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01: Tattvajñānasaṁsiddhiḥ / /
Update :Feburary 15th, 2008

02: Svayambhū Purāṇa / / M.B.Shakya & Shanta H. Bajracharya.
Update : Feburary 27th, 2008

03: Siddhārthacaritakāvyam / Ācārya Buddhaghoṣa / Dwarika D. Shastri
Update : May 22nd, 2008

04: Avadānaśatakam / Ācārya Vasubandhu / J. S. Speyer
Update : June 2nd, 2008

05: Sarvatathāgata Tattvasaṅgrah / / Lokesh Candra
Update: June 16th, 2008

06: Śrāvakabhūmiḥ / Ācārya Asaṅga /
Update: June 24th, 2008

07: Satyasiddhiśāstram / Harivarmma / B. J. Sandesara
Update: July 21st, 2008

Ven Dr. Jue Ji, recently appointed as a DSBC Project Supervisor and she is the Director of the Institute for Research and Advanced Studies in Chinese Buddhism, University of the West. She obtained her PhD at Center of Buddhist Studies, HKU.  She was the Associate Director at the Study of Humanistic Buddhism, CUHK in 2006-2008.  Her academic interest includes the history of Modern Chinese Buddhism, Contemporary Social Issues and Buddhism, the movement of Humanistic Buddhism in Contemporary China, etc.

DSBC Project has participated in the UN Vesak Day Celebration in Hanoi, Viet Nam, May 15-17. Mr. Min Bahadur Shakya presented a paper on "A 21st Century Tripitaka: The Development of the Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon." The UNDV 2008 is hosted by the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and co-organised by the IOC and the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha.

The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI), in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of the West, has formed the Sanskrit Web Working Group (SWWG), with a goal of increasing the quantity, uniformity, utility, and longevity of Sanskrit and other Indic texts on the Web.  As a first step, the Working Group is developing appropriate standards, practices, and tools, using the Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Website as a test case.