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University of the West signed Memorandum of Understanding on 7th May, 2010 with ECAI, UC Berkeley to digitize nineteen rare Sanskrit Buddhist books from UC Berkeley Library. This input project will commence on July 2010 and finish on the end of December 2010.

List of the Books as follows:
No. Title

1 Vinayasutravrttyabhidhanasvavyakhyanam
2 Vaidalyasūtram
3 Tantrapradipah
4 Tantrayuktivicāraḥ
5 Rupa mala
6 Tarkabhāṣa and Vādasthāna of Mokṣākaragupta and Jitāripāda
7 Dakṭara-Śrīyatīndravimala-Caturdhurīṇa-viracitaṃ Niṣkiñcana-Yaśodharam
8 Pañcakanyātaraṅgiṇī
9 Ārya satyam
10 Padyacintamani nam Nagasena carita mahakavyaya
11 Jñāpakasamuccaya
12 Bauddhālaṅkāra-śāstram ; Subodhālaṅkāra-svabāpālaṅkārātmakam
13 Sudhābhojanam
14 Ḍimapañcakam
15 Aspects of Buddhist culture, including Veera kanya vahini = Vīra kanyā vāhinī
16 Nanda-Gautamīyam naṭakam
17 Madanādinighaṇṭuḥ
18 Bhāgavr̥tti-saṅkalanam
19 Dharmapadavyakhyanam

Miroj Shakya, Coordinator of Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Project has participated ECAI Workshop at Hong Kong Science Centre, City University of Hong Kong on May 27-30, 2010. The theme of the workshop is “Visual Analytics for Humanities and Arts: Charting the Course.” It is hosted by Centre for Creative Media and Department of Chinese Translation Linguistics.

The focus of this workshop was to plan the collaboration between ECAI and the CUHK Sponsoring Units. The process of visualizing data for pattern recognition including the potential of immersive environments is a research goal of the institutions. We have discussed about how to deal with a range of data including textual, archaeological, and cultural heritage materials.

16 workshop members have seen the new immersive lab theatres just being constructed by the Centre for Creative Media which is one of the main attractions of this workshop.

Shakya has attended another workshop at Fudan University, Shanghai on May 30- June 2, 2010. The theme of the workshop is “Cultural Atlas Construction and Planning,” sponsored by Library and Department of Geography of Fudan University, Shanghai. The workshop was open to institutions that are either in the planning stage for Cultural Atlas construction or having already begun the actual work. This workshop has given a platform to the beginners to show their own projects and open the door to collaborate with other members of different projects. A focus was on “Religious Atlases of Asia” including the proposed new project to explore seaports and maritime archaeology.

The workshop members have visited a one-day tour of the exciting Shanghai EXPO 2010.

Dear Visitors,

We are facing some technical difficulties with current DSBC site. As a result, We are unable to update new texts. Sorry for the inconvenience. But we are working to fix that problems right now. In few months, We are going to put new features on the site which includes advanced Search engine, Printer friendly pages of e-texts, and others. Thanks for your patience.

all the best
Miroj Shakya

Three new texts will be updated soon in the month of September. They are as follows:

Arthaviniścayanibandhana edited by N. H. Samtani
Madhyamakahṛdaya written by Bhāvya
Niṣpannayogāvalī edited by Benoytosh Bhattacharyya

