MATREYA · Journal & news

Texts & tools — Buddhism and science: the Matreya journal

Research explainers, text-preservation tools and a public diary of our work.

Texts & tools · October 27, 2026

MITRA-lexicon: a corpus-based record of how Sanskrit Buddhist terms were rendered in Tibetan, Chinese and English

A new open resource links 10.4 million attested translation pairs to their sentences in Buddhist parallel corpora. What it contains, how reliable it is, which licences apply and how to use it carefully.

Texts & tools · October 27, 2026

BDRC to demonstrate Yigdzin Tibetan OCR at an open webinar on 28 October

A free BDRC webinar presents a Tibetan OCR model, its limitations and a practical way to check results.

Texts & tools · October 25, 2026

One Buddhist manuscript page, eight fields: a small OCR pilot that preserves context

An illustrative source record for permission-aware digitisation, correction history and future Buddhist text datasets.