Buddhist Digital Resource Center Employee Directory
LibrariesMassachusetts, United States11-50 Employees
The Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC) is a library-focused organization based in Boston, Massachusetts, dedicated to preserving and sharing Buddhist texts through a combination of technology and scholarship. Its work centers on digitizing and providing access to Buddhist manuscripts, with initiatives such as the Nepalese Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscript Scanning Initiative and the Fragile Palm Leaves Digitization Project, reflecting a mission to expand the availability of scholarly materials to researchers and other stakeholders. Serving libraries, scholars, and researchers interested in Buddhist studies, BDRC aims to tackle the documentation gap for Buddhist literature by enabling broader access to digitized texts and related scholarly resources. The organization operates within the library and digital humanities space, positioning itself as a facilitator of preservation and study for Buddhist manuscripts, and it lists a small to mid-sized presence in the U.S. with activities that tie into international manuscript projects.