Yuktiṣaṣṭikārikā /Ācārya Nāgārjuna /Bimal Kumar
Mahāparinirvāṇa sūtram / Ernst Waldsmidt
Nityakarmapūjāvidhiḥ /CIHTS** DHI
Yaśodharācaritam /Ven. Davulden
Citralakṣaṇam/ The Asiatic Society
Ᾱryadharmadhātugarbhavivaraṇam /
Saṇmukhī dhāraṇī/ Katsumi Mimaki
Abhidharmadīpaṭīkā/ P. S. Jaini
Bhikṣuṇī vinaya/ Gustav Roth
Nāgānanda nāṭaka/ Śrī Harṣavardhana / Sansarchandra
Śrīghanācārasaṁgrahaḥ/ Sanghasena Singh
Sphuṭārthā śrīghanācārasaṁgrahaṭīkā/ Sanghasena Singh
Mahāvyutpatti/ I. P. Minaev
Bodhicittotpāda sūtra śāstra/ Ācārya Vasubandhu / Santi Bhiksu
Nyāyabinduṭīkā/ Ācārya Dharmakīrti / Dvarikadas Shastri
Prasannapadā (madhyamakavṛtti)/ Ācārya Candrakīrti / P. L. Vaidya
Mahāyānasūtrālaṁkāraḥ
Ᾱryaprajñāpāramitāvajracchedikāṭīkā/Ācārya Kamalaśīla / Pema Tenzin
Ᾱryavajravidāraṇā nāma dhāraṇī/ CIHTS** DHI
Avikalpapraveśadhāraṇī
Śiṣyalekha/Ācārya Candragomin
Vasudhārādhāraṇī/ P. S. Jaini
Ᾱryamahāpratisarāvidyādhāraṇī/ Thinley Ram Shasani
Dhvajāgrakeyurā dhāraṇī
Hetubinduṭīkā/ Bhaṭṭa Arcaṭa /Sukhlalji Sanghavi
Ᾱryaśālistambakamahāyānasūtraṭīkā/ Ācārya Nāgārjuna /Sonam Rabten
Ᾱryaśālistambakakārikā/ Ācārya Nāgārjuna /Sonam Rabten
Piṇḍīkramaḥ/ Ācārya Nāgārjuna/ Ram Sankar Tripathy
Pañcakramaḥ/ Ācārya Nāgārjuna/ Ram Sankar Tripathy

Update: April 29th, 2008

DSBC Project will attend the International Buddhist Conference on the United Nations Day of Vesak (May 4-6) in Bangkok, Thailand. The theme of the conference is 'Buddhist approach to global crisis'. And sub-themes consist of: (1) Buddhist Approach to environment crisis (2) Buddhist approach to economic crisis (3) Buddhist approach to Political conflict and peace development (4) IABU workshop (5) Common Buddhist text project and (5) Buddhist E-resources and network.

Miroj Shakya, DSBC Project Manager, will be participating as a panelist of the workshop on "Buddhist Electronic Resources and Networks." Buddhists from 80 countries are participating Vesak 2009 at Thailand. For details, please visit http://www.icundv.com/

Dear Visitors!

I am glad to inform you that new texts are going to be online by the end of April . We are still going through remodelling process. Some search functions are still not operating well. It will take some time to fix all. But thanks for your patience.

All the best
Miroj Shakya
DSBC Project

Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Project will be representing University of the West in the 37th annual international conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) to be held from March 22-26, 2009 in Williamsburg, Virginia in the United States organized by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and the University of Virginia.

The conference theme will be “Making History Interactive,” which will be reflected in both the conference activities and the unique venue. Miroj Shakya, DSBC Project Manager and UWest PhD student will be presenting paper titled “A Sanskrit Buddhist Canon for the 21st Century.” For details, please visit: http://www.ecai.org/Activities/2009CAA/caa2009.html

I am extremely happy to know that the Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Project is broadening and applying the latest computer technology, thereby freely providing users to read and search through the UWest sponsored website. We began to support the digitizing of the Sanskrit Buddhist Canon since the year 2003. During this short period of time, this project has established its identity in the world. I wish great success for this project. Sanskrit Buddhist texts are extremely important for all the Buddhists. Now, for the first time in history, these basic valuable texts of Indian Buddhism are accessible and freely downloadable via the internet. The availability of all the Sanskrit Buddhist texts online will be an important milestone in Buddhist scholarship, and will make the project immensely useful to educators and students.

I would like to thank Dr. Lewis Lancaster, Former President of University of the West, Dr. Allen Huang, President of the University of the West, Min Bahadur Shakya, Director of Nagarjuna Institute, Nepal, and the DSBC staff for their hard work in bringing this dream project into reality.

                                                                                          Hsing Yun

DSBC participated in the the GIS-IDEAS, PNC and ECAI 2008 Joint International Conferences held in Ta Quang Buu Library, Hanoi University of Technology, Ha Noi, Vietnam from December 4th to 6th. Mr. Min Bahadur Shakya and Miroj Shakya jointly presented a paper on "Towards Comprehensive Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon." The theme of this year』s conference is: Information Technology for a Creative and Sustainable Humanosphere. There are 211 participants coming from Algeria, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, United Kingdom. Please click the News (courtesy PNClink.org)