Všeobecné zrcadlo digitální Asie

Indian Community Cookbook Project is an archive of community recipes passed down through generations in India.

Interdisciplinary research platform on Digital Humanities at Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur (IIT). The digital revolution of the 20th and 21st centuries has created new knowledge and spaces for humankind to evolve culturally with the construction of techniques and technologies. As a corollary, a new field of organised research emerged at the beginning of the 2000s examining the use and application of digital technologies in humanities, the liberal arts, social science scholarship, and beyond. Popularly nested under an umbrella term “Digital Humanities”, this area of scholarship takes a critical stance to examine the role, use, application, and impact of digital tools in our everyday life, our societies, economies, cultures, and governments. However, while the use of computational tools in social science and humanities work is not very new, the availability of a large body of cultural artefacts after the digital turn, as well as emergence of new kinds of digital objects and embodiments, has opened up several possibilities for social science and humanities research, practice and pedagogy using computational approaches. Very soon, the question of whether something is, or is not, ‘digital’ will be increasingly secondary as many forms of culture become mediated, produced, accessed, distributed or consumed through digital devices and technologies. In other words, the field of Digital Humanities is expected to grow on principles of interdisciplinary rather than multidisciplinary principles. Our research focus and pedagogy in this IDRP group emphasize on many of the emerging epistemological questions on knowledge production about generating digital data from material objects, and on rethinking of existing processes of knowledge production. Our PhD Program in Digital Humanities IIT Jodhpur is one of the pioneering institutes in the country currently to offer an interdisciplinary doctoral degree in Digital Humanities. The Inter Disciplinary Research Platform at IIT Jodhpur facilitates this doctoral degree programme.This doctoral programme offers unique opportunities to redraw conventional disciplinary boundaries among the humanities, the social sciences, the arts, technology and engineering, and the natural sciences. Doctoral students opting for this program are expected to contribute towards integrating disciplinary approaches of the humanities, liberal arts, social sciences, and computer technologies, with cross-disciplinary theorising and research that can be avant-garde to the field of Digital Humanities. Examples of research emphases may include (but are not limited to): Digital Cultures/ Cultural Practices – Past and Present; Digital Societies; Digital Heritage (Preservation, Conservation, Restoration, Recreation); Thematic Computation Reading of Novels; Multimodal Data Analytics; Digital Epistemologies and Methods. Doctoral research in Digital Humanities shall be premised on project-oriented knowledge production, the practical application of methods, and shall involve interdisciplinary collaboration workflows. In addition to the regular PhD stipend, an additional financial assistance for research may be facilitated on a competitive basis.

This Research Network, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK, brings together scholars and practitioners interested in the potential of digital technologies in scholarship, archives and heritage. The aim of the network is to explore the particular potential and challenges presented by devising research projects using digital datasources, digitisation and geospatial methodologies

This blog is an attempt at documenting slam poetry in India. Slam poetry is a new and dynamic art form that brings words to life by blending together writing and performance. In India, the movement is at the brink of redefining poetry as we know it. However, we believe it still needs its deserved recognition. We feel like this is the perfect opportunity to track its journey and bring it together for people to see, and that is exactly what we’re here to do! We thought the best way to bring it to you was through the eyes of the poets themselves. At the same time, this website attempts to put together information about some of the events and organisations that are promoting slam poetry in the country. Along with this, we have a few performances by the featured poets to give you a taste of what the slam poetry scene is all about.

Most of the entries have been taken from the "Dictionary of Pali Names" by G P Malalasekera (1899-1973), which is available as printed version from "The Pali Text Society, London".

Online version of 'The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary' from the Digital Dictionaries of South Asia.

Includes various indexes, dictionaries, literature, and many more other resources. DDB

The Buddhist Hub provides a plethora of resources incl. literature, dictionaries, archive of audio and vidual resources and many many more.

