Siddhartha Vihar Trust as part of its efforts to preserve and make available manuscripts, texts, books and other material pertaining to Buddhism and Buddhist Philosophy, has scanned lakhs of pages as part of the Digital Library project. Along with our digital library, this pagee contains links that would be useful to researchers and lay people who would be interested to learn more about the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha.
This Project has been undertaken specially by the Siddhartha Vihar Trust to protect and preserve various old texts. Currently the texts are available only to the research scholars associated with the Pali Institute and other institutes that we have an association with. We hope to make the texts available to outside researchers through the Pali Institute, Kalaburagi.
The International Institute of Pali, Sanskrit and Comparative Philosophy has a wider mandate and deeper expertise in the language, grammar and linguistics of Pali, Prakrit and Sanskrit. The Siddhartha Vihar Trust is interested currently in exploring texts related to Buddhism and how we can make these texts accessible to common people. Our efforts have led to the translation of several important texts from Pali and Sanskrit to Indian languages which we will be publishing over the course of time.
The Internet Archive is the oldest Digital Library project and has digitised and archived millions of books. They have worked with governments, universities, non-profits and companies to build a huge repository of digitised material.
The National Digital Library is the pre-eminent digital library project of India. It is sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Government of India and is hosted at IIT, Kharagpur. It succeeded the Digital Library Project of India that was led by the Indian Institute of Science, CDAC and IIIT-Hyderabad during the 2000s to provide free access to a million books in English and Indian languages.
BDRC's Buddhist Digital Archives (BUDA) provides access to more than 17 million pages of Buddhist texts and offers digital tools to support research. LEARN MORE ...
The Buddhist eLibrary follows the principle of 'One Dharma', that is, promoting all Buddhist traditions and the diversity of cultures and languages they represent. LEARN MORE...