Transcriptions and translations of the Nāmasaṅgīti | GitHub
This repository contains a translation of the Nāmasaṅgīti by Ryan Conlon and Stefan Mang, accompanied by some other related materials. We have been preparing this translation in the hope of making it available on the Lotsawa House website. Our work is still very much in draft form; but even after its completion/publication, we intend maintain this repository (1) for the sake of version control (i.e., tracking changes); (2) to store collations, transcriptions, and analysis of relevant textual materials; and (3) to have a stable and publicly accessible location to share information and receive feedback.
We are aware of at least six previously published complete translation of the Nāmasaṅgīti into English, as well as one partial translation. These translations are already fine achievements in their own right; nevertheless, we hope our present effort can be seen as offering two modest but unique features:
Our translation has been composed in blank verse. This, we hope, should facilitate its recitation aloud, and provide some pleasure to those who enjoy metrical English verse.
We have managed to carry out a certain amount of textual research in producing the present translation. Specifically, we have systematically compared two Tibetan translations of the text, and we have read the Sanskrit text along with the entirety of Vilāsavajra's commentary in Sanskrit (both the published and unpublished portions).
Orientalistický Expres – Asociace českých orientalistů
Orientalistický Expres, z. s. je sdružením českých současných i bývalých studentů a dalších členů akademické obce, jejichž badatelský zájem se soustředí či soustředil na některý z regionů Orientu v nejširším možném významu tohoto slova.
Harvard University. Includes the Petzold scrolls collection, Chirimen hanga, Flickr collection, and Manchukuo collections of postcards and newspapers. The Petzold scrolls collection is a collection of the Harvard-Yenching Library that includes 424 scrolls (primarily paintings, woodblock prints, calligraphy, and rubbings from Japan, but also some materials from China and Tibet) acquired from German-born scholar of Buddhism, Bruno Petzold (1873-1949) in 1951.
Searchable database of Sanskrit electronic texts (kavya and subhashita).
This searchable collection of Sanskrit electronic texts is a part of the Pandanus project. At present it contains 27 Kavya and Subhashita works (more than 4MB of data), all transcribed and proofread by students of the Seminar of Indian Studies (Institute of South and Central Asia, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague), the work is still in progress.
Pandanus Database of Sanskrit, Prakrit, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam, English and Latin Plant names.
This database of Indian plant names is a part of the Pandanus Project (Seminar of Indian Studies, Institute of South and Central Asia, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic). At the present moment, it covers almost 400 species with more than 4000 plant names in 8 languages.
The following display options can be set: the indexes to be browsed, the type of the Indian diacritics encoding, the type of alphabetical sorting as well as the number of plant names per page. With the ASCII encoding, you need no special fonts installed. The UTF-8 encoding may require the Arial Unicode MS font to be displayed properly on your computer. To return to default settings, click here.
By clicking any plant name listed on this screen, you can display further details, including the plant's description and its names in the other languages (if any). Detailed description can be found under the Latin plant names.
The development of this database of Indian plant names was made possible by the generous funding of the Grant Agency of Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
The American Center for Mongolian Studies (ACMS) is a non-profit educational organization that supports the development of Mongolian Studies and academic exchanges with Inner Asia.
The Southeast Asia Digital Library (SEADL) exists to provide educators, students, scholars and members of the general public with a wide variety of materials published or otherwise produced in Southeast Asia. Drawn largely from the collections of universities and scholars in this region, SEADL contains digital facsimiles of books and manuscripts, as well as multimedia materials and searchable indexes of additional Southeast Asian resources. Nations represented in the collection include Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Neliti is a research repository that helps researchers and decision makers in Indonesia find research, data and evidence. They index journal articles, books, research reports, policy papers, conference papers and datasets from universities, government bodies, corporate publishers, and think tanks.
Digital Humanities Japan is an international and interdisciplinary community of scholars and professionals interested in working with digital methods, tools, and resources for Japanese Studies. As a collective, we aim to foster collaboration between those with similar interests by promoting scholarly dialogue, holding workshops to develop technical skills and project ideas, and creating a central platform for the sharing of resources related to digital methods.
Seoul administrative divisions in ESRI Shapefile, GeoJSON and TopoJSON formats | GitHub
Seoul administrative divisions in ESRI Shapefile, GeoJSON and TopoJSON formats. - GitHub - southkorea/seoul-maps: Seoul administrative divisions in ESRI Shapefile, GeoJSON and TopoJSON formats.
