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The Valmiki Ramayana Translation Project is engaged in the production of a major, new collaborative scholarly translation of this ancient literary masterpiece. The work, of which five volumes have already been published by the Princeton University Press is unique in a number of ways. It is the first and thus far the only translation of the Valmiki Ramayana to be based on the critically edited text of the poem produced according to scientific principles by the scholars of the Ramayana Department of the Oriental Institute of Baroda. In addition, it is the only translation of this great work in any language to provide a dense and comprehensive scholarly annotation in which, among numerous other text-critical, stylistic, substantive and linguistic matters, the insights, arguments, and interpretations of the rich tradition of Sanskrit commentators on the Ramayana are brought to the attention of scholars. Each volume corresponds to one of the poem’s seven kandas and is provided with an extensive scholarly introduction discussing that kanda and its role in the larger epic.

Project Madurai is an open and voluntary initiative to collect and publish free electronic editions of ancient tamil literary classics. This means either typing-in or scanning old books and archiving the text in one of the most readily accessible formats ("ETEXTS") for use on all popular computer platforms. All etexts will be distributed in both web/html and PDF formats.- Distributed through the World Wide Web servers , anyone located anywhere may download a copy for personal use or read what we publish on the internet, free of charge. http://pm.tamil.net/

This may be used to search various sentence patterns of your choice in Tamil like 'sentences with specific tense markers, participle forms, modal forms, etc.'
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/tamilweb/#corpus

Listen and Read simultaneously the spoken and written form of transcript. These radio plays were recorded on AIR and made into teaching materials; you can hear the sound, see the transcription of it, you are provided with a glossary and tagged items (cultural notes) and exercises based on the story can be completed. In authentic, rapid-fire Tamil; not for the weak of heart. (Advanced level)

This module will eventually contain a number of modern short stories by Tamil writers, and each will be provided with grammatical notes, a glossary, and some exercises to complete. For now, this module contains one story by Jayakanthan, an important modern writer. He writes in a rather difficult style, but his stories address real-life issues and contain some spoken material in authentic dialect form. You can read the story, which is provided with an English translation, a glossary, and grammatical notes.

Texts in Romanized Tibetan, Listed in English, Texts in Romanized Tibetan, Listed in Romanized Tibetan, Texts in Tibetan Script, and Selected Texts from the ACIP Collection, in English.Over 6,000 titles from the Kangyur, Tengyur and Sungbum.

A selection of classical yoga texts in the original Sanskrit script; in Romanised Sanskrit and in English.
It is crucial for yoga teachers and practitioners to retain their connection to the traditional yoga lineage preserved in these texts and we hope this CD helps to bring these classics to anyone who can benefit from their wisdom.
We are indebted to a number of great yoga masters of today - Dharma Mittra, David Life & Sharon Gannon, Rajashree Choudhury, and Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa to name a few – who offered us suggestions as to important texts to include on the CD.
http://aciprelease.org/INTERFACE/welcome.html

From the east there was a lamp of the teachings named the holy one, Chone Lama Drakpa Shedrup. He was born in the 18th century, in a place in Amdo known as Chone. He went to Sera Mey college in central Tibet to study and learn: to thoroughly master the teachings of the great scriptures. After that he returned to his birthplace and was a teacher at the great Chone Monastery where he gave extensive teachings. Of those, we have about twenty volumes. Among these are teachings on Middle Way philosophy, the Perfection of Wisdom, Discipline, Higher Knowledge, Valid Perception, the four classes of Secret teachings, as well as others.

-Geshe Yeshe Wangchuk

http://www.choneylama.com/

The St. Petersburg Catalog Project has been working since 1994, with devoted labors by a team of native scholars from Sera Mey Tibetan Monastery in South India, under the direction of the Russian library staff. It has truly been an international collaboration of Russian, Tibetan, and American citizens working together with respect and affection, producing a work that we hope will be a lasting contribution to all those who study these great books and ideas in the centuries to come. The catalog as it stands now contains more than 100,000 entries; the Tibetan input operators are typing in the entire colophon of each work, with valuable information on the Tibetan teaching lineages and other historical detail.

To see the IPA characters displayed correctly, you will need a Unicode font with glyphs for IPA characters, such as Lucida Sans Unicode (included as part of Windows NT/2000/XP) Arial Unicode MS, Code 2000 (shareware, suggested US$5 registration fee), or the free Doulos SIL.