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September 22, 2005: Rare Buddhist Manuscripts Being Digitized
"By using modern technologies many scholars are making knowledge of Buddhism available for the general public and youngsters. Many Buddhist scholars in Dharamshala town are digitalizing rare Buddhist manuscripts to preserve them and give them a virtual home on the Internet.
Funded by the National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM), the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, has taken on the task of locating, collecting and cataloguing all available Tibetan manuscripts in and around the Himachal Pradesh."
