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The project makes a major, but largely inaccessible and little-studied collection of Sanskrit manuscripts (mss.), the A.C. Woolner Collection of the Punjab University Library (PUL), Lahore, Pakistan, accessible again to the scholarly world and conducts focussed research on the Collection in a cooperative project involving PUL, Geumgang University (GGU), Nonsan, Korea, and the University of Vienna (Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies [ISTB]).
The basic task of the gradual digitization and digital cataloguing of the Sanskrit mss. falls to PUL and GGU, and is done in scholarly and technical collaboration and coordination with ISTB, where the main research component of the project is located. It consists of three major parts:
A Study of the Manuscripts of the Woolner Collection, Lahore
The basic task of the gradual digitization and digital cataloguing of the Sanskrit mss. falls to PUL and GGU, and is done in scholarly and technical collaboration and coordination with ISTB, where the main research component of the project is located. It consists of three major parts:
- the analysis and evaluation of the philosophical manuscripts of the Collection (1,266 mss.), resulting in the establishment of a descriptive digital catalogue following international standards and highlighting the importance of the individual mss., and a connected sophisticated, prosopographically oriented data base presenting all information that can be extracted from the initial passages and colophons of the mss.;
- a study of the history of the Collection in the wider context of the flourishing Sanskritic culture of pre-partition Lahore and the cultural–intellectual history of this city of celebrated multi-traditional learning, culture and intercultural exchange during the relevant period (ca. 1880-1947), with special emphasis on the history of its philosophical mss.;
- in-depth philological work on some selected mss., with an initial focus on a ms. of the Nāṭyaśāstra(NŚ), the foundational work on ancient Indian histrionics.
A Study of the Manuscripts of the Woolner Collection, Lahore
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