Digital Dharma – Video – Tuesday, September 8 at 7:30 pm NY time. The late E. Gene Smith, bodhisattva, scholar, and librarian made it his life’s work to rescue Tibetan Dharma texts after the devastation of so many temples in Tibet. Over the course of his life, he assembled hundreds of thousands of texts, digitized them, and made them available online for practitioners and scholars around the world. Contemporary scholarship in Buddhist studies owes its existence to his efforts. 90 minutes.
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