The Namgyal Audio-Visual Archive contains 27 years worth of recordings totaling more than three thousand hours of teachings.

In the past the archive has been fortunate enough to receive funding to transfer older tape formats to the new digital formats, and to construct a proper humidity- and temperature-controlled media storage room. These measures have ensured the life and stability of the existing tape media for the time being, but we must now make provisions for the future. Currently the archive exists as a single copy of media residing in the archive room at Namgyal Monastery. …