Standards
Content on the CTS website is encoded according to the UTF-8 (Unicode) standard. Common questions about this standard, and how it relates to the digital representation of South Asian languages, are addressed in the Unicode Consortium’s Indic Scripts and Languages FAQ.
For our readers’ reference we offer a list of diacritics used in our e-texts (non-exhaustive): diacritics-table.txt.
Viewing the CTS site
The Unicode-encoded text offered on our website may be viewed in most current web browsers or with standard text editors on any Unicode-compatible operating system. If viewing in a browser, please ensure that your browser is set to automatically recognise UTF-8 encoding. (For example, in Firefox, use ‘View > Character Encoding’; in Safari, ‘View > Text Encoding’; in Internet Explorer, ‘View > Encoding’.)
Our website is authored on and tailored for use with Debian Linux, and has also been tested successfully under Windows 2000/XP/Vista and Mac OS X. For best viewing results we recommend installing the FreeSerif and FreeSans fonts from the FreeFont project.
Our Logo
The logo of the Centre for Tantric Studies, visible in the header of our website, depicts an oṁ syllable within an ādhāra-cakra of the subtle body. The notion of a subtle body is shared by both Śaiva and Buddhist tantric traditions, and the details of the design derive from a cakra diagram shown in a medieval Nepalese manuscript.
Updates
Tantric-studies.org was inaugurated on June 9, 2007. Major updates, news items and additions of content are generally announced on our home page. Readers can be automatically advised of changes by subscribing to our RSS feed. Some brief information about how to subscribe using RSS is given on the RSS specification website.
The site is powered by open-source software and is at present maintained by Iain Sinclair. Enquiries on matters related to the website should be sent to our contact address.