This past August, Leow Chai Yee, my main collaborator on the Photo Dharma website, visited India and while she was there photographed some of the main sites, including a few I had asked for specifically. I have spend the last few weeks editing these photographs and we now have five new albums for the Photo Dharma website.
These include three museums, at Bodhgaya, Sanchi and Sarnath; as well as new photographs of the Bharhut Room at the Indian Museum in Kolkata. When I was in Sanchi in 2016, I had accidentally missed the Stūpa no 2, which is some way away from the main site. Chai Yee was kind enough to get photos of that also.
This brings the collection to over 21,000 photographs, in 324 albums! I believe this is the largest dedicated collection of photographs of Buddhist Sites available on the internet now. They are all released with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (or higher), and are also uploaded to Wiki Media.
They are free to reuse, as many have been, for books, exhibitions, teachings in school and universities, and this helps fulfill my original plan of providing photographs that can be used to help propagate the Buddha’s teachings, without unnecessary restrictions.
