Recently, our cooperation partner BDRC announced on social media (here and here) that the second edition of the Bon Kanjur, printed in northern Sichuan in 1987, is now available online through their BUDA archive.
rKTs, which specialises in the cataloguing of large canonical collections, has set about creating an electronic version of the catalogue for this second edition of the Bon Kanjur. Titles have been entered into the database and images have been linked to allow direct reading of the texts.
Searching for a specific title is done in the same way as before for Buddhist canonical texts. Only an additional category of Bon Kanjur titles has been added to the search results.
For each text, details can be displayed such as title, location in the Bon Kanjur, colophons and other notes.
A link connects the data to the images. The images can then be viewed directly in the rKTs viewer tool.
Now, the Bon Kanjur has its place alongside the Buddhist canon in the rKTs archive, making it easier to compare these two traditions of Tibetan culture.
Other resources will be added over time to create, as with the Buddhist canon, a modern, powerful tool for navigating the canonical literature of the Bon tradition.