Muktabodha Indological Research Institute

Identify, discover, and procure access to rare manuscripts of Indian Spiritual Traditions. Scan and photograph items to archive in Digital Library. Create and maintain Digital Library for scholarly research. Support translation of such materials into today's languages.

Create Muktabodha India Trust as a partner organization headquartered in India. Identify prominent scholars who can identify items of interest in India and around the world. Create an Academic Advisory Council to create and approve proposals. Develop a technical team to design and maintain an internet based Digital Library containing scanned items, catalog information, as well as transliteration of texts and continue to evolve the capabilities of the library. Create translations grants so that scholars can translate the material. Make non-scholars who are interested in preserving India's spiritual wisdom aware of Muktabodha's work.

Muktaboda has a board of directors dedicated to the mission. There is an Academic Advisory council of seven scholars dedicated to Indology. Several scholars travel to India on a regular basis. There is also an Information Technology professional supporting the development of the Digital Library, a marketing professional, and fund raising professional on staff. All staff members including the Advisory Council and the Board, offer their time and effort at no cost to Muktabodha. In India, there is a group of trustees, and a staff of typists who provide transliteration services working with a prominent scholar. Muktabodha also has relationships with prominent scholars on a fee basis. A financial officer is in charge of all financial matters.

There are roughly 2600 items in our Digital Library. We have completed most of the very important Kashmir Shaivism manuscripts through a well known Scholar from Varanasi India. We have added rare Gokarna manuscripts to the library. We developed a Vedic school (Vedashala) to preserve the ancient oral Vedic traditions. The schools is now its own independent trust in India. We have offered several fellowship grants to scholars. Our next projects are to evolve the technology of the Digital Library so that more scholars can use it, create a larger team in India to support the scholarly work, identify additional areas of Indian traditions whose material is in danger in being lost forever. We also intend to create translation grant projects.