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[Last updated: 11 October 1993]
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ABOUT ELECTRONIC BUDDHIST ARCHIVES 
at Coombspapers, the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

The Electronic Buddhist Archives are designed to act as a world-wide
repository of computer files with documents and materials of relevance
to students and researchers of Buddhism, Taoism, Sufism and other Asian
religions. They constitute an important part of a larger project, namely
that of the COOMBSPAPERS SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEARCH DATA BANK created at
the Australian National University, Canberra.

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, 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 Gopher software
and/or 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. Since September 1993 the EBA
has established fruitful co-operation with the DharmaNet International
 of Berkeley, California, USA.
	
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 
e-mail (INTERNET) coombspapers@coombs.anu.edu.au
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