Incidentally, they currently have a donor who is matching donations 1-for-1, so if anyone wants to support them, now’s a good time.
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Thanks Bhante.
I cant access the link.
While in this discussion I wish to share a another wonderful project accomplished in Sri Lanka.
Construction and Destruction
Eight centuries after the haughty historic creations of the statues of Galvihara Polonnaruwa, another sinhala hero is leading the way today to regenerate the last historic pride of our past. The person who shoulder this Herculean task of regenerating the down trodden splendor glory and magnificence of the nation, is a Venerable Sinhala Buddhist monk. He is Ven. Egodamulla Amaramoli Threro, the chief incumbent of Vidyasagara Priven Vihara, Monaragala, Rambodagalla, Rideegama, Kurunegala, Ven. Amaramoli Thero is shouldering the gigantic task of carving the Samadhi Buddha Statue 67.5 feet high, utilizing a massive rock situated in the temple Premises, once the carving is completed it will go down in the history as the largest rock carved. Buddha Statue in Sri Lanka.
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Perhaps we should start a world wide Tipitakadhara challenge.
How do monks memorise Sutta
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First noteworthy aspect: When the OP author posted, the same day, a nearly identical question on the DhammaWheel forum, in both cases, the relative powers-that-be immediately responded reassuringly, suspiciously so, and discussion went on from there about the various ins-and-outs of a noble quest to counteract anicca.
One comment noted:
“Not rarely, online interactions are low-efficacy, low-committment, low-quality. From that perspective, it would actually help to shut down various online Buddhist establishments.”
It’s laborious enough trying to sift through material here (either, any forum) while it’s still fresh; imagine some poor anthropologist a millennium or so down the road trying to make sense of it. 
In my own case, I do occasionally note how fishing for something to add a post about somewhere on a forum reeks of a sort of tanha, the need for some burningly salient viewpoint to “become”; not to mention archiving stuff locally here for future reference as clearly a form of upadana, like stock-piling food or firewood…
sujato 2016-12-16 23:59:21 UTC #2
“Digital data is by its nature transient, and there is no guarantee that any of the data that exists today will survive the many existential threats we face.”
improvateur 2016-12-17 07:57:12 UTC #6
“As technology changes, the problem becomes how to migrate information to the new ‘standard.’ And who will keep a functional museum of obsolete equipment with which to extract data from outdated media that turn up from time to time.”
The picture takes on a certain vividness when one’s been around the block a time or two. After paper-tape and punch cards (I still have boxes of the Fortran II code for Max Matthews’ original “Music V” program), then came ½-inch mag tapes and 3/4-inch DEC-tapes; then 8-inch floppies; I still have boxes of 5-1/4 inch “floppies” (Apple ][ vintage), and 3.5 inch rigid floppies, original low-density and generations of higher densities; not to mention Zip-drives; then CDs, CVDs, and now rapidly proliferating generations of USB media. In another 10-20 years will any of this be readable on then “state-of-the-art” devices? As the old-timers die out, perhaps new generations will take a fascination with resurrecting media.
re: After ten years, Buddhist Geeks shuts down - Lions Roar
That something with the label “geek” lasts no more than 10 years – another occasion for Steven Levine’s memorable exclamation “Big Surprise!” (Who remembers him?). With luck, the effects of which (geekdom) will also wear-off, and Buddha Dhamma will again have a life of its own – oral memorization and person-to-person transmission of practice and realization of the teaching.
btw: Some flavors of “geek” lifestyle are comparable to monastic life, or at least “ascetic” – working 20-hour days for months on end. (Think the apocryphal story of Bill Gates showing up for a meeting with high-level IBM executives in clothes he worn for a week or so of all-nighters.) And s/t the spirit of the “warrior”, like the once famed and universally feared Knights Templar: monastic warriors with religious fervor and no fear of death. (Think present-day “jihad” warriors.) As in the fad here in Silicon Valley over the last few years of “hacker Dojos”, where kids hang-out all hours of the day glued to keyboards and screens. The “soterilogical” aspect is just a bit different; no particular goal, other than perhaps spawning a viral “start-up” and becoming a billionaire overnight.
Can we preserve the Buddha’s teaching for another 5000 years?
Perhaps we can. It seems the technology is now available.
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If the early Sangha could memorise the teachings, perhaps we could
too
Personally, I have been using SC much more than any other website; not for the discussion but for the study. I have learned so much (for myself) thanks to the superb sutta search & research tools, which allows looking up all suttas & contexts where certain Pali words or phrases are used.
Discussion forums are many, full of subjective opinions. But opportunities to study the Dhamma suttas deeply are rare.
Make hay while the sun shines, for how know what tomorrow will bring?
With metta 
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