This paper focuses on the project called DSBC on the formation of the Sanskrit Buddhist Canon by exploring extant Sanskrit Buddhist printed texts in the 20th century. Prof. Lewis R. Lancaster, former President of the University of the West and coordinator of the project, initiated the cooperation with Nagarjuna Institute in Nepal in digitizing the Sanskrit Buddhist Canon since 2003.

The Sanskrit Canon can be easily made accessible to all. We are accelerating our work by broadening our support and applying the latest computer technologies. Currently we have placed 77 Sutras (Buddha vacana, the Word of the Buddha), 108 Stotras (Hymns), 6 Tantras (Vajrayana texts), and 107 Shastras (commentaries) texts online. Now, for the first time in history, the basic texts of Indian Buddhism are freely accessible and downloadable via the internet: http://www.uwest.edu/sanskritcanon/.

The availability of all the Sanskrit Buddhist texts online will be an important milestone in Buddhist scholarships, and will make be useful to educators and non-specialists. However much effort and support will be needed to meet this distant goal. Future goals of DSBC Project are as follows:

• The categorization of Digital Sanskrit Canon
• Creation of comprehensive bibliography of Sanskrit Buddhist texts
• Creation of comprehensive catalog of Sanskrit Buddhist texts
• Publication of Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon-DSBC in DVDs
• Publication of Diplomatic edition of unpublished Sanskrit texts from Manuscripts
• Publication of Sanskrit Buddhist Tripitaka Series (SBTS) in the near future