Preserving Humanity’s Wisdom for Future Generations

The Asian Legacy Library (ALL) is a global non-profit dedicated to preserving the world’s cultural and literary wisdom traditions. Through collaboration with partners across Asia, we locate, digitize, and safeguard rare texts and manuscripts, ensuring their knowledge remains accessible for generations to come.

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The Asian Legacy Library provides digital preservation training for librarians and communities. Through collaboration, we build preservation knowledge while safeguarding and sharing cultural heritage.

The Asian Legacy Library’s South India preservation centers are dedicated to preserving heritage through manual input of manuscripts and xylographs.
South India Input Project
The Erdene Zuu digital preservation project focuses on cataloging and scanning manuscripts and woodblock prints held in Mongolia's oldest monastery.
Erdene Zuu Preservation Project
The Varanasi preservation team safeguards Sanskrit classics by manually transcribing important texts, resulting in high quality searchable e-texts.
Varanasi Input Project

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of Ancient Wisdom

Explore the Asian Legacy Library’s newly updated digital library—with original scans, catalog records, e-texts, and powerful multilingual search. Accessible to all, this library holds hundreds of thousands of pages representing the preservation work of ALL and our partners across three decades and the wisdom of centuries.

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The Nagarjuna Institute input center manually transcribes classical Sanskrit and Newari texts in Prachalit, Ranjana, and Bhujimol scripts.
Nagarjuna Institute of Buddhist Studies
The Zanabazar Library project catalogs and scans materials from the library's collection of over 12,500 volumes, safeguarding Mongolian literary heritage.
Zanabazar University Library.
The Arvaikheer Library team scans and catalogs key texts from the library's collection in Arvaikheer, the historical capital of Mongolia's Övörkhangai Province.
Arvaikheer Library

Safeguard Source Literature with ALL

All funds contributed to the Asian Legacy Library directly support our mission of locating, digitally preserving, and making accessible invaluable collections of cultural wisdom literature. Together we keep wisdom alive.

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