The Institute of Jainology, in partnership with King’s College London, has received funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to develop the digitisation and digital dessemination of the selected Jain Manuscript.
Prof Nalini Balbir has been appointed as the Editor in Chief of the project. She will work with several scholars of Jainism and manusriptology to select the manuscripts from the large collections held by the particpating Institutions and then proceed with creating the contextual database for each selected manuscript.
The database is expected to go on line to provide information in English, Hindi and Gujarati towards the later part of 2012.
During the lifetime of the project, exhibitions of the manuscripts will be held at the regional museums, places of worships and local libraries. also workshops on manuscriptology will be conducted during this period. If you are interested in becoming a part of this exciting project please email to info@jainology.org
The presentation which can be downloaded explains the various stages of the project, details of collections with each of the participating Institutions, what will the database comprise of and the key stages in execution of the project. This project was formally launched on 17th September. For more details click here.
Update on the project will continue to be made available from this web site.
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Well done in bringing the Jain Manuscripts to the mainstream. In today’s world of materialism, these bring another dimension of attaining fulfilment through understanding of self-being. As a fellow third generation Jain leaving India, I look forward to your submissions, as this will give my children and their generation an insight into the way of Jain philosophy and Jain way of living.
Congratulations!
very good effort . keep it up . don’t lose hope . all the jains across the world are proud of you .
It is very wel-come and nice step to reveal fundamental history and evolution of Jainism. In future, Jainism will truly show the path to survive among different natural or human initiated calamities. It is also very similar to Zen sect of China. Personally I am also eager to study old history of Jainism and even ready to learn prakrut, Pali etc. ancient languages. Once again many many congratulations to have such a nice initiative and also want to thanks supporters who supported this great task for mankind. Jay Jinendra.
its gr8…attempt n wud luk to contribute in al possible ways!
Great work ,Keep it up