Chinese Studies Advanced Guide

The Chinese Religious Text Authority (CRTA) is a project that seeks to collect and present reliable bibliographic and scholarly information about religious texts in Chinese produced prior to 1949.

A comprehensive online quantitative and qualitative encyclopedia of religious cultural history based at the University of British Columbia.

A comprehensive, open, online bibliography for the field of Buddhist studies, managed by H-Buddhism, the online network of scholars of Buddhism

A cooperative platform for expanding access to Buddhist literature. Explore the millions of pages of texts contributed by BDRC and its many partners. Registration required for full access.

This is the homepage of The Study and Creation of Buddhist Lexicographical Resources project, and the website is built and maintained by the Digital Archive Division, Dharma Drum Buddhist College (DDBC). The website has powerful tools for researching Buddhism.

Buddhist Studies Online was founded by Seth Powell in 2021 to provide continued educational services for the broader community interested in learning more about Buddhism. Buddhist Studies Online aims to bridge the gap between the meditation cushion and the academy—seeking to make accessible the highest quality and most cutting-edge research on Buddhism for practitioners and students.

A resource guide for public use compiled by The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford.

This tool, developed by the Dharma Drum Buddhist College, covers the period from 220 BC to 1912 AD. It can also convert years from the Chinese calendar into western, Japanese and Korean years, and from western to Chinese, Japanese and Korean years.

This website has a rich collection of Tripitaka texts and useful research tools for Buddhism studies.

Gazetteers or local histories are a distinct genre of Chinese historiography. Usually written by scholars interested in a region, city or temple, gazetteers are compilations of a variety of texts. They are treasure houses containing topographical descriptions, biographies, poems, maps, portraits, miracle stories and much more. The aim of the project is to tap into this wealth of information in order to deepen our understanding of Chinese Buddhist history.

DDBTC is dedicated to collecting and constructing multi-lingual Tripitaka catalogues. Through key words searching users will conveniently acquire comprehensive information on various editions and versions of Tripitaka catalogues, and links to the corresponding full-text.

An open-access database includes a variety of materials from Dunhuang caves.

The library collects Buddhist bibliographies (456,439 entries ) with a database of 105,269 full text Buddhist articles in 45 languages and 15 different types of data.

On this site you will find information about mandalas and how they are created. You can learn about how mandalas heal and more about Tibetan Buddhism. Images of the mandala’s construction can be found on the Mandala page. By the Smithsonian's Museums of Asian Art.

The SAT Daizōkyō Text Database Committee has opened its data for public use with the full approval of Daizō Shuppan Kabushiki Kaisha, the original publisher of the Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō. It is easy to browse chapters or search full-text by Chinese characters. This website is maintained by Kyoto University.

The China Historical Christian Database is a new digital tool for the study of Chinese Christianity from 1550 to 1950.

The Divinity Library holds extensive manuscript and archival material related to missionary work and the Christian church in China. Records of nearly 400 former China missionaries and many organizations are represented, primarily from the years 1832 to 1950. T

The Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database) is a research database of primary and secondary sources concerning cultural contacts between China and Europe from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries (ca. 1582-1840). It contains documents relating to various aspects of cultural interaction: religious, philosophical, scientific and artistic, etc.

Christianity Collection 基督教傳教士文獻

A digital tool for the study of Chinese Christianity from 1550 to 1950. Includes mapping and network analysis tools. Dataset can be downloaded for offline use. Click "beta" in the top navigation bar to enter the database.

This online project is developed by the Kingdom Business college in Beijing/China and Globethics.net in Geneva/Switzerland. This collection has already over 35'000 carefully selected full text documents on Chinese Christianity and culture and a detailed classification tree. It is the fruit of the cooperation of many leading institutions on Chinese Christianity.

A UMN archive of records YMCA International Work in China, housed at Elmer L. Andersen Library.

As a result of growing interest in the historical contact between China and Western religious affiliations, the Ricci Institute created the Ricci 21st Century Roundtable Database (the Ricci Roundtable), a Web database, which allows users to browse and search information related to contributions of Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox missionaries.

The BDCC is an electronic database containing the essential biographical facts of Chinese and foreign Christian missionaries, church leaders, evangelists, and laity chiefly responsible for laying the foundations and advancing the growth of Chinese Christian communities and their influence in societies around the world. While the database is widely inclusive of time periods and faith traditions, the distinctive focus of the project is on the lesser-known Chinese Christians of the modern era (1800 to 1950).

Special Collections at the Yale Divinity School Library include more than 6000 linear feet of archival material, archivally-treated pamphlet collections, and microform holdings.

The Christian materials in the New Chinese gazetteers.

A Harvard Library photo collection on Chinese Minority ethnic groups' religious beliefs.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Library maintains a precious collection of more than twenty Daoist texts of the Qing Dynasty. Originated from the Daoist abbeys in Luofu Mount in Guangdong, some of the textures arrived in Hong Kong from Daoist temples in Guangdong and nearby areas probably after the Republican period. The collectors donated the scriptures to Chung Chi College Elisabeth Luce Moore Library in the 50s of the last century.

The database has 3830 records of materials covers Daoism, Buddhism and Medicine. Each record has the metadata and full text of the book. The database is searchable, browsable, and also can be visualized and exported.

Israel's Messenger was the world's first Zionist publication. Its goal was mainly to inform its readers of the activities of the Sephardic communities in China, Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore and also of other Jewish communities in China and, from time to to time, world news were also featured.

Compiled by Joseph Adler, retired in 2014, who was the professor at the Kenyon College.