This site provides tools for Sanskrit processing: dictionary search, morphology generation and analysis, segmentation, tagging and parsing. The first service is dictionary access. The dictionary is a hypertext structure giving access to the Sanskrit lexicon, given with grammatical information. There are currently two versions of the dictionary. The first one is the original Heritage Sanskrit-French dictionary, that serves as morphology generator, and is thus fully equipped with grammatical tools. Furthermore it offers a rich encyclopedic contents about Indian culture. You may also download a printable pdf version of this dictionary, as explained below. A fully hypertext version in the Goldendict format is also available. The second lexicon is a digital version of the Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English dictionary, a much more complete lexicon for the Sanskrit language. It is issued from Thomas Malten's digitalization of the Monier-Williams at Köln University, turned into an XML databank by Jim Funderburk, and finally adapted to the HTML Heritage look and feel by Pawan Goyal. The Sanskrit Heritage dictionary is thus mirrored in the Monier-Williams, which allows compatibility of the grammatical tools. This site offers a number of linguistic services for the Sanskrit language, such as a Sanskrit Reader that parses Sanskrit text under various formats into Sanskrit banks of tagged hypertext. Various phonological and morphological tools are also provided.

Learnsanskrit - An English-Sanskrit dictionary: This is an online hypertext dictionary for Sanskrit-English and English-Sanskrit. The online hypertext Sanskrit dictionary is meant for learning Sanskrit. There are also many fables in Sanskrit for beginners: Aesop, Panchatantra, Hitopadesha, Jataka fables.

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) promotes and supports digital research and teaching across all arts and humanities disciplines, acting as a community-based advisory force, and supporting excellence in research, publication, collaboration and training.

Mongolia Journals Online is supported by INASP since launched in 2011. It has been established in association with the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, and aims to promote Knowledge dissemination in all disciplines by providing access to tables of contents (TOCs), abstracts and full text on the Internet. Publications are scholarly in content, peer reviewed, and contain original research.

Datasets, resources, and other repositories concerning the natural language processing of Tibetan.

Compiled by Christian Steinert.

Early Chinese Music Resources are compiled by David Badagnani. It is a collection of resources relating to Chinese music through the Qing, with links to scores, audio and video recordings, and textual sources.

For the study of non-Buddhist intellectual history, including detailed information on individual ideographs.

MADSpace (Mapping Advertising Space) was born in 2016 as a digital companion to a PhD dissertation devoted to a spatial history of advertising in modern China. It was designed to store, organize and connect primary sources or raw data (archives, printed materials, maps, photos), analytical materials or cooked data (graphs, maps, trees, tables, timelines), multimedia narratives (dissertation, published papers, unpublished essays), bibliographical references and other resources. It also includes a relational database of some 2,000 historical actors involved in the advertising industry (companies, branded products). Since then, it has expanded beyond its initial purpose to include over 950 archival documents, 1,500 printed materials, 1,000 images, and more than 700 “cooked data” to date, all related to various interconnected research interests that branch out of the history of advertising, such as market expertise, consumer culture, Americanization, the modern press and public opinion in China. It is regularly updated and enriched.

The Documentation of Mongolian Monasteries (Монголын Сүм Хийдийн Түүхэн Товчоо) is an online database featuring more than a thousand historical and extant Buddhist sites in the Mongolian People’s Republic. In addition to providing comprehensive geospatial data and extensive notes on the Buddhist sites, the database is also an invaluable trove for oral histories as well as many other indispensable resources on Mongolian Buddhism.

