The OBU: An Interview with Khemarato Bhikkhu
The Open Buddhist University (OBU) is an unaccredited, freely accessible digital resource founded in 2020. Its mission is to provide…
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The Open Buddhist University
This is a guest post by Khemarato Bhikkhu. Shortly after ordaining, a young monk in Thailand will be given a…
Buddhism and AI: Another Look
In recent months, I have come to identify as a neo-Luddite or, as a colleague said in jest, “a technophobe…
Sinhala Manuscripts at Wellcome Collection: Collaborative Practice and Cultural Heritage
Over the last few years, a collaborative project has been developing between the Sinhala Buddhist organisations the International Centre for…
AI Ethics and the Humanities: A Perspective from Buddhist Studies
This contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities)…
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An Overview of Digital Tools and Resources for Central and South Asian Studies Reviewed by The DO Members
This overview is inspired by Maddalena Poli’s recent post, which (re-)introduces East Asian Studies resources featured in The DO. Since…
Resources for Kanjur and Tanjur Studies: Introduction and Review
The Resources for Kanjur & Tanjur Studies (rKTs) is an open-access digital platform that is currently the largest database of…
The DiGA Project—Digitization of Gandhāran Artefacts – Part 2
In my last post, I discussed the DiGA project with two of its members – Dr Jessie Pons, project leader,…
An Intertextual Heatmap: Tantra of the Sun’s Reception in 14th century Tibet
How do you map 14th-century Buddhist intertextuality? Stanford scholar Elaine Lai shares how she created a digital heatmap to visualize textual connections between the “Tantra of the Sun” and its commentaries, offering new insights into citation patterns and textual authority.
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The DiGA Project—Digitization of Gandhāran Artefacts: An Interview with Jessie Pons and Cristiano Moscatelli (Part 1)
In the field of Buddhist art, recent years have seen more and more digitization projects that center around the art…