On 19 October 2026, the Buddhist Digital Resource Center published Tibetan Manuscript Transcriptions Guidelines v1. Prepared with WeBuddhist-Tech, it defines diplomatic Unicode transcription conventions for Tibetan manuscripts and woodblock prints in the BDRC Etext Corpus. [1]
The record says that more than 7,000 page images were transcribed to train Yigdzin OCR. The guide addresses punctuation, placeholders for features Unicode cannot encode, shorthand and page layout. [1]
This is a set of conventions, not independent evidence of transcription or OCR accuracy. Its empty licence field also does not grant rights to reuse any scans. [1][2]
