rKTs is gathering and integrating all available e-texts of canonical sources into its search functions. Thanks to the great generosity of ALL (Asian Legacy Library), which provided rKTs with a set of e-texts from the Narthang Tengyur, it is now possible to search the contents of this collection in full text. These e-texts represent an important addition to the data already available for the Derge Tengyur. In fact, the Narthang Tengyur includes more texts than the Derge edition, which were not previously available as e-texts.
The production of this data was carried out under the direction of ALL and involved seven years of intensive work of manual input, a task that was completed under female leadership in three different centers of Tibetan communities in South India. rKTs is extremely grateful and proud to be associated with this project and to be able to disseminate the data through the rKTs archive.
The next step in the deeper integration of this data into the rKTs database will be to align the Narthang Tengyur with the available e-text of the Derge edition. This will allow rKTs users to switch directly between the two editions and hence facilitate comparative studies between different canonical sources. For now, the e-text is available and listed among the other details of that particular work in the Narthang Tengyur (ID, title, e-text, location, colophon).
