Reader/Collection
Texts & translations

Many texts. One quiet place.

A place for
close reading.

Read English and Tibetan, one section at a time. Switch languages without losing your place. A growing collection, drawn directly from its source repositories.

The collection

Texts · Live sources

Read English translations alongside their source texts. New files appear automatically.

Room for a growing collection.

No texts have been published here yet. You can open a Markdown file of your own, or explore the reading page.

Paper, ink, and a little space for thought.Local files are not uploaded.

Bring a text to the reading room

Open a manuscript

Open Markdown files, paste text, or follow a public link. No account or upload is needed.

Paste Markdown instead

Imported files are read locally, not uploaded. A private GitHub file may not be fetchable here even when you are signed in to GitHub; open its downloaded Markdown instead. Linked images may load from their source sites.

Texts in this work

Choose a work

    View translation source

    Choose a published English translation; its paired source loads alongside it. Each opening checks the latest published file. Reading already in progress is never replaced without your choice.

    In this volumeType to search
    Search the current manuscript in English or Tibetan.

    Make yourself at home

    The reading page

    Page palette
    20 px
    AaAa
    Line length
    1.88

    A little space for the words.
    བོད་ཡིག

    Note

    The manuscript, unchanged

    Manuscript & source

    The original Markdown is preserved exactly as loaded.

    An offline reading copy embeds this manuscript inside a new HTML file. It does not include linked images, other volumes, or your reading history. Keep private manuscripts private when sharing the copy.

    Colophon

    A reader, not a facsimile.

    Paper, ink, a fine rule, and a vermilion reading mark. The page borrows the restraint of a printed book without imitating a historical edition or adding symbols to the source.

    English and Tibetan remain in the order supplied by the publisher. Heading levels, emphasis, quotations, tables, and notes are rendered from the Markdown; no translation is generated or corrected.

    One reader, many works

    Reader is the home for the collection. Inside a reading room, the open work supplies its own title, source title, and credits. No book, author, or tradition is assigned to an unidentified manuscript.

    The collection is separate from the manuscripts opened in this session. Published works are defined in the reader configuration with their English and source URLs. The reader checks for updates on opening and every five minutes while the page is visible. Local imports are not saved to a collection or uploaded. Switch works without changing the reader.

    Your place stays yours

    Reading positions, bookmarks, and appearance preferences stay in this browser’s storage. Imported manuscripts are held in memory only, unless you explicitly save an offline reading copy. There is no analytics code. Noto Sans Tibetan is bundled with the reader.

    Keyboard shortcuts

    Search this text
    / or Ctrl / ⌘ K
    Toggle focus mode
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    Bookmark this position
    B
    Open a manuscript
    L
    Dismiss dialog / leave focus mode
    Esc

    Rendering engine: Marked 4.0.19 (MIT), embedded with its license. Parsed content is rebuilt through a restrictive DOM allowlist; scripts, styles, forms, embedded frames, and unsafe URL schemes are not rendered. The typography specimen is interface documentation, not a translation of the source.

    A book to take with you

    Export an EPUB

    The open manuscript, made into a reflowable book. Your reading device chooses the page size and type size.

    Section navigation, citations, tables, and linked endnotes travel with the text.

    Created entirely on your device. Nothing is uploaded. Only the current manuscript is included.