The CTS corpus contains e-texts of Sanskrit sources relating to
Purpose and Content
The CTS e-texts are digital text files of primary tantric sources, presented solely for the purpose of teaching, research or private study.
CTS e-texts are prefaced with front matter referring to the sources used, crediting the author/editor, and recording date and version of input. They are presented as plain Unicode text with no markup, typographic embellishment, annotations or critical apparatus.
As we aim to provide a high quality of e-text, corrections may be made silently where it is considered appropriate. To read the text as originally presented, in all cases it is necessary to refer to the original sources (listed in our e-texts bibliography). CTS e-texts deriving from published material are therefore amended extracts, not duplications or republications.
All CTS e-texts currently available are circulated with the permission of the creators of the original works, who retain full rights to and ownership of these works.
Format
CTS e-texts are digital text files in Unicode (UTF-8) encoding. They are viewable and searchable under Unicode-compatible operating systems (please refer to our notes on encoding standards and viewing).
Sources
A source may qualify for inclusion if it meets any of the following criteria:
- a published text which the CTS has been explicitly permitted to distribute in digital form;
- a published text which lies in the public domain, or for which no copyright has been asserted, or which are determined to be orphan works;
- an unpublished transcription or edition of a text which has been donated to the CTS;
- a digital text incorporated from other sources (such as the internet), used with permission.
All e-texts in the corpus are provided “as is” without guarantee.
The Growth of the Corpus
Our first e-texts were offered at the inauguration of the CTS in 2007. We are gradually expanding the corpus of e-texts, and aim eventually to offer a comprehensive resource.
We actively encourage contributions from specialists. In addition, we gratefully welcome permission to use already published texts, or transcriptions from unpublished manuscript sources. Any publication of a quality e-text can certainly be regarded as a contribution to scholarship.
Sample Citation Format
We suggest the following sample format for published citations of our e-texts:
Ratnākaraśānti. Hevajrasahajasadyoga. UTF8-encoded e-text (http://tantric-studies.org/e-texts/bauddha/HeSaSa.txt). Based on Isaacson (2002a). Hamburg: Centre for Tantric Studies, 2007.
Conditions of Use
Digital e-texts in the CTS corpus may be viewed online or downloaded for private study. The CTS e-texts may not under any circumstances be redistributed, republished, reproduced, or sold either in original or altered form without permission in writing.
• Please send submissions or enquiries about our corpus to our contact address.