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Please join our special event, ALL in Mongolia: Pr

Please join our special event, ALL in Mongolia: Preserving and Sharing Wisdom on February 18th at 5 AM MST Sedona. Link in bio!

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The literature of dhāraṇī is extensive. Ther

The literature of dhāraṇī is extensive. There are many separate texts bearing the title of dhāraṇī, as well as collections numbering several hundred dhāraṇīs each (dhāraṇī-saṃgraha).

With Nagarjuna Institute of Buddhist Studies in Kathmandu, Nepal, ALL works to preserve the wisdom of Dharani literature for future generations.

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Vasudhārā Vrata (Gātilādhāla Danegu) is a pop

Vasudhārā Vrata (Gātilādhāla Danegu) is a popular ceremony dedicated to the worship of Vasudhārā. It falls on a full moon harvest during the lunar month of Bhadra (August to September), and it is performed for two consecutive days. It is believed that one who performs this Vrata will get seven kinds of gifts: wealth, quality, offspring, longevity, happiness, praise, and wisdom. This ceremony is performed using texts preserved by the Asian Legacy Library.

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Meet Ms. D. Tagaantsetseg, an important member of

Meet Ms. D. Tagaantsetseg, an important member of ALL’s digital cataloging team at the National Library of Mongolia.

Asian Legacy Library: preserving and sharing timel

Asian Legacy Library: preserving and sharing timeless wisdom.

Asian Legacy Library participates at the Pacific N

Asian Legacy Library participates at the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC) Annual Conference at the University of Arizona, Tucson
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Dr. Miroj Shakya, Associate Professor at the University of the West and Director of Sanskrit Operations at ALL, presented a paper titled “The Digital Dharani Project: Preserving Rare Incantation Manuscripts from Nepal at the PNC 2022 Annual Conference and Joint Meetings hosted by the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA, on September 16-18, 2022.
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The main theme was the Digital World in an Age of Uncertainty: Humanizing Technology for Wellness, Resilience, and Creativity. The program focused on topics including Digital Learning, Information Science and E-business, Digital Humanities, and Techno-cultural Data in a Post-pandemic World.
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Dr. Shakya introduced a new Dhāraṇī Preservation Project of the Asian Legacy Library (ALL) and Nagarjuna Institue of Buddhist Studies (NIBS) and its goals at the conference and highlighted the importance of Dhāraṇī, and discussed why there is a need for the preservation of endangered and rare Dhāraṇī collections from Nepal.

Thank you for all your support of ALL! There is so

Thank you for all your support of ALL! There is so much more to be done in 2023, and we need your help. Please consider making a year-end donation to ALL to ensure that we can continue to preserve and share wisdom together in the new year. All donations to ALL are tax-deductible and immensely valuable to our organization.

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From all of us at ALL, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year to you and your loved ones!

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You may ask: how have we kept ALL thriving and gro

You may ask: how have we kept ALL thriving and growing for thirty-five years just on donations, not charging at all to use our database on our website, and being supported mainly by sponsors like you?
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ALL works the “Seed System”— giving first to others what we wish for ourselves. Every year ALL gives a percentage of its income to support other organizations focused on making a beneficial impact in the world.
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Looking back over the past thirty-five years, we see how successful this system has been in helping to keep ALL growing and thriving so that we can preserve even more timeless wisdom manuscripts for future generations.
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Starting in 2023, to honor our 35th anniversary, we wish to support a women’s Sanskrit boarding school in Varanasi, India. Dr. Santosh Dwivedi, Director of our Varanasi Input Center, introduced us to the Panini Kanya University. There are few schools in India which provide such high quality Sanskrit education. Established in 1971, this boarding school currently has 120 young women from all parts of India studying traditional Sanskrit grammar (Vyakarana), the Vedas, Upanishads, yoga, meditation, and martial arts, as well as contemporary university subjects.

