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[Last updated: 13 March 1992]
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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.
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Current (end of Feb 1992) contents of the Electronic Buddhist Archives
of the COOMBS.ANU.EDU.AU anonymous ftp databank
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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)
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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.
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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.
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	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
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