Research Catalog

Title

Digital dharma : recovering wisdom / Dafna Zahavi Yachin and Arthur M. Fischman ; with the Buddhist Digital Resource Center.

Author

Yachin, Dafna

Publication

Somerville, MA : Wisdom Publications, [2022]

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Additional Authors

• Fischman, Arthur M.
• Buddhist Digital Resource Center, author.

Description

x, 247 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps; 32 cm

Summary

"A Mormon by birth, E. Gene Smith became the unlikely mastermind of an international effort to rescue, preserve, digitize, and provide free access to the vast Tibetan Buddhist canon, many volumes of which had been lost or damaged during China's Cultural Revolution. Digital Dharma provides readers with extraordinary access to life inside Buddhist monasteries, to the rituals of Tibetan Buddhism, and to the insights of some of the world's leading lamas and lineage holders. Through hundreds of photographs taken during Smith's journey, we meet monks, local "publishers," scholars, and dignitaries involved in the preservation movement to which he dedicated his life. Included as well is accompanying historical and cultural background, which provides a deeper understanding of Tibetan Buddhism and of Smith's truly epic achievement in preserving and disseminating its sacred canon"--

Subject

• Smith, E. Gene 1936-2010
• Archival materials > Digitization > Tibet Autonomous Region
• Archival materials > Conservation and restoration > Tibet Autonomous Region
• Buddhist sects > Tibet Autonomous Region
• Buddhism > Tibet Autonomous Region
• Buddhist literature, Tibetan
• Buddhist literature, Sanskrit
• Documents d'archives > Numérisation > Région autonome du Tibet
• Documents d'archives > Conservation et restauration > Région autonome du Tibet
• Sectes bouddhiques > Région autonome du Tibet
• Littérature bouddhique tibétaine
• Littérature bouddhique sanscrite
• Archival materials > Conservation and restoration
• Archival materials > Digitization
• Buddhism
• Buddhist sects
• China > Tibet Autonomous Region

Bibliography (note)

• Includes index.

Contents

Prologue / by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, Thubten Chökyi Gyamtso -- Matthieu Ricard Remembers Gene -- Introduction / by Dafna Yachin, director of Digital Dharma -- Delhi: "The Hub" -- The Road to Dharamsala -- The Treasure of the Himalayas -- Kathmandu: "Jewel and Gem" -- New York City "Headquarters" -- Return to India and Nepal -- Road to Lumbini: Birthplace of the Buddha -- Dheradun: City of Joy -- New York City: The Final Stop / by Dafna Yachin -- 2011: Chengdu, China -- Gene's Legacy: The Buddhist Digital Resource Center -- BDRC Librarians Remember Their Mentor, Gene -- Leonard van der Kuijp -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About the Authors.

ISBN

• 9781614297994
• 1614297991
• 9781614298212 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2021056449
• 40031491010

OCLC

• on1259049782
• 1259049782
• SCSB-14514565

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries