[This document can be acquired from a sub-directory coombspapers via anonymous FTP on the node COOMBS.ANU.EDU.AU] [Last updated: 13 March 1992] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT ELECTRONIC BUDDHIST ARCHIVES at Coombspapers Research Data Bank It is with the great pride, delight and cheerfulness that members of the Sydney Zen Center notify their fellow-sitters and Zen friends in Australia and overseas that a promising and well-sized kernel of the Electronic Buddhist Archives has been now well and truly established. The Electronic Buddhist Archives are designed to act as a world-wide repository of computer files with documents and materials of relevance to practitioners as well as students and researchers of Buddhism, Taoism and other eastern religions. They constitute an important part of a larger project, namely that of the COOMBSPAPERS SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEARCH DATA BANK recently created at the Australian National University, Canberra. =============================================================================== Current (end of Feb 1992) contents of the Electronic Buddhist Archives of the COOMBS.ANU.EDU.AU anonymous ftp databank =============================================================================== Abbreviations used: xxx.txt : ASCII format, a plain text file xxx.xx.Z : compressed file. To make it readible again use UNIX command 'uncompress filename' (eg. uncompress tibetan-buddhism-2bibl.txt.Z) All documents listed below can be acquired from a sub-directory coombspapers via anonymous FTP on the node COOMBS.ANU.EDU.AU. coombspapers/otherwork/electronic-buddhist-archives/buddhism-general buddhist-etexts-info.txt - 1990 list of machine-readable Buddhist texts projects canonical-buddhist-texts.txt - a summary list of Canonical Buddhist texts coombspapers/otherwork/electronic-buddhist-archives/buddhism-tibet sakya-lam-bras-bibl.txt.Z - Lama Choedak T. Yuthok's complete catalogue of Sakya Lam 'Bras literature tibetan-buddhism-1bibl.txt.Z - Dr Geoffrey Samuel's references (up to early 1991) to research on Tibetan societies and tibetan-buddhism-2bibl.txt.Z religion (Buddhism & shamanism) coombspapers/otherwork/electronic-buddhist-archives/buddhism-zen about-diamond-sangha.txt - inf. leaflet (c. 1990) about-sydney-zen-centre.txt - inf. leaflet (c. 1987) daily-zen-sutras.txt - Sanbo Kyodan (Three Treasures) sutras (in English) meals-zen-sutras.txt - Sanbo Kyodan (Three Treasures) sutras (in English) modern-zen-bibl.txt - references to modern Zen Buddhism (1600- present) zen-precepts.txt - Sanbo Kyodan (Three Treasures) sutras (in English) zen-shodoka.txt - Sanbo Kyodan (Three Treasures) sutras (in English) =============================================================================== The Coombspapers databank was established in December 1991 by the Coombs Computing Unit, ANU as the world's major electronic repository of the social science & humanities papers, offprints, departmental publications, bibliographies, directories, abstracts of theses and other high-grade research material dealing with the Pacific Region, SouthEast as well as NorthEast Asia produced (or deposited) at the Research Schools of Pacific Studies and Social Sciences, at the Australian National University. The Coombspapers databank (and therefore the contents of it's Electronic Buddhist Archives subdirectory) can be accessed (and it's collection copied) free of charge from anywhere in the world using the standard anonymous FTP (ftp = file transfer protocol) procedure by anyone with an access to the Internet computer network. It is hoped that the extraordinary ease and speed with which documents and materials forming the EBA collection can be located, copied, duplicated and transmitted from person to person, from Sangha to Sangha, from city to city, from continent to continent will foster daily regular exchange of information and ideas between students and practitioners of Buddhism all over this planet. Maybe, one day, this instantaneous communicational immediacy will facilitate the birth of a vast, harmonious and intricate Earth-wide Sangha. =============================================================================== To login to Coombspapers databank (from anywhere in the world) or any other anonymous ftp archive: type command ftp address.address.address.country e.g. ftp coombs.anu.edu.au then at the name-prompt type anonymous e.g. anonymous then at the password-prompt type your e-mail address e.g.tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au To get a listing of the current directory of this electronic archive use commands ls (to get a listing of the current directory). To move one step down the directory-tree type command cd "directoryname" (e.g. to move to a directory "abc/xyz" issue command cd abc/xyz). To move one step up the directory - tree type command cd .. (= cd, space, double full-stop). To copy a file to one's own computer type command get "filename" (e.g. get zen-shodoka.txt). To deposit a file within the Coombspapers depositing area [= /coombspapers/inboundpapers area] use command put "filename" (eg. put zen-shodoka.txt). To close connection to an anonymous ftp site use command bye. =============================================================================== Teachers, students and researchers of Buddhism as well as teachers, students and researchers of other eastern religions are wholeheartedly invited to deposit with the Electronic Buddhist Archives of the Coombspapers databank any high-grade documents pertaining to Buddhist matters or studies as long as these documents are not already copyrighted by someone else and as long as the deposited documents may be freely disseminated via the AARNET/INTERNET and other academic networks. Any quality documents - such as bibliographies, research documents, abstracts of scholarly papers, journal and newsletters articles, lists of Buddhist centers and organisations, policy documents of such organisations, transcripts of lectures, sermons and teishos given by contemporary Buddhist teachers, translations of the modern day as well as ancient religious texts and commentaries, samples and specimens of fine Buddhist prose and poetry - all these documents may be sent electronically to the Coombspapers and be deposited there (using the ftp command 'put') in the /coombspapers/inboundpapers area of the Coombspapers electronic archive. There they will be evaluated by the administrators of the Coombspapers Social Sciences Research Data Bank and then, upon being accepted for the archive's collection, suitably named and placed in appropriate sub-directory. Individuals and Buddhist groups without a convenient access to the network may supply the archival materials on a computer disk (DOS or Macintosh) with all files saved as plain text (ASCII) documents. Also, an important point: the Electronic Buddhist Archives are NOT ABLE, unfortunately, to accept for the safe-keeping and dissemination the non-electronic (i.e. paper) documents. Finally, please note that the ANU's Coombs Computing Unit, who administers and maintains the Coombspapers archives, reserves the right to exclude from the Coombspaper electronic collection any document found to be unsuitable because of its scope, content, format or size. Please direct any inquiries or correspondence to: Dr T. Matthew Ciolek, Coombspapers Administrator, Coombs Computing Unit, RSPacS/RSSS, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia ph +61 6 249 4016 (w); e-mail (INTERNET) tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- end of file