Search All Help:

The "search all" option searches for words or a phrase in any field of the catalog records. You may enter English, Extended Wylie Tibetan transliteration, or Unicode Tibetan into the search box. To search for an exact phrase, place the phrase in double quotes. Use the asterisk (*) to search for part of a word or variation. The question mark (?) is used to search for variations of a single character.

Examples:

• "rdzogs chen"
• སངས་རྒྱས་
• ཞག*
• pad+m*
• projection or forecast

Search Agent Help:

The "search agent" option searches for names or parts of a name in the agent fields of the catalog record, such as authors, translators, editors, revisers, and revealers. You may enter English, Extended Wylie Tibetan transliteration, or Unicode Tibetan into the search box. To search for an exact phrase, place the phrase in double quotes. Use the asterisk (*) to search for part of a word or variation. The question mark (?) is used to search for variations of a single character.

Examples:

• "bi ma la"
• སྙགས་
• "བཻ་རོ་"

Search Title Help:

The "search title" option searches for a word or phrase within any of the text titles in the catalogs. You may enter English, Extended Wylie Tibetan transliteration, or Unicode Tibetan into the search box. To search for an exact phrase, place the phrase in double quotes. Use the asterisk (*) to search for part of a word or variation. The question mark (?) is used to search for variations of a single character.

Examples:

• "nam mkha'"
• ཉི་ཟླ་
• "ཐིག་ལེ་"

Search Id Help:

The "ID title" option searches for a particular text based on its ID. The ID should be the edition sigla followed by the text number separated by a period. The text sigla can be either capitalized or not and the text number may or may not have leading zeros.

Examples:

• Tb.5
• dg.0043
• Tk.93