NEW TECHNOLOGY
  Since the inception of our work, there have been continued requests by Buddhists from more technically advanced countries that we make the collection available in electronic format. At the beginning it was decided not to do this simply because the only means for publishing the collection that were available at that time (word-processing files) were also very subject to corruption. We think that, once this work is done, it will not be possible to do it again, simply because the old scholars who would be needed to do the correction work will not be available again after this generation. Therefore, our plan in publishing this collection is that it will serve the world's needs for the foreseeable future, out as far as the next couple of thousand years! Accordingly, it is very important to us that anything we publish be correct to begin with and be published in a way that will not allow for the introduction of accidental error. We were not satisfied with any of the publishing electronic publishing possibilities that we had seen up to that point.

  As the mid-1990's went by and the world became increasingly oriented toward electronic publication, Mr. Duff felt that it would be good to have a means for securely publishing the entire collection in an electronic format. Simultaneously, Mr. Duff had started work on a new kind of Tibetan software for making Tibetan/English dictionaries available. Once the new software was sufficiently developed, it became clear that this software could, with a little modification, be used for the electronic publication of the texts of the DKHP and in a form that would not be easily corruptible. The new software is now complete and is called TibetD and TibetDoc. Information about the new software can be obtained at The Tibetan Computer Company.

  Just as DKHP has not only done its own work of preserving the texts of the Drukpa Kagyu Heritage Tradition but has also helped many other Tibetan text preservation projects to get underway, it is our intent not only to publish our own texts in the new format but to help all of the other projects to publish their works in that format, too. To date we have commitments from various projects for publishing texts of all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism in the new format. The total commitment is approximately 600 volumes at present. It is our plan that the new software will be made readily available in a "reader-only" version at a very low cost. With the reader-only version, anyone will be able to read, search, and otherwise use the combined efforts of all of these text preservation projects as simply as obtaining the electronic editions of the various texts. Certainly for our own DKHP work, we plan to distribute all of the texts in the collection on a CD-ROM which will be stamped and dated in such a way as the authenticity of the materials will be definitely ascertainable.

  We do NOT at this point intend to publish much of the material on the Internet. It is our feeling that the Internet is too public and too prone to abuse for the dissemination of this material, much of which is secret mantrayana anyway, and all of which needs to have an element of respect accorded to it. However, some common texts will be published such as The Jewel Ornament of Liberation, Moonbeams of Mahamudra, The Bodhisatvacaryavatara, etc., for ease of use of Buddhist practitioners in general. The texts are being made available through Padma Karpo Translation Committee.

CONCLUSION
  In conclusion, we would like to offer the observation that, where many Westerners seem to think that the Buddha's dharma is flourishing quite nicely, in fact, if you look very closely, it is in serious decline. The work of the DKHP is dedicated towards stemming this decline as much as possible and creating the conditions for the three-yana approach of Buddhism, as preserved so well by the Tibetans, to remain viable for as long as possible.