TBRC Sky Treasures Matching Grant
March 28, 2012 6:31 pm UTC
2012 is an exciting year. We have received a generous matching grant from an inspired donor — our Sky Treasures Matching Grant. Sky Treasure is a translation of the Tibetan word, ནམ་མཁཨའ་མཛོད།, nam mkha’ mdzod — signifying inexhaustible treasure. With over sixteen thousand volumes (more than nine million pages) of Tibetan texts accessible via the Internet, TBRC is a modern Tibetan library unlike any that has existed —a virtual sky treasury.
The grantor will match donations up to $100,000 each year for the next three years to help support our mission. Every dollar given to TBRC will be matched. Your giving has a direct impact on our work in the following areas:
Seek Out & Preserve
- Expand a cooperative network for the long-term preservation of Tibetan texts and secure Tibetan collections for scanning.
Organize
- Develop our advanced library using an evolving set of technological tools that is based on Gene’s Smith’s approach to the Tibetan literary tradition.
Disseminate
- Integrate a fully featured multi-language website with a ‘Google-Style’ Tibetan book search and a comprehensive archive of scanned Tibetan literature spanning all traditions and literary genres.
- Distribute the library to every monastery on the planet by 2015.
Contact Executive Director, Jeff Wallman, at jeffwallman@tbrc.org for more information.