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The DKHP is a project for the purpose of collecting, preserving, archiving, and re-publishing the texts of the Drukpa Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. The idea for the project came from Tsoknyi Rinpoche III, an important tulku of the Kham branch of the Drukpa Kagyu. The project itself was started, funded, and executed by Lotsawa Tony Duff, a well-known translator. The office in Kathmandu, Nepal, was opened in January 1993. Approximately 2000 titles were input and corrected to the year 2000. At that point, the work was printed on paper. In 2002, 500 sets of 101 volumes per set were printed in India and distributed to Tibetan monasteries in Tibet, mainly, and India and Nepal.

In tandem with the Tibetan Computer Company the project developed the methodology and software necessary for doing this kind of work and has provided it to nearly all of the major Tibetan Buddhist text preservation projects which are spread throughout India, Nepal, Bhutan, and the rest of the world. Since the publication on paper, Lotsawa Tony has been preparing special software as a vehicle for electronic editions of the texts. The software was completed in 2005 and the initial offerings of electronic editions have been made.