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Ongoing project from the Digital South Asia Library. Languages include Assamese, Baluchi, Bengali, Divehi, Dogri, English (Hobson-Jobson), Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Khowar, Konkani, Lushai, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Newari, Pali, Panjabi, Pashto, Oriya, Pali, Panjabi, Pashto, Persian, Prakrit, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Torwali, and Urdu. Also includes two comparative (Indo-European and Dravidian) dictionaries.

"The largest completely categorized database of freely available journal information available on the internet. The database presently contains 104870 titles [as of 11/1/2016]. Journal information includes the description (aims and scope), journal abbreviation, journal homepage link, subject category and ISSN. Searching this information allows the rapid identification of potential journals to publish your research in, as well as allow you to find new journals of interest to your field."

Identifies and lists indexed South Asian periodical titles. Hosted by University of Wisconsin Digital Collections

Includes Scholiast (a bibliographic database for Asian and Buddhist Studies), Tabulae (journals with Buddhist Studies material), Lexica (definitions from two Sanskrit-Tibetan word lists and a Sanskrit-English dictionary), and Repositorium (materials for Indology and Buddhology).

An initiative of the Asia for Educators Program at Columbia University. Identifies online visual resources and indexes them in ways that are familiar to teachers and students in world history, world literature, and general art courses.

A digital humanities project with a unique and ambitious task: to create a database for the vast world of South Asian letters. PANDiT seeks to store, curate, and share reliable data on works, people, places, institutions, and manuscripts from premodern South Asia, in addition to relevant secondary sources, and to do so across period, language, discipline and subject matter. It is designed as an interactive web-based repository that scholars of every South Asian specialty and interest can contribute to and as a basic tool on which they will routinely come to rely.

Pacific And Regional Archive for DIgital Sources in Endangered Cultures curates digital material about small or endangered languages.

Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. The site features archives, manuscripts, artwork, photographs, and more, from a variety of Asian cultures, as well as materials showing some of the ways Europeans have responded to Asia over the centuries.

A cooperative project among participating libraries to provide browsable tables of contents of journals in South Asian languages. Hosted and archived with permanent URLs by NYU Libraries.

A resource for the study of inscriptions from South and Central Asia, which focuses on the period of the Guptas (circa 320 to 550). The project is based at the British Museum, British Library and the School of Oriental and African Studies.

tartīb va tahz̲īb, Anvar Muʻaẓẓam, Ashhar Farḥān.
Offsite Z7161.A22 2008g (v. 1-4)

Provides information about rare manuscripts in various South Asian languages (e.g., Sanskrit, Urdu, Tamil, Sinhalese) available for research in the Asian Division of the Library of Congress.

A biographical encyclopedia of all known past masters of Himalayan religion, both Buddhist and Bo

Subcategories include Asian and Pacific Studies electronic journals, Burma (Myanmar), Papua (Indonesia), Philippines, Tibetan Studies

Editors: Jens Braarvi; Dag T. Haug; Frode Helland; Stephan Guth; University of Oslo, Norwegian Institute of Palaeography and Historical Philology.
A multilingual corpus of historically important texts and a resource to access the global history of concepts as displayed in a number of languages. It demonstrates how concepts diffuse historically into new languages, and thus into new cultural contexts. Sub-libraries include: Arabic texts; Biblia; Bibliotheca Polyglotta Graeca et Latina; Cuneiform multilinguals; Library of Old Norse; Motif library of mythology; Norwegian place names - Norske stedsnavn; Pāli Tipiṭaka; Sanskrit-Persica; The Ashoka library; The Kanjur Buddhist Sūtras in Tibetan; The multilingual Ibsen; Thesaurus Literaturae Buddhicae; Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Bibliographic essays by subject experts

The Internet guide to Buddhism & Buddhist studies. Last updated 18 August 2016.

Microforms format at Burke Library. Files (1955-1993) filmed at the World Council of Churches in Geneva detailing the creation and the development of the Dialogue between People of Living Faiths programme. Includes documents that provide information on the various Multi-faith consultations, including the Christian-Hindu dialogue, the Christian-Muslim dialogue and Christian-Buddhist dialogue. See See finding aid

Database of Buddhist bibliographies, including full text articles, hosted by National Taiwan University

English language abstracts drawn from a wide range of journals in various languages reflecting a wide array of complementary disciplines. The database is updated with 600 to 750 entries per year. Articles are classified into the following three large sections: method and theory, religions in context by area, and textual and conceptual traditions.

A digital initiative dedicated to encouraging informed public discourse and interdisciplinary scholarship on the culture and history of Muslim societies. Organized into three channels: Project, Pop, and Journal.

Harvard University. "The Pluralism Project is a two decade-long research project that engages students in studying the new religious diversity in the United States. We explore particularly the communities and religious traditions of Asia and the Middle East that have become woven into the religious fabric of the United States in the past twenty-five years."

International Bulletin of Missionary Research with Yale Divinity School Library. includes English-language doctoral dissertations without regard to country of origin. Second, rather than focusing narrowly on missions, it also includes dissertations dealing with Christianity outside the West. Excluded are dissertations about Christianity in Europe, Australasia, and North America, with the exception of aboriginal missions in those areas. Third, it expands the chronological scope to include dissertations presented since 1894. Over 6,250 titles as of May 2014.

A biographical encyclopedia of all known past masters of Himalayan religion, both Buddhist and Bo