“A man has made at least a start on discovering

“A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.” — Elton Trueblood, 20th-century American author.
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The future is now. As we celebrate our 35th anniversary, it's amazing to contemplate the legacy that ALL is leaving to the world. Over our multi-decade history, Asian Legacy Library has safeguarded, preserved, and shared over three million pages of timeless wisdom.
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Our mission holds that every word ALL preserves will be available, free of charge, to everyone for generations to come.
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The next 35th anniversary Zoom event will be on Tuesday the 20th of December, at 5:00 am Arizona time. Please sign up for this free event via link in bio to receive the Zoom link. This will be a celebration of our work in Nepal with our preservation team at the Nagarjuna Institute of Buddhist Studies (NIBS), Kathmandu.

It is wonderful to see how ALL’s use of technolo

It is wonderful to see how ALL’s use of technology has developed since these early days — ALL continues to stay at the cutting edge of preservation technology, adapting and evolving alongside the tech we use.

Digital Preservation of Manuscripts in Nepal, a co

Digital Preservation of Manuscripts in Nepal, a collaboration between Asian Legacy Library and the Nagarjuna Institute of Buddhist Studies, together commenced the transcription of these nine sutras in 2019:
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The Navasutra Sangraha is a collection of nine Mahayana sutras.
Aṣṭasāhasrikā prajñāpāramitā
Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra
Daśabhūmīśvara Sūtra
Suvarṇaprabhāsottama Sūtra
Samādhirāja Sūtra
Saddharmapuṇḍarīka-sūtra
Lalitavistara Sutra
Tathagataguhyaka Sutra/Guhyasamajatantra
Gandavyuha Sutra
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Miroj Shakya: So far, we have completed the transcription of five sutras.
Second, the Digital Dhāraṇī Project is pioneering work that the Asian Legacy Library started in March 2022 in collaboration with the Nagarjuna Institute of Buddhist Studies we plan to locate and scan 108 dhāraṇī manuscripts from local collections and libraries of the Kathmandu Valley. We then plan to transcribe these 108 dhāraṇī manuscripts into Roman and Devanagari script to display both scan and transcription on the ALL website.

Join us for a live event on December 20th with Joh

Join us for a live event on December 20th with John Brady and the preservation team in Nepal.
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This will be a celebration of our work in Nepal with our preservation team at the Nagarjuna Institute of Buddhist Studies (NIBS), Kathmandu.
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Osiris Luciano, our amazing filmmaker, has created beautiful footage to show you what we actually do at this Nepal input and scanning center with Dr. Miroj Shakya (University of the West, California) and our team at NIBS.
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The event will be co-hosted by Roy Phay, Singapore; Candy Lai, ALL Nepal Support Team; and Paulina Franco, Club de Oro, Latin America.
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We wish to connect you, our international community of supporters around the world, with our Nepal ALL team. Translations will be simultaneous in both Spanish and Chinese.
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Register via link in bio ✅

Asian Legacy Library would like to express our gra

Asian Legacy Library would like to express our gratitude to the women of ALL— to our amazing staff, volunteers, and organizers leading our international fundraising, and to our staff at ALL’s scanning and input centers around the world.

We rejoice in their smiles and share with you their words about how ALL has changed their lives.

"ALL changed my life by showing me that miracles are possible if you have the knowledge of where everything is coming from. That’s why it is my mission to save and spread the timeless wisdom texts." ~ MARIJA MOERTL, Gold Club, Austria

It’s been thirty-five years of Asian Legacy Libr

It’s been thirty-five years of Asian Legacy Library (ALL), and the future is bright. ALL has grown exponentially from the inception of the Asian Classics Input Project (ACIP) as an input-only project. Today, ALL’s state-of-the-art digital library houses our ACIP data, as well as data from several additional Asian wisdom traditions. The ALL database is the source preserving timeless wisdom, which houses over 600,000 searchable pages of transliterated original works, all of which are freely available online.

