Is there a digitised Kanjur?

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Suttacentral has the Pali and excellent translations of same.
Cbeta has the Chinese.
Dharmapearls has excellent translations from the Chinese
BDRC has great photographs of Tibetan manuscripts.
84000 has excellent translations from the Tibetan.

Is there a site with the Tibetan language texts digitised?

Buddhanexus seems to have many of them, but as far as I can tell the only access I have is from an enormous drop down list?

Is there an indexed database that someone has access to?

This seems to me a pretty major desiderata considering we are talking about one of the 3 great existing canons of Buddhist literature in the world.

Metta

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OK, maybe I have managed to answer my own question?

https://online.adarshah.org/index.html?kdb=degekangyur&sutra=d1&page=1-1b

This appears to be an amazing, sophisticated and versatile project for the display of both images of an original Derge Kanjur manuscript and digitised text of the same.

So far, so amazing.

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Thanks for the question and the answer, I didn’t know about that site.

There are a couple of other digitized Kanjurs, though I am no expert.

The Tibetan texts on SC are from the Tibetan and Himalayan Library.

https://www.thlib.org/encyclopedias/literary/canons/kt/catalog.php#cat=kt/d/0032/text/v034p180b

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