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The Shangpa Kagyü Resource Center intends to form a collaborative and multilingual platform to share and preserve digital texts and information concerning the Shangpa Kagyü lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. This database for translation work, research and university studies aims at facilitating cooperation and exchanges in projects of common interest, thereby enriching the lineage and its teachings.

Contributions

The Shangpa Kagyu Resource Center is a participative project that will evolve according to contributions, thanks to international collaboration. Masters, Dharma Centers and practitioners are welcome to participate in the gathering of documents that will benefit the Shangpa lineage and all sentient beings.

Contents

Classifications

General classification : This section consist of traditional catalogues of Shangpa texts by Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Thayé and Gyurmé Dechen. Each catalogue is significant and sorts the texts of the tradition. The Shangpa Collections : This section includes the charts of the collections of the Shangpa texts. Each chart has hypertext links to its own texts and each text includes up to several links to the original manuscripts available on the Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC).

Topics

This section enables a direct access to the texts related to their main subject. Those subjects are selected based on the catalogues of Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Thayé.

Persons & Places

Those sections contain information about people and places found in the various Shangpa texts. This work is in progress and is to be enriched gradually.

Search the library

The search engine has to be improved to enable searches in unicode texts. This issue is being looked into.

Translations

Some translations will be shortly added as PDF files.