The Instute had conducted a three day seminar on Manuscriptology in Ahmedabad. It was attended by 230 professionals and students. This was first ever seminar at national level and created a great indepth interest in the subject.
IoJ JAINpedia Consultant, Mr Rajiv Anand presented a paper titled ‘The Role of community Heritage’ discussing the relevance of JAINpedia project to the community in the UK and world at large.
22Apr10
Treasures of the British Library
The John Ritblat Gallery has the subtitle ‘Treasures of the British Library’ will soon have a representation of Jain manuscripts on display in this Gallery in the Sacred Text section. The gallery contains a permanent display of some of the British Library’s greatest objects and artefacts, arranged by theme.
The V&A Museum will be hosting the long waited and ambitious JAINpedia display to be exhibited in the prestigious Nehru Gallery of Indian Art. This gallery houses some of the Museum’s highlights such as Tipoo’s Tiger and Ranjit Singhs Golden Throne. It is also home to a rare selection of Jain manuscripts which [...]
23Dec09
Progress on Jainpedia Project
Jaipedia project is progressing at fast pace and the main partner for the project, Kings College, University of London has already produced the fist pages of the proposed database to give a taste of what is to come.
Each section of every page is linked to a specific section of the database giving a much wider [...]
The Institute of Jainology has been promoting the awareness of Jain philosophy worldwide launched the ‘Jainpaedia’ project in India at the Yogi Hall, Dadar, Mumbai on Sunday 25th October.
The project’s main objective is to create a contextualised database of the important Jain manuscripts currently in various collections in the UK. This database will be digitised [...]
12Sep09
Jainpedia is recruiting
The Stg Pds 800K project, Jainpedia project is progressing as scheduled and first public exhibition of the work done so far will take place during 2010 at V & A Museum. The contractors for the project were appointed last year who have been doing the ground work. The Institute appointed two personnel of its own to support the contractors [...]
11Oct08
Digitisation & Contextualisation
Project to make the Manuscripts Accessible to All
(Manuscript Digitisation & Contextualisation Project)
The Catalogue of Jain Manuscript that has been launched is really a technical document useable mainly by the researching academicians. These catalogues are in fact very detailed indices of the individual manuscripts held in the collections they refer to. They include details of [...]
17Mar08
Heritage Lottery Grant
HERITAGE LOTTERY GRANT FOR ACCESS TO JAIN MANUSCRIPTS IN UK INSTITUTIONS
March 17th, 2008
London, UK: The Institute of Jainology today announced that it has received a Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant of £375,000 towards the creation of an ambitious on-line multimedia resource which will illustrate Jain manuscripts and artefacts held by major UK libraries and museums. [...]