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Click one of the links below to jump to a topic or tutorial to learn how to use the different features of the Adarshah search engine.

Search by Sutra ID // Things to be aware of when searching // Set the search parameters // Switch between languages on mobile device // Download texts // Search by Text Name // Search All Texts and Settings on mobile devices

Search by Sutra ID

You can search by Sutra ID in the global search field. The Sutra ID is:

sutra code + the sequential chapter of text in the sutra

So if we want to search the 16th text in the Diamond Sutra:

Dege Kangyur d + 16th text = sutra ID d16

SUTRA	CODE
Dege Kangyur	d
Dege Tengyur	DT
Lijiang Kangyur	J
8th Karmapa entire collection	8KM
Gampopa entire collection	GM
Guorenpa entire collection	GR
Tsongkhapa entire collection	JTs
JTs, Mipham entire collection	MP

Things to be aware of when searching

If you enter “ཀ་ལིང་ཀའི་རྒྱལ་པོ” (King of Kalinga) then you cannot find the works of the King of Kalinga “ཀ་ལིང་ཀའི་རྒྱལ་པོས”. This is because the system will only search for the one syllable “པོ་” and not search for works created by the appropriate person denoted by the syllable “པོས་”. So when searching using the Tibetan language please remember that the search is conducted based on each syllable.

Set the search parameters

If you want to narrow down the search parameters when searching the entire collection, you can select the appropriate conditions under the classifications, lineage, age, category scroll down menus. You can narrow down your search by clicking on the search button and selecting the appropriate sutra name, translator, reviser or author, etc. For example, if we only want to search within the Diamond Sutra of the Dege Kangyur：

click on the category scroll down menu
click on the Dege Kangyur
type in The Diamond Sutra in the search field
read the text of the sutra by clicking on each search result

You can also enter it in the Tibetan language：

click on the category scroll down menu
selecting the Dege Kangyur under the category
enter the Diamond Sutra in Tibetan ”རྡོ་རྗེ་གཅོད་པ” in the search field
read the text of the sutra by clicking on each search result

Switch between languages on mobile device

click the menu icon on the top right-hand side of the website
after the page is loaded, you can see options on the bottom
click the language option to change the set language of the website

Download texts

The computer based version of the website allows a download function to allow for users to read texts when they are not connected to the internet. Follow these steps：

go to the text contents page
click the download texts button on the right top-hand corner
choose to download the scripture or chapter
after downloading the text onto your computer [1], please unzip the zip file [2]

[1] Chrome: click here Safari: click here [2] Windows: right-click it, select Extract All, and then follow the instructions Mac: double-click the zip file and the file or folder will be decompressed into the same folder the compressed file is in

Search by Text Name

If we want to search for “འཕགས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་རྡོ་རྗེ་གཅོད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།” (Prajnaparamita) all you need to do is:

enter the key terms of the text name “རྡོ་རྗེ་གཅོད་པ” in the search field of the ADARSHAH homepage
click on the search button
after system produce all related results, selects the desired text to read

Other than using the Tibetan name of a text, we can also search using the key words of the Chinese name of the text:

enter the key terms of the text name “金剛般若” in the search field of the ADARSHAH homepage
click on the search button
after system produce all related results, selects the desired text to read

Search All Texts and Settings on mobile devices

click the menu icon on the top right-hand corner
clicking on the ‘Search’ option
entering in keywords into the search field on the Search page (if you don’t want to narrow down your search, please ignore step 4 and step 5)
click on the bookmark link below, then you can quickly go to the search conditions
select age, classification, lineage, category, search field as conditions to conduct a more advanced search
click search icon button, and system will show the result
clicking into any of the search results

For example, if we only want to search within the Prajnaparamita sutra of the Derge version of the Kangyu:

click on the Menu icon
click on the ‘Search’ option
enter into the search field ‘Prajnaparamita’ in the Chinese or Tibetan language
click on the bookmark link below, choose category
select on the Derge Kangyur
click search button
now you can read the text by clicking into any of the search results