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Buddhist Studies

General history

Dharma Ebooks
Dharma Ebooks is a site featuring ebook editions primarily of the Buddhist canon in Tibetan, Buddhist philosophical texts from the Tibetan traditions, and practice texts.
Various maps of ancient Buddhist India drawn and compiled by Ānandajoti Bhikkhu (2013)
Soto Zen Buddhism in South America
Soto Zen Buddhism has over 110 years-history of teaching activity in South America. It has started in Peru and after WW2, in Brasil. Now it has spread all over South America. This film shows the advancement of Soto Zen Buddhism in South America.
Ayutthaya Historical Research
Well-cited database of ancient Buddhist monuments and historical periods in Ayutthaya, Thailand.
Access to Insight · Readings in Theravāda Buddhism
Very generic introduction to Theravada Buddhism, good for teaching first-year courses about the term, its origins, and its diverse practices.
Life of the Buddha
A brief essay with images by Kathryn Selig Brown (featured on the Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC page) on the life of the Buddha. The text of the essay includes direct links to images depicting episodes in the life of the Buddha (e.g. birth, first teachings, etc.).

Art history and Archeology

DANAM: the Digital Archive of Nepalese Arts and Monuments
DANAM, the Digital Archive of Nepalese Arts and Monuments, is the database of the Nepal Heritage Documentation Project. Datasets in DANAM include structured information about the monuments’ histories, object details, anthropological data on religious and social activities, architectural details, maps, plans and drawings.
Global Nepali Museum (GNM)
Global Nepali Museum (GNM) is a Museum in the Cloud, this is also a first database of its kind in Nepal that features the objects those are away and are housed in the museum’s around the world. This cloud based museum is an effort to brings all the objects under one domain to give an opportunity specially to the Nepali audience, students and researchers to see and study these objects .
The Rubin Museum of Art
The Rubin Museum of Art welcomes you to ExploreArt, a web site dedicated to using interactive web technologies and elegant design for creating innovative ways to experience art and understand its role in expressing the human experience.
3D models of caityas and temples at Swayambhū, Kwā Bāhāḥ, Namo Buddha and Asura cave in Pharping
Aerial Drone View: Boudha Stūpa
A Talk on "Mongol ‘Translations’ of a Nepalese Stupa"
Talk by Isabelle Charleux Ph.D., director of research at the CNRS, on "Mongol ‘Translations’ of a Nepalese Stupa: Architectural Replicas and the Cult of
Bodnāth Stūpa/Jarung khashar in Mongolia" (2019). The talk starts at minute 5:54.
Jowo Rinpoche, Jokhang Temple, Tibet
Short article about the Jowo Rinpoche image by Dr. Melody Rod-ari.
Ayutthaya Historical Research
Well-cited database of ancient Buddhist monuments and historical periods in Ayutthaya, Thailand.
Documentary on Buddhist mummies in Northern Japan (2017)
A Walk Through Angkor Wat
A walk through Angkor Wat, beginning at the gatehouse, using Google Street View
A Walk Through Sanchi
A Walk Through Sanchi, beginning at the path toward the main stupa complex, using Google Street View
The Buddhist Bas-Reliefs of Borobudur
A walk-through of the Borobudur temple carvings that depict the lives of the Buddha as told in the Jataka tales and Avadana.
The Life of the Buddha
The life of the Buddha represented in a mirador viewer with interactive text and image, based on murals at Puntshokling Monastery in the Tibetan Autonomous Region. The viewer includes annotations based on 16th–17th century Tibetan scholar Tāranātha's text "The Sun of Life . . .," the mural inscriptions themselves, notes from a painting manual, and canonical sources. Includes both Tibetan and English annotations. Project directed by Andrew Quintman and Kurtis Schaeffer.
Buddhism and Buddhist Art · MET
Overview of Buddhist art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Includes links to primary essays (featuring and explaining Buddhist artworks) and secondary essays on related topics, using certain artworks as examples. Also includes links to regional chronologies and maps, and to other online features. These include narrated slideshows with curators and an artist reflecting on encounters with artworks in the Met galleries.
Save the Buddhas in Afghanistan
ArcGIS Story Map investigating Bamiyan Buddhas.
Publication des collections de L'EFEO
Colonial-era photo library of Hindu/Buddhist statuary, inscriptions, temples, and religious life.
The Buddhist Bas-Reliefs of Borobudur
A walk-through of the Borobudur temple carvings that depict the lives of the Buddha as told in the Jataka tales and Avadana.

Cultural history

"Unlocking Buddhist Written Heritage" lecture series
Playlist of lectures dealing with Buddhist texts and textuality from across the Buddhist world. Includes lectures on: the relationship between Tibetan and Indian manuscripts, Magic and Medicine in Buddhist Texts, Theravada meditation texts from Sri Lanka, Endangered Thai Buddhist texts, South East Asian Manuscript Art, Translating Sanskrit and Tibetan texts, Buddhist Digital Resource Centre.
The development of the Buddhist canon
The Buddhist 'canon' is vast, complex and difficult to define. Here Professor Tim Barrett outlines some of the key works for the different branches of Buddhism.
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The article comes with several image galleries of different manuscripts, kept by the British Library.