The Asian Classics Input Project (ACIP) and the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center(TBRC) have negotiated a cooperation agreement to share scanned and digital resources for the greater good of both of the communities that they serve.
ACIP is making available some of the materials it is scanning in Mongolia and elsewhere for inclusion in the TBRC digital library. It will also make available some of its digital input to enhance the searchability of the scanned images found in the TBRC digital library. TBRC will assist ACIP in cataloging its materials through this linkage and in identifying other materials to which TBRC and ACIP have access which should be input in ACIP's centers and which should be digitally photographed.
Priority will be given to materials useful to translators and for canonical and historical scholarship. The first concrete examples of this collaboration will be working together on the encyclopedic work of Longdol Lama Ngawang Lobzang, the collected works of Chahar Geshe Lozang Tsultrim including his great biography of Tsongkhapa, and the collected works of Ching Sujugthu Lozang Norbu Sherab, and Changlung Pandita Ngawang Lozang Tenpai Gyaltsen. The cooperation will include the canon, rare yigcha material needed to preserve the scholastic tradition throughout the world, and on biographical material necessary for understanding the history of Tibetan Buddhism.
