Všeobecné zrcadlo digitální Asie

Digital Himalaya is a project to develop digital collection, storage, and distribution strategies for multimedia anthropological and ethnographical information from the Himalayan region. Digital collections feature different media, including visual and audio collections, covering the geographical areas and ethnic populations of the Himalayas; issues of Himalayan journals; maps; and bird reports from Nepal.

RelBib is an online open access bibliography for the study of religion. It represents a special view of the underlying data pool of IxTheo (Index Theologicus) using a discovery system VuFind.

We would like to share this collection of splendid murals with as many fellow enthusiasts, students, scholars, and travellers, as possible. The aim of this documentation is not only to provide a tool for further research on South Indian painting, but mainly to make the art world aware of this endangered cultural heritage and to encourage not only scholarship, but also restoration and conservation works.

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.

Searchable collection of Indo-Tibetan texts, authors, places, and maps from the catalogue of Cambridge University.

The SRC is a web application for Tibetan historical and literary research. It is designed as an open online platform and reference system and is based on a corpus of machine-readable digital texts in Tibetan that are embedded in an interlinked, relational database. The resource has grown into a large repository of Tibetan digital texts, historical references, images and geo-data. Data is entered and processed by a group of Tibetan-language scholars and Western Tibetologists. The database holds a considerable amount of additional literature, including standard works of Tibetan historiographical literature, as well as numerous genealogies, hagiographies, teaching records and religious histories related especially to the Sakya sect of Tibetan Buddhism. Digital texts are encoded in XML following the guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI); they are fully searchable and linked to other entities in the database.

The repository "bodleian/karchak-mss" contains underlying XML files for the catalogue of Tibetan Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford. - "collections" contains the TEI P5 manuscript description files - "processing" contains any scripts to convert or process them - "working" contains the working files before and after conversion

A catalogue of Tibetan Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries (Oxford). Includes indexes of authors and subjects.

Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IOM RAS). Its collection of manuscripts and xylographs consists of more than 100 thousand items in 65 living and dead languages such as Abyssinian (Ethiopian), Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, Hebrew, Chinese, Korean, Kurdish, Manchurian, Mongolian, Persian and Tajik, Sanskrit and Sogdian, Turkic, Tangut, Tibetan, Uigur, Japanese, etc. The IOM has also the Archives of the Orientalists that contains some extremely valuable documents on the history of the Oriental Studies in Russia. The Institute possesses a specialized library of books, exceeding 800 thousand volumes, on various branches of Oriental studies. The collection of books in languages of the peoples of the former USSR especially those issued in the 30s is also of a great value. The Institute runs doctoral programs. Its Dissertation Council has the right to consider PhD and Habilitation theses written in the area of history and source criticism.

Resources for Kanjur & Tanjur Studies (rKTs) is dedicated to making research on Tibetan Buddhist canonical collections openly accessible. The website provides comprehensive tools for studying canonical literature in more than 50 Kanjurs and manuscript collections, such as online catalogues, searchable e-texts, and an extensive archive of images of Tibetan manuscripts as well as secondary sources. The various databases are compiled and maintained by the members of the Tibetan Manuscripts Project Vienna (TMPV), located at the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna. For enquiries about individual collections or questions of a more general nature, please use the contact page.

CrossAsia offers access to specialized information from the entire spectrum of humanities and social sciences from and about Asia. CrossAsia supports the Asia-related studies in research and teaching in Germany and beyond. It has developed outstanding, partly unique services for Asia-related research. Examples include the steadily growing set of licensed full-text databases with nationwide remote access; the CrossAsia Search, which, in addition to its own printed and electronic holdings, provides central access to Asia-related original-language bibliographic records in catalogues of national and international libraries; a full-text search which searches in the data pool of the Integrated Text Repository (ITR) with full-texts extracted from licensed databases; and Open Access E-Publishing services for eJournals, eBooks, and electronic primary and secondary publications. The CrossAsia portal was designed as a central access point for scientific information in the Asia-related studies. The portal has been set up by Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Together with Heidelberg University Library and the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin runs the Specialised Information Service on Asia (Fachinformationsdienst Asien), which provides significant impetus for the development of the CrossAsia portal. On the CrossAsia website, Thematic Portals include Manchu Collection; "Bibliothek Otsuka“ – the Ōtsuka collection; Berlin-Krakow Project; Fung Asseng and Fung Ahok; Chagatai manuscripts (The Hartmann Collection); Chinese Medical Manuscripts; Travels in Southwest China; Japanese Students in Germany; Naval Kishore Press; and Odisha Bibliography. Digital collections include: the East Asia Collection; the Southeast Asia Collection; Berlin-Krakow Project; Qianlong’s “Battle Copper Prints;” Historical Mongolian Maps; Lao Manuscripts; Northern Thai Manuscripts; Literature on South Asia; Slide collection Sontheimer; Early Bengali Literature; and Documenta Nepalica.

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.

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.

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 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 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 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.