background necessary for translating Tibetan works on Buddhist philosophy. Dharma Farm students are a global community, both monastics and lay people, who wish to develop the skills necessary for translating Tibetan Buddhist philosophical works.

Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) is the most comprehensive Western-language bibliographical database for research on East, Southeast and South Asia. Published by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), it covers all subjects with special focus on the humanities and social sciences. This bibliography is intended for students and scholars interested in any aspect, discipline or sub-region of Asia. Through its extensive bibliographical coverage, it is an excellent means for discovering citations and the full-text of Western-language journal articles, review articles, conference proceedings and chapters in edited volumes and Festschriften published anywhere in the world that deal with East, Southeast and South Asia and with the overseas Asian communities. Content Includes - Over 900,000 citations, dating primarily from 1971 onwards, with more than 400,000 citations since 1992 - All entries are easily searchable by author, title, year of publication, place of publication, language of publication, journal title, country, subject, keyword, ISSN and ISBN - Coverage of many important journals as well as chapters in edited volumes including publications from Asia that are not indexed elsewhere - Unique index access to the contents of edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, Festschriften and similar publications - Content is indexed according to relevant subject fields for easy and effective searching - Includes the full content of the printed volumes of the annual Bibliography of Asian Studies dating back to 1971 A Valuable Resource for Asian Studies Several hundred journals that focus on Asia are indexed in the BAS. Many of the more important ones are promptly indexed once they become available. Articles on Asia-related topics from selected journals that do not deal primarily with Asia also are included. In addition, some special projects – among them one that focused on journals on Southeast Asia dating as far back as 1779 – have contributed further records to the BAS database.

The Treasury of Lives (TOL) is a biographical encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalaya. Most biographies are peer reviewed. Maps, images, and other resources are available too, covering vast amount of Buddhist traditions and even biographies of lay people (soldiers, writers or politicians). Most of the content is open access, yet a subscription is available as well.

The Buddhist Digital Archives (BUDA) by the Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC). A cooperative platform for expanding access to Buddhist literature. Explore the millions of pages of texts contributed by BDRC and its many partners.

This Zenodo community hosts deposits of data and code related to Tibetan natural language processing. The collection is curated but anybody can submit their corpus or other data.

The Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC, formerly TBRC) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to seeking out, preserving, documenting, and disseminating Buddhist literature. We provide scholars, translators, Buddhist practitioners, and the general public with access to an unparalleled collection of Buddhist texts. Joining digital technology with scholarship, BDRC ensures that the cultural treasures of 
the Buddhist literary tradition are secure and accessible for generations to come. Founded in 1999 by E. Gene Smith, BDRC is mainly located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Current programs mostly focus on the preservation of texts in Pali, Chinese, Sanskrit, and Tibetan.

The Big Data Studies Lab at Seoul National University pursues experimental research that rethinks the role of the humanities in the Zettabyte era. How do we handle sources distributed across millions of servers? Or digital artifacts that increasingly take the form of audiovisual content, 3D point clouds, and holograms? Our search for the new normal in the humanities is supported by the Innovative and Pioneering Research Scheme from Seoul National University, with $600,000 USD of seed funding committed to it for nine years (2019-2028). Our lab strives for a global and balanced understanding of big data from a humanities perspective. Our international team conducts research using English, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Danish, and Norwegian sources. Our lab expects the highest standard of research with a strong emphasis on technological literacy and methodological rigor. Our objective is not to engage in hasty theorization but to demonstrate our arguments empirically via experiments and field research. We meticulously check every fact, report, whitepaper, and data set cited in our published papers and blog posts, and we provide corrections upon discovering any errors or misleading information.

The Tibetan and Himalayan Library (THL) is a publisher of websites, information services, and networking facilities relating to the Tibetan plateau and southern Himalayan regions. THL promotes the integration of knowledge and community across the divides of academic disciplines, the historical and the contemporary, the religious and the secular, the global and the local. In addition to more typical academic projects, THL promotes participatory knowledge that is created by and benefits local communities, while including contributors from all walks of life around the world. Data includes text, audio-video, images, maps, immersive objects, reference works, and interpretative essays. THL’s knowledge and technology are provided free of charge, and are built collaboratively by hundreds of people across the world who share this vision. We also have sister initiatives built by and for the communities in this region – the Tibetan Digital Library and the Bhutan National Digital Library. Explore our websites and services, and consider joining us as active participants.