A collective venture of Czech and Slovak authors, the present title is a comprehensive biographical dictionary comprising some 450 biograms and summaries about individual scholars, researchers and educationists, as well as professional and non-professional specialists in the Orient, Africa and Latin America, characterizing their insights and discoveries, and enumerating their major scholarly achievements, results of years of academic endeavours, pedagogical work, artistic creativity, cultural and popularizing activities calculated to perpetuate the glorious heritage of countries of their interest, to project their true-to-life picture before the home public, to promote mutual regard and understanding. Added are bibliographic lists giving a representative selection of scholarly monographs, textbooks, teaching aids, encyclopaedic and lexicographic tools, editions of texts, catalogues, important translations, as well as significant "minor studies", research papers, articles, analyses, essays, travel notes and critiques published in journals and miscellanies both at home and abroad. The dictionary does not make any claim to exhaustiveness, and, in some cases, the editors, bowing to the wishes of some scholars, even agreed to exclude their summaries, no matter how painful such omissions may have proved to be. Wherever possible, priority was given to autobiograms penned by the personalities concerned, who were deemed best qualified to assess their own life's work and achievements. Utmost restraint was exercised in editing such entries (signed by the initial A) in order to preserve their authors' way of self-reflection. The bio-bibliographical part is prefaced by a comprehensive introductory study, tracing the chequered history of Asian, African and Ibero-American studies in the Czech lands from the age of National Renaissance through the totalitarian periods up to the present, assessing the contribution to the knowledge of Asia, Africa, and Latin America made by Czech and Slovak missionaries, travellers, writers, creative artists, diplomats, politologists, economists and other students of the Orient, listing the various topics and subjects taught and researched in the institutions of higher learning, museums and art galleries, and presenting a critical overview of the development of individual disciplines, branches and subjects of study. The main body of the dictionary is supplemented by numerous appendices listing various research centres, series of publications, journals and library collections in the Czech and Slovak Republics. The book is being published to mark the 650th anniversary of Charles University, alma mater of most Czech and Slovak Orientalists, Africanists and Americanists, and is designed to serve as a modest tribute to the pioneers, who broke ground for the present and future generations, as well as a reliable guide to the lives and works of their pupils, disciples and followers.

New feature on the 'Medical History of British India' provides an entry into the history of disease and its prevention in 19th and 20th-century British India, including veterinary medicine and animal husbandry. You can browse and search nearly 426 reports which are held at the National Library of Scotland.

TibShelf is an open platform to access a growing cache of translated Tibetan texts across a vast array of time periods and genres. Through an inclusive and collaborative approach, we strive to save otherwise forgotten translations and support the preservation of Tibetan History, Culture and Wisdom.

Collections of a Tibetophone music (and recorded poetry) assembled by Mireille Helffer and her colleagues, recorded since 1969 across Tibet, Ladakh, India, and Nepal. Religious, popular, and folk music plus photos are all divided into five corpuses. CNRSMH_Helffer - CREM-CNRS fonds are maintained by Research Centre of Ethnomusicology (CREM), University of Paris 10 (CNRS) and the Musee de l'Homme.

Digital repository hosted by the University of Virginia dedicated to all Tibetan materials covering broader Tibetan cultural sphere. Includes knowledge maps, e-texts, audiovisual materials (photographs, recordings, videos), place names, glossary of terminology, dictionary, and subjects. All searchable.

Humanity's repository of the Buddhist wisdom: the full text of 85 volumes of Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō (大正新脩大藏經), is now available on-line. Human intelligence has come to express itself through a variety of modes in the course of its development of its inner reality through mutual interaction. With the advent of the digital age, we are presented with a dazzling array of new ways to assimilate, analyze, and transmit this knowledge. This web service is being administered as one reflection of these new possibilities of expression, with the intent of broadly opening up to the world the fruits of Buddhist wisdom as expressed in the Taishō shinshū daizōkyō, a corpus of Buddhist text that has played a central role in the conveyance of 2500 years of Asian religious and philosophical culture down to the present. While we are making available the Buddhist canonical texts which are originally the objects of religious veneration and belief, it is not our purpose to advocate the position of a certain sectarian doctrine or religious system. Rather, we hope to provide a means of access to the Buddhist scriptures and related academic materials of the highest quality, based on the most accurate historical research available. It is our intention to not merely provide new access to this body of knowledge in a passive manner--rather, we hope to provide a ground for the creation of new wisdom. This web service, at the most basic level, makes available in digital format the text database of the Daizōkyō. This corpus, over time, will be linked with and embedded in a wide range of lexicons, notes, other language versions, and academic research articles, based on the best philological, historical, and text-critical research available. We offer this developing package of information starting from the basic assumption that the texts in the database, as well as all appended secondary research materials will adhere to the highest standards of accuracy and criticality, and will be developed from a wide range of perspectives. All available information will be treated objectively as possible, while at the same time being presented within a readily understandable and unified structure. It is our hope that as a result of our efforts, the fragments of Buddhist wisdom which have come to be seen in diversified and narrowly specialized ways as the result of the process of history and the advancement of academic method, can in this great age of globalization be once again consolidated, and be reproduced in a format that will be beneficial to a wide range of potential users. This great compilation of the corpus of Buddhist scriptures, which has been carried on the backs of countless persons over the passage through the vicissitudes of history, now continues in its life in a new form, turning into the future with unlimited new possibilities. If this site can serve its purpose in this effort, it will be to the greatest delight of all of us who have been involved in its development.

