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An online educational resource with over 45,000 images of Himalayan art, from museum, university and private collections throughout the world.

A database which indexes Chinese/English journal articles published in Hong Kong and Macau.

The archive can be browse by iconography, location, material, dynasty/period, and religious category. Each picture has detailed information and can be saved for research use.

Bibliographic database of Buddhism related articles & books published in Japan. Includes articles in many languages, including English.

Bibliographic database of Buddhism related articles & books published in Japan. Includes articles in many languages, including English.

Texts from artifacts and stone rubbings of various Chinese dynasties.

2nd edition. Introductory essays about Tibetan Buddhism by John Powers. 

Includes readings lists about: Japanese Buddhist Art & Architecture and Buddhist Relics and Reliquaries.

"...contains about 2,300 early maps of Japan and the World."

Dissertations, journal articles, and white papers from Japanese educational institutions.

"...semi-annual journal dedicated to the academic study of Japanese religions."

A free online searchable database of jātakas in Indian texts and art.

A free online searchable database of jātakas in Indian texts and art.

A free online searchable database of jātakas in Indian texts and art.

"...a scholarly journal dedicated to the historical study of Chinese Buddhism in the premodern and modern periods."

Journal for the Society for the Study of Chinese Religions.

A publication of the International Association of Buddhist Studies.

Includes titles such as: The Journal of Asian Studies, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Numen, Inner Asia, and more. Non-UWest users can access certain articles in the Register and Read program.

Search JSTOR for journal articles and book chapters on a sustainability topic.

Non-UWest users may go directly to: https://www.jstor.org/sustainability/

This catalogue by Dr. Lewis Lancaster provides equivalent Buddhist canon titles in Sanskrit, Chinese, and Korean.

Scanned gallery exhibitions of rare materials, including books, illustrations, and historical documents.

This page is a digital, searchable research bibliography of all 49 texts in Mahāratnakūṭa Collection (MRK: Chinese Da baoji jing 大寶積經; Tibetan Dkon mchog brtsegs pa chen po).

This page is a digital, searchable research bibliography of all 49 texts in Mahāratnakūṭa Collection (MRK: Chinese Da baoji jing 大寶積經; Tibetan Dkon mchog brtsegs pa chen po). Find citations for translations and articles focusing on the different texts.

This page is a digital, searchable research bibliography of all 49 texts in Mahāratnakūṭa Collection (MRK: Chinese Da baoji jing 大寶積經; Tibetan Dkon mchog brtsegs pa chen po).

"With MARKUS you can upload a file in classical Chinese (and perhaps in the future other languages) and tag personal names, place names, temporal references, and bureaucratic offices automatically. You can also upload your own list of key terms for automated tagging. You can then read a document while checking a range of reference works at the same time, or compare passages in which the same names or keywords appear." Check its research blog examples of how the data extracted from this tool is used.

A state-of-the-art machine translation service, covering the major classical Buddhist languages Pāli, Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Buddhist Chinese, into a number of modern languages.

A state-of-the-art machine translation service, covering the major classical Buddhist languages Pāli, Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Buddhist Chinese, into a number of modern languages.

Lookup Chinese characters in their archaic script forms, etymologies, dialect pronunciations, and more.

Lookup corresponding titles in Chinese, Sanskrit, Pali, English and Tibetan.

Palm-leaf manuscripts digitized from the U Po Thi Library.

A national Chinese database with full text journal articles in philosophy and social sciences. ⚠️ On Campus use only for full text downloads. 🌍 Off Campus/Non-UWest users can access articles by signing up for a free individual account through this link or request full text through ILL/DD.