New Grant from Khyentse Foundation
A team of ACIP staff is departing for Outer Mongolia. Funded by a generous grant from Khyentse Foundation, they will continue the big job of cataloging and scanning the enormous collection of Tibetan Buddhist woodblock prints in the possession of the National Library of Mongolia in Ulan Baatar.
ACIP began the process of cataloging the Library’s collection in 2006, and we are delighted to have the opportunity to pick up this important project once again. The National Library has one of the largest and most important collections of uncatalogued Buddhist works in the world. This time around, we will be working in close conjunction with the Buddhist Digital Resource Center (formerly the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center). We are excited to begin the work, and look forward to a rich and mutually-beneficial relationship with BDRC and Khyentse Foundation.
In addition, over the four-year course of the grant, we expect to hire a staff of eleven input operators fluent in Tibetan—continuing the ACIP tradition of giving work and hope to local residents, and training them to preserve their own cultural heritage. We have high hopes for a great outcome, as the National University of Mongolia has a strong Tibetan language program.
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For over 30 years, The Asian Classics Input Project has been locating, cataloging, digitally preserving, and disseminating precious collections of ancient wisdom. These invaluable texts hold the philosophical, cultural, and religious heritage of endangered Asian cultures dating back more than 2,500 years. It is a race against time, as countless books have been lost over the generations and many of the books that do remain are dangerously fragile, vulnerable to damage and neglect, or otherwise inaccessible.
We travel the globe searching for surviving texts in libraries, monasteries and private collections. We then catalogue their location and contents; scan digital images of them; and manually key them, creating e-text at the data entry centers that we’ve established throughout Asia. These digitized materials are then made available, free of charge, to scholars, translators, teachers, and practitioners worldwide.
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