Old Tibetan Documents Online

IOL Tib J 750 : Copyright of the British Library, courtesy of IDP

Old Tibetan Documents Online (OTDO) is a corpus of selected Old Tibetan texts (VIIth to XIIth centuries): Dunhuang manuscripts, Inscriptions and related materials. We provide critically edited texts together with search and KeyWord In Context (KWIC) facilities.

It currently contains:

282 critically edited texts
108 combinations of critically edited texts and IIIF images from the Gallica collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the International Dunhuang Programme collection of the British Library
345 relevant references

The beta version of e-texts in Tibetan characters in UTF-8 coding is also available (⇒ Old Tibetan Documents Online བོད་ཡིག).

Funded by the Information Resource Center (IRC), it is based at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

News

November 26, 2024

Linked IIIF images of Tibetan documents: 15 items from the Gallica collection and 26 items from the International Dunhuang Programme collection.

April 1, 2024

Added 40 new texts of Tibetan documents.

April 9, 2023

Linked 14 seals stamped on two Tibetan letter documents with IIIF images in the Gallica collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Linked two Tibetan miscellany documents with IIIF images from the Gallica collection.
Added 31 new texts of Tibetan documents.

January 24, 2022

We renewed the OTDO website. We have introduced a system to display the revised text created by the OTDO project in contrast with the digital images of the Pelliot Tibétain collection provided by the Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France.

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