digitize the 12,000 volume corpus of Tibetan literature. This digital library is the largest collection of Tibetan literature outside of Tibet. TBRC continues to acquire, preserve, organize and make available Tibetan texts. In 2001, Wisdom Publications published Among Tibetan Texts, a collection of essays that Smith wrote back in his Delhi times, as introductions to Library of Congress reprints of Tibetan texts. As introductions to Tibetan literature, culture and history, these had circulated since the early 1980s amongst students and researchers, and had acquired a sort of cult status. A chapter is also devoted to Smith in David Jackson's biography of Dezhung Rinpoche, "A Saint in Seattle." He is the subject of the award-winning documentary Digital Dharma. Variety called the film "an affectionate tribute to the late E. Gene Smith, the scholar, librarian and ex-Mormon who waged a 50-year struggle to save the endangered texts of Tibetan Buddhism." It received a theatrical release and was invited to qualify for Academy Award consideration by the International Documentary Association through the 2012 DocuWeeks program. Publications References Sources Schaeffer, Kurtis R. Introduction p. 1-9 in E. Gene Smith, Among Tibetan Texts, Wisdom Publications, 2001. Obituary in the Washington Post External links One Man's Mission to Save a Culture | Digital Dharma Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC) Tibetan Culture Finds Digital Saviour - BBC Article Tibetologists 1936 births 2010 deaths American Buddhists Former Latter Day Saints Tibetan Buddhists from the United States Writers from Ogden, Utah University of Washington alumni Adelphi University alumni University of Utah alumni Converts to Buddhism from Christianity American former Christians