These texts are ancient. What's in them isn't. The

These texts are ancient. What's in them isn't. They contain both the philosophy and practice to elevate our World View and create Compassion, Joy, and Loving Kindness. What the world needs now more than ever.

At the Asian Legacy Library we have been locating, digitizing, and sharing for free the timeless wisdom traditions of Asia. The precious books that we save contain the writings of some of the greatest contemplative masters in history. Thank you for your support.

Join Geshe Michael Roach & John Brady at our speci

Join Geshe Michael Roach & John Brady at our special 35th anniversary live event on November 25th.

We will share exciting stories from our three-plus decades of ALL adventures working to save timeless wisdom around the world. There will also be a ten-minute live walk-through with Sonam Lhamo of our South India TDL Center, plus several more surprises.

See you there!
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In collaboration with Kathmandu-based Nagarjuna In

In collaboration with Kathmandu-based Nagarjuna Institute of Buddhist Studies (NIBS), ALL is carrying out a groundbreaking project to preserve thousands of manuscript pages of Sanskrit Buddhist literature known as dharani. Sometimes translated as “spells,” these brief texts are understood by diverse Buddhist communities across vast spans of time and geography to have been taught by Shakyamuni Buddha for two key purposes: first, to provide protection against worldly misfortune and calamity, and second, to distill the essence of the Buddhist teachings, the Dharma.
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The dharani shown in this image is the Gaṇapati-hṛdayā Dhāraṇī, which honors the deity Ganésa. The Dhāraṇī claims that if anyone recites and practices the Gaṇapati hṛdaya for seven days, he will accomplish every task. All strife and quarrels will go away forever, and violence and envy will turn into calmness. If one continues to practice and abides by the rules every seven days a week, he will obtain fortune and be free from any sickness in his body. In each rebirth, he will be able to remember his previous lives.

We celebrate and commend the remarkable project te

We celebrate and commend the remarkable project team at the National Library of Mongolia, who work so diligently to preserve timeless wisdom under the guidance of senior operator Sainbileg Byambadorj.
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ALL is honored to support the preservation of NLM's Tibetan collection with this wonderful group of preservation professionals and in collaboration with the Buddhist Digital Resource Center.
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From left to right top row: Uuriintuya, Sainbileg, Ochir, Khureltsooj, Emma From left to right bottom row: John, Manal, Khongorzul. S, Khongorzul. E, Uujin, Tsagaantsetseg

The wisdom and compassion that exist’s in our wo

The wisdom and compassion that exist’s in our world is both fragile and timeless. ALL is hard at work preserving these timeless ideas making sure they don’t disappear from our world and are made available to anyone, for free.

The idea for the preservation project is born at t

The idea for the preservation project is born at the Pyne Hall offices of the Department of Classics of Princeton University in 1987. Princeton Department of Classics chairman, Prof. Samuel D. Atkins (1911-2002), an expert of Greek, Latin, & Sanskrit, joins the project advisory board; as does Prof. William LaFleur (1936-2010), of the University of California at Los Angeles.

Extraordinary scholar and visionary Khen Rinpoche Geshe Lobsang Tharchin (1921-2004) becomes the inspiration and chief literary advisor to the project.

The founding team of the project assembled: Director, Michael Roach, Princeton University graduate & liaison; Assistant Director, Robert Taylor PhD, of the U.S. Department of Transportation; John Malpas, developer of Tibetan input software; Steve Bruzgulis, inventor of first Tibetan word processor; and Ven. Thupten Pelgye, overseas input center manager. Robert Chilton provides invaluable technical expertise, especially as Unicode is developed as a universal standard for computer fonts.

The project receives a grant from the Hewett-Packard Foundation to build its first data entry center in the South Indian town of Bylakuppe.

Licenses the Tibetan and Sanskrit listings of the U.S. Library of Congress and converts listings to easily searchable form for public release; staff are selected for advising the Library of Congress on future purchases of Tibetan-language materials, and produces a catalog of 1,100 titles for acquisition.

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