Shantarakshita Library :: Multimedia Section

Multimedia section caters the need of all media type to facilitate the objective of this University.

This section keeps up with the changing needs and technology of the time. We were actively engaged in micro form in the decade of Eighties; in Nineties we worked with magnetic tapes of the date. Now days this section is the epicenter of digitization work for the institute.

The present web site is an output of this section to provide a digital door to the outside world who needs to know about Buddhism in general and Tibetan Buddhism in particular. The section is also a gateway for the study of Himalayan Culture and Tradition.

Multimedia Formats Available

Audio Cassettes

Audio cassettes collection includes 1823 titles in 10,112 audio cassettes. The nature of collection are mainly teaching , talks and seminar lecture by distinguished scholars in the fields of Buddhism, Tibet and Himalayan studies. We procure the title from the other institution with same interest, from recording companies and recordings made by the section itself.
Complete List (PDF)


Video Compact Disk (VCD)

With the advent of video on disk; our section has acquired around three hundred title on the subject of our interest. We are also actively engage in transferring our video on tape to the digital format on the disk, so to make our data compatible with the present age.


MP3 Format

All the audio cassettes that are being converted to compact disk are simultaneously converted to most popular audio compression format that is mp3.  Services to copy those formats are provided on any kind of media player.
Complete List (PDF)

Video Cassettes

The total number of title in video cassettes is 0000. This includes the range of subjects from philosophy to the politics of Tibet to the general road map of the Himalayan kingdom. This section pursue to acquire as many tapes on its related subjects.
Complete List (PDF)


Digital Video Disk (DVD)

Digital Video Disk is a choice of archiving our collection from our VHS format tapes. The documentaries we now acquire and produce are all in DVD format.
Complete List (PDF)


Micro Form

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Audio Compact Disks (ACD)

The project is underway to convert all the audio cassettes of our collection to compact audio disk, so as to make it readable and manipulate it on the computer machine. We have chosen to keep our original audio data on the preferred format of audio compact disk and use that as a master to convert all different audio file formats on the computer for reader services.
Complete List (PDF)


Compact Disc ROM (CD-ROM)

The section also has a large number of application multimedia compact disk; these are interactive learning based system through the use of computer. The section is going to allocate a space for that purpose and provide a reader with the computer and its operation with those interactive disks.
Complete List (PDF)


Digital Books

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Staff Members


Mr. Pema Gyalpo
Professional Assistant
Head Multimedia Section
pgyalpochen@yahoo.com


Mr. Ngawang Tsepak
Professional assistant
pgyalpochen@yahoo.com


Mr. Tenzin Wangchuk
Audio-Visual Assistant
jampaten07@gmail.com


Mr. Tenzin Dhonyoe
Semi Professional Assistant
tendon@yahoo.com