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Project news
- May 2015: The National Mission for Manuscripts, Delhi, is planning to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with Iran Culture House, New Delhi, for the digitization of Sanskrit and Hindi texts in the Woolner Collection. According to its Director, Professor Prafulla Mishra, the digitized manuscripts will be made available online so that research scholars can access them easily. See http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-to-digitize-scripts/articleshow/34844112.cms . Also see press clippings.
- August 2013: Dr. Young-Gil Park, Director of Manuscript Research and External Linkage of Geumgang Center For Buddhist Studies, has recently published a monograph in Korean, entitled Hathayogayi Chullagkwa Suhaengron = Theory and Praxis of Haṭhayoga Based on the Haṭhayogapradīpikā and the Jyotsnā, in Mun Chongsir Series no. 6 (Seoul: CIR, 2013). Dr. Park has used information from five mss. of the Haṭhayogapradipīkā in the PUL collection, and eleven further yoga and yoga-related PUL MSS.
- September 2011: publication of A Handlist of Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Punjab University Library: Vol. 1 [Veda, Vedalakshana, Upanishad, Shrauta, Grhya, Dharma] by Gi-pyo Choi, Sung-doo Ahn, Jae-kwan Shim, Do-su Paek, and Young-gil Park (Geumgang University). Further details given under Finding Aids above.
- December 2010: Public launch of the project database, http://www.istb.univie.ac.at/swc, at the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies.
- January 2010: Dr Himal Trikha and Mr Christian Ferstl, project members from Vienna, travelled to Geumgang University to demonstrate the newly-developed manuscript software for cataloguing the Woolner Collection manuscripts.
Read full report. - December 2009: A project delegation consisting of Prof. Shim and Prof. Park from Geumgang University visit the University of Vienna to discuss manuscript cataloguing procedures, workflow, and related matters.
- December 2009: Agreement of Cooperation signed between Geumgang University and the University of Vienna.
- August-September 2008: Dr Himal Trikha visited PUL, Lahore. He introduced a pilot version of the database to the PUL colleagues and discussed cataloguing procedure with them.
- January 2008: Joint visit to Lahore of delegations from Geumgang and Vienna universities, and signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between Geumgang University and the University of the Punjab.
Last update: 14:25 23/12 2010
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