Research library of scanned Tibetan literature
Subtitle: approximately 12,000 volumes of Tibetan texts.
Contributors: Smith, E. Gene 1936-; Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center.
Publisher: Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center at the Rubin Museum of Art
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: tib
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Buddhist literature, Tibetan; Buddhism -- China -- Tibet; Tibetan literature; Tibet (China) -- Religion
Other titles: Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center digital collections
Description: Contains approximately12,000 volumes of scanned Tibetan literature, primarily Buddhist, arranged in 12 tranches (e.g, segments) supplied on external hard drive(s).  Each tranche is a collection of roughly 1,000 volumes from the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center holdings compiled by E. Gene Smith.  Each tranche contains a keyword-seachable table of contents and provides titles in Tibetan script and in transliteration in the  Extended Wylie system.  E. Gene Smith provided each title with biographical, historical, and subject information in English. Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center work numbers are given for accessing the digitized texts.  A reference to the Library of Congress control number for the original printed texts is also given, when available.
Notes: Title from publisher's message.

System requirments will vary as external hard drives are received and/or replaced. Software requirements include the ability to view the following types of files:  TIFF files, PDF files, MS-Excell spreadsheets, and MS-Word documents.

Gift Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center 2006.

Texts chiefly in Tibetan, with some in English; some texts translated from Sanskrit.