Rinchen Terdzö:About
About The Rinchen Terdzö Catalog, A Tsadra Foundation Project
- Project Directors: Eric Colombel & Marcus Perman
- Editor-in-Chief: Marcus Perman
- Wiki Design and Maintenance: Jeremi Plazas
- Digital Curator, Archivist, Researcher, and Data Enterer: Morten Ostensen
- Tibetan Publications: Sean Price
- Programming and File Manipulation Consultant: Phil Battos
Aknowledgements
Following from the work done to create the detailed 18-volume Damnak Dzö Catalog, the Tsadra Foundation Research Department was able to develop a digital catalog of another of Jamgon Kongtrul's great treasuries because of the work of Sean Price and many others at Shechen Monastery, who edited and created the new 70-volume edition of the Rinchen Terdzö Chenmo. This new edition is based on all previous editions with multiple levels of editing based on all existing editions of individual texts and research of rare manuscripts done by Dakpo Tulku. The final volumes should be available by 2018. In the following years, two supplemental volumes of practice materials will also be produced. The digital catalog here was created by organizing the digital texts and using a unique application created by Phil Battos to load the unicode Tibetan, the corresponding PDFs of the pechas, and individual text and volume pages all at once into a MediaWiki-based website. Each text and colophon was then reviewed and metadata added by hand through the hard work of Morten Ostensen, supported by the wiki design work of Jeremi Plazas. Marcus Perman oversaw all aspects of the design and creation of the site and any complaints or notes of mistakes can be sent to him: Email Tsadra.
We are deeply grateful to the preeminent artists Pema Namdol Thaye and Robert Beer for use of their artwork that adorns and beautifies the site, as well as Alex Gardner at the Treasury of Lives, Jeff Watt at Himalayan Art Resources, and all those working to further E. Gene Smith’s vision at the Buddhist Digital Resource Center for providing such a wealth of informative content.
