'A Sanskrit Buddhist Tripitaka for the 21st

Century:
The Development of the
Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon'.
By
Miroj Shakya, Ph.d Candidate
University of the West
Project Manager
Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Project
Ab str ac t

The paper focus on the project called DSBC on formation of the Sanskrit Buddhist
Tripitaka by exploring extant Sanskrit Buddhist printed texts through last
centuries.

To make this dream project a reality, Prof. Lewis R. Lancaster,

former President of University of the West and coordinator of the
project, initiated cooperation with Nagarjuna Institute in Nepal in
digitizing the Sanskrit Buddhist Canon since the year 2003.

The Sanskrit Tripitaka could be made easily accessible to all.We

are accelerating our work by broadening our support and applying
the latest computer technology. Currently we have placed 62
Sutras, 108 Stotras, and 87 Shastra texts online. Now, for the first
time in history, the basic texts of Indian Buddhism are accessible
freely downloadable via the internet:
http://www.uwest.edu/sanskritcanon/

The availability of all the Sanskrit Buddhist texts online will be an

important milestone in Buddhist scholarship, and will make this
immensely useful to educators and non-specialists. However much
effort and support will be needed to meet this distant goal.