The advancement of digital archiving technology in recently years have resulted in massive data being digitalized and stored in digital archives. Digital archives have become important source for people to access data. The role of digital archives, however, should not just for storing data. We will induce the concepts of Knowledge Management and Topic Maps to turn the role of digital archives into information providers, or even knowledge providers. The cultural and historical relics of Buddhism are very valuable resources. How to reserve those valuable resources via up-to-date information technology is very important. In this paper, we proposed a methodology and implemented a system for management of Buddhism knowledge. In order to improve the utilities of traditional digital archive, we designed a Buddhism digital archive with a Topic Map. We constructed the Topic Map from two Buddhism books. Record of Western Lands and The Life of Xuanzang. The digital archive was implemented by RDBMS. We also implemented a prototype system of knowledge management for such an archive. Further development for future work will be discussed in the last part of this paper.
