War Resister Becomes Savior of
War Resister Becomes Savior of Tibet's Literature (NYT)
"There are stacks of Tibetan books in every room but the kitchen of E. Gene Smith's house here. Many are centuries old, and from the looks of things they are practically nudging Mr. Smith out the door.
The books are just a fraction of the 12,000 volumes of Buddhist and Buddhist-influenced literature that Mr. Smith began to collect in 1965, when he first went to India and found work in the Library of Congress office in New Delhi. Most of the books were brought by refugees, who had carried them over the Himalayas in their flight from the invading Chinese.
[...] He and a few employees of the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center, the nonprofit organization he founded and directs from his home, are trying to have every one of the hundreds of millions of pages scanned onto a computer and made retrievable at no cost on a Web site (tbrc.org). "