The People’s Map of Global China tracks China’s complex and rapidly changing international activities by engaging an equally global civil society. Using an interactive, open access, and online ‘map’ format, we collaborate with nongovernmental organisations, journalists, trade unions, academics, and the public at large to provide updated and updatable information on various dimensions of Global China in their localities. The Map consists of profiles of countries and projects, sortable by project parameters, Chinese companies and banks involved, and their social, political, and environmental impacts. This bottom-up, collaborative initiative seeks to provide a platform for the articulation of local voices often marginalised by political and business elites. It is our hope that the information collected by this networked global civil society will be a useful resource for policymaking, research, and international advocacy.

The Interuniversity Research Group on Tibet and the Himalayas (Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire sur le Tibet et l’Himalaya, GRITH), funded by the FRQ-SC, brings together all of the academics in Québec province carrying out research about the greater Himalayan region. The aim of this group is to assemble their multidisciplinary knowledge and capacities, strengthen the synergy between all researchers, regardless of their level of advancement in career, and stimulate collaborations between all members - and beyond, with national and international partners. At present, the group comprises six professors based in five Québec universities, their twenty-or-so graduate students and several associate members, who all fluently speak or or more Asian languages. All are deeply involved, both intellectually and personally, in their fieldwork locations in High Asia and among the diasporic communities of their elective region in Canada and Europe. The team’s strengths rely on the multidisciplinary convergence of the experience and competence of the members across diverse regions of the Himalayas. Bringing in dialogue religious studies, anthropology, philology and history, the members wish to rethink the concept of power in this region along two main focuses : the instrumentalization of history and the analysis of ritual as power technology. The aim is to better document the political, religious and cultural upheavals of these diverse communities, combining historical depth with geographic breadth. Hopefully, this will allow for a more dynamic contribution of Québec-based Tibetologists and Himalayanists to global academic and public debates about the predicament of High Asia.

In 2018, the East Asian Library of the University of Pittsburgh Library System (ULS) proposed the Contemporary Chinese Village Gazetteer Data (CCVG Data) project, with the goal of creating an open dataset consisting of data selected from the ULS collection of Chinese village gazetteers. Village gazetteers record statistical data on individual villages, covering the years from 1949 to the present showing the history and development of Chinese villages (the village is the most basic administrative unit in China). The CCVG Data project, the first of its kind, offers scholars a dataset based on the ULS East Asian Library’s growing collection of Chinese village gazetteers, which currently numbers over 2,700. Since the project aims to represent as much of China as possible, gazetteers were chosen for inclusion based on the goal of representing each of China’s provinces, if possible. Within each province, gazetteers are chosen for inclusion at random. It should be noted that the availability of village gazetteers varies by province. To create the CCVG dataset, gazetteers were selected from the collection, demographic and economic data was collected from these volumes, and this data was extracted using a data entry platform designed by the ULS. The resulting dataset is published on this website for free download by scholars around the world. The current dataset covers 1,200 villages and was uploaded in May 2021. The project will continue extracting data from more gazetteers as time and resources allow with the goal of eventually reaching 2,500–3,000 village gazetteers. The dataset containing information on 1,200 villages is available for download in .csv format. An interactive map with basic administrative information on each collected village is also included in the website. A database with tools of filtering, cross-searching, and visualizations is currently under design.

École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) provides here a free access to its publicly available photo collections from the 18th/19th centuries covering various parts of Asia.

A website dedicated to the study of 5th to 18th century Buddhist Art of the Himalayas (mostly sculpture).

This is a cumulative index of Tibetan person and place names. I first began entering it into the computer in 1994, initially on the basis of several long boxes of index cards, which had been started in the early '80's. At the time, as a intermediate-level learner of Classical Tibetan, I was frustrated at the difficulty of even recognizing that proper names are proper names.* This has been about thirty-seven years in the making, and is still being made. Compiled by Dan Martin between the years 1983 and 2018