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    Academic study resources

    Resources of an academic nature.

    Buddhist databases & input projects

    General

    • Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project
      Study, editing, and publication of what may be the oldest surviving Buddhist texts–a unique collection of fifty-seven fragments of Buddhist manuscripts on birch bark scrolls, written in the Kharosthi script and the Gandhari (Prakrit) language in the first century A.D.
    • Electronic Buddhadharma Society (EBS)
    • Electronic Buddhist Text Initiative (EBTI)
    • Buddhist Canon Translation Project (Numata Center)
    • Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library

    Pali and Pali Canon

    • Access to Insight
      Many excellent translations of the Pali Canon
    • Andy's Pali Page
    • Buddhist Scripture Information Retrieval (BUDSIR)
      Digial Tipitaka and Atthakatha. The Siamratha version of the Pali Tipitaka.
    • Dhammakaya Foundation - Pali Tipitaka
    • International Buddhist Research & Information Center (IBRIC)
    • Pali Language Sources & Resources
    • Pali language resources
    • Pali Text Society
    • Sri Lanka Tripitaka Project
    • Vipassana Research Institute – Tipitaka search engine
    • The Pali Tipitaka: The Teachings of the Buddha

    Tibetan

    • Asian Classics Input Project
    • The Kangyur Text Input Project

     

    Buddhist Studies Academic Resources

    • Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library [AU].

    • Barre Center for Buddhist Studies [Barre MA].

    • Buddhist Studies at UC Berkeley.

    • Buddhapia Network [Korea] - Korean Buddhism, in English and Korean.

    • Buddhism in the National Capital of Canada [Ottawa ON].

    • Buddhism in Vietnam.

    • Buddhist Association at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

    • Buddhist Library [Singapore].

    • Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library [AU].

    • Buddhist Worlds in the USA [Hamilton College].

    • Center for Buddhist Studies [National Taiwan University].

    • Centre for Buddhist Studies [University of Bristol].

    • Centre of Buddhist Studies [University of Hong Kong].

    • Dharma Realm Buddhist University [Sagely City of 10,000 Buddhas, CA].

    • Digital Dictionary of Buddhist Terms, by Charles Muller.

    • Dr. Ron Epstein's Home Page.

    • European Buddhist University [Paris, France] - founded in 1995 by French Buddhists to promote Buddhist studies in France and Europe.

    • Links of Interest to Resources for Buddhist Studies [UCLA International Institute]

    • Graduate Programs in Asian Philosophy and Religion.

    • Harvard Buddhist Community.

    • International Association of Buddhist Studies [U. North Carolina, Wilmington NC] - a non-profit international professional organization devoted to the academic study of Buddhism in all its manifestations and from any disciplinary perspective.

    • International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism (IRIZ) [Hanazono U - Kyoto Japan] - an academic research institution devoted to the study of Zen Buddhism serving the needs of researchers, students, teachers, and practitioners of Buddhism, plus electronic tools -- such as a 48,000 character Chinese character database.

    • Kalavinka Dharma Jewels Buddhist Translation Archive [Portland OR] - Original translations & links to other translations on the Web.

    • Le Bouddhisme Theravada.

    • Naropa University [Boulder CO] - started by Ven. Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche. It offers Bachelors and Masters Degrees including a Bachelors Degree in Religion, and a Master's in Buddhist Studies.

    • National Taiwan University Digital Library & Museum of Buddhist Studies.

    • Numata Center for Buddhist Translation & Research (Berkeley CA).

    • Resources for the Study of Buddhism [San Francisco State University].

    • Resources for East Asian Language and Thought.

    • South Asia Resource Access on the Internet (SARAI).

    • Tibetan Studies WWW Virtual Library [AU].

    • UK Association for Buddhist Studies [UK] - lists members' postal addresses, telephone/fax numbers, E-mail addresses, research interests, and publications. It also gives details of UK courses relating to Buddhism, contains links to other web-sites and gives information on useful discussion lists.

    • Zen Buddhism WWW Virtual Library [AU].