The American Institute of Buddhist Studies was founded in 1972 — at the request of H.H. the Dalai Lama and the late Ven. Geshe Ngawang Wangyal — with the ambitious mandate to translate and publish the originally Indian Buddhist artistic, scientific, and religious works collected in the Tibetan Tengyur (bstan 'gyur).

Good resource for looking into the Tibetan Canon

A guide from Columbia University useful for those beginning Tibetan studies using online resources--most links are accessible for anyone, some specific sources should be accessed through UIUC library system.