Buddhist Digital Resource Center

Buddhist Digital Resource Center or TBRC (old name for old old) is the place where you could find scans of over 15 million scanned Tibetan pages. This was the life time achievement of E. Gene Smith who was instrumental in preserving a majority of the Tibetan material available today, first in form of re-prints and then later as scanned material.

You need a login account to access and download material. Today the web site has Tibetan OCR support in forms of doing text searches by typing Wylie or UTF-8 Tibetan, this way you could find surprising material. The site is also curated in forms of tradition collections, author གསུང་འབུམ་ collections and much more. For example the Five Sakya Patriarchs collected writings are available there.

Recently it has hosted also scanned works that has copyrights notices so only the first and last twenty pages are available -- somewhat astounding as the original writers have not been around for hundreds of years. But that's how it is, usually these are book prints done by recent Indian and Nepalese printing houses. There's a good chance you could find the original wood print versions -- which is good as when looking at re-prints, mistakes crawl in and the best source of truth are the original wood prints.