Jonang is an important sect in Tibetan Buddhism. However, its monks were killed and its temples were confiscated in the mid-17th century. Its literature was also destroyed and has been banned since then. Some of the Jonang literature, in the form of print blocks and handwritten folios, was excavated and brought to the western world in the 1990's. As a result, its rich teachings have been gradually discovered. Through a series of effort by organizations such as TBRC, the blocks and folios were preserved and scanned. However, most of the Jonang texts remain picture files, which cannot be searched. We at the JonangDharma.com work on further digitizing the picture files with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology and human typing in order to make text files, which can be searched, copied and pasted. We also work on collecting the available Jonang texts from various other sources, organizing them in an author-specific and topic-specific manner to reduce entropy for Jonang researchers. All service we provide is free to anyone who is interested in Jonang Dharma.
