You can read all five newly digitized papers here:
purl.bdrc.io/resource/MW1...
We’re delighted to share these foundational materials and hope they support your research and curiosity.

These essays offer a vivid glimpse of Gene’s early scholarship and the formative period of American Tibetan Studies. For a fuller account of this era, see David Jackson’s A Saint in Seattle, which chronicles Gene’s life and work.

The papers span key themes: the early history of the ’Khon family; the rise of Sa-skya power under ’Gro-mgon ’Phags-pa; nationalism and innovation in Tibetan belief; the development of the Rdo-rje-shugs-ldan cult; and Tibetan philology and literary theory.

All five papers were presented at the Inner Asia Colloquium at the University of Washington, where Gene worked closely with the great scholar Deshung Rinpoche—an intellectual partnership foundational to Tibetan Studies in the U.S.

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Over decades, Gene amassed these 30,000 pages. Each text was carefully selected for its rarity and scholarly value. Many are unique manuscripts, and others are prints that never circulated widely; most are unknown even today. They now await full-color digitization and release on BDRC. You can help!

View the FPL collection on BDRC at library.bdrc.io/show/bdr:PR1...

Please note these new texts are only findable on BUDA 2.0 beta.bdrc.io.
N.B. most of the books we OCRed for this are under copyright so we can only show you contextual search results that are similar to “snippet view” on Google Books - but we allow for unlimited searches w/in copyrighted etexts.

The new etext collection also includes many volumes of traditional and contemporary Tibetan literature, including several སྙན་ངག commentaries. Recent compositions such as essay collections, local histories, and periodicals are also heavily represented in the new cache of etexts now on BUDA 2.0.

Biographies and histories lend themselves to full text searching and the new corpus of etexts includes many of these. Highlights from the new collection are:
ས་ལུགས་ཀྱི་མཁས་པས་མཛད་པའི་བོད་ཀྱི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་རྣམ་ཐར་ཕྱོགས་བསྒྲིགས། 11 vols
རྗེ་བཙུན་ཙོང་ཁ་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་རྣམ་ཐར་ཕྱོགས་བསྒྲིགས། 4 vols
གསོ་རིག་མཁས་དབང་ཁག་གི་རྣམ་ཐར་ཕྱོགས་བསྒྲིགས། 1 vol

We’ve added dozens of volumes of *sungbums*
རྒྱལ་དབང་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་རིམ་བྱོན་གྱི་གསུང་འབུམ་དཔེ་ཚོགས། 80 vols
ཨེ་ཝཾ་བཀའ་འབུམ། 20 vols
གསུང་འབུམ། ཏཱ་ར་ནཱ་ཐ། （དཔེ་བསྡུར་མ།) 45 vols
གསུང་འབུམ། ཀུན་བཟང་བདེ་སྐྱོང་དབང་མོ། 6 vols
མཁའ་འགྲོའི་ཆོས་མཛོད་ཆེན་མོ། 53 vols
ས་སྐྱའི་ཆོས་མཛོད་ཆེན་མོ། 40 vols