Archives | Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre
Named the Hiteshranjan Sanyal Memorial Collection after the social and cultural historian who was a member of the CSSSC faculty from 1973 till his untimely death in 1988, the institution’s archive began in 1993 with the project of microfilming collections of 19th and early 20th century Bengali periodicals which were languishing in different library holdings. The principal microfilm collection of periodicals in the archive comes from the Bangiya Sahitya Parishat Library in Kolkata which is the largest repository of 19th century Bangla periodical in the world. The visual archive was launched in 1996, with the intention of documenting, cataloguing and collating the pictorial, print and photographic imagery of the late 19th and 20th centuries that lay with individual collectors, with the families of artists and photographers, with printing firms, or within small institutions and private trusts. Since its formation, the scope of this visual archive has extended over the different fields of popular paintings and prints; modern art; studio, family, salon, commercial and institutional photography; advertisements, commercial art, book covers, illustrations, posters and hoardings. At present the archive has a collection of around 30,000 visual images which have been digitized and a database of this material is on the verge of completion so that researchers and scholars can access them easily.
The process of digitization both of microfilms and images began in 2003. The entire collection of microfilm rolls of Assamese, Bengali and English language periodicals and books have been transferred to electronic format. During the beginning of 2008, the archive received grants from the Endangered Archive Programme (EAP) of the British Library and the Ford Foundation to digitize the entire collection of two rare and invaluable newspapers The Amrita Bazar Patrika (1870-1949) and the Jugantar (1937-1980). The scanned version of the Amrita Bazar Patrika has been completed successfully and has already been uploaded to the CSSSC and the British Library servers for free access to researchers and scholars all over the world. The digital version of the Jugantar has also been completed and it is in the process of being uploaded to the institution’s server soon. Digitization of rare books from remote area libraries under the EAP has also been completed and about 3200 books and periodical titles have been completed successfully. The archive over the years has received generous grants and support from various funding bodies like the Japan Foundation, ENRECA of DANIDA, SEPHIS and the Ford Foundation for documentation, dissemination and digitization of the existing collections.
While all original material donated to the archives – such as the photographic albums and papers of Sevati Mitra and Barun De or the temple photographs of Hitesranjan Sanyal – are housed in the strong-rooms at JBMRC, the digital collection is located in both the archives room in the main campus at Patuli and on the top floor of the JBMRC. All public use of the archives is at Jadunath Bhavan.
Archive | Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences is a premier research institute in Eastern India, the major areas of research in the Centre is addressing the social, cultural and economic problems of South Asia, the institute has a library and an archive of documents related to South Asia and the archive primarily focused on documentation of non-conventional historical documents relating to modern Bengal.
The digital archives of the Urban History Documentation Archives of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences available for open access: Most of the printed documents archived by the CSSSC are available online for unrestricted access in collaboration with University of Heidelberg, The Endangered Archives Programme of the British Library and the Center for Research Libraries. The process of uploading of rest of the content is moving ahead and they will be available either on CrossAsia or on Endangered Archives Programme server soon.
Early Bengali Periodicals on CrossAsia Digital Collection of the University of Heidelberg.
Early Assamese Periodicals on CrossAsia Digital Collection of the University of Heidelberg.
Early Bengali books on CrossAsia Digital Collection of the University of Heidelberg.
English language books from British India.
Manuscripts, official records, books and journals in Eastern Indian languages digitised from public libraries in remote areas in West Bengal and available from the server of the Endangered Archives Programme: Go to the archives.
Bengali books digitised from public libraries in remote areas in West Bengal and available from the server of the Endangered Archives Programme: Go to the archives.
Online archive of Amrita Bazar Patrika (1870 to 1949) on Endangered Archives programme server: Go to the archives.
The Project EAP341 has been nominated for World Summit for Information Society Award 2015
Textual Documents in Microfilm
Visual Archive
History of Advertisement in Bengal
Private Papers and Special Collections
Documentation and Dissemination
Exhibition of Visual Materials
Photo Gallery 1
Founded in 1994 by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, Nitartha International uses modern technologies, pedagogies, and museum practices to preserve the timeless wisdom of Asia. Our specialty is in the teachings of the Nyingma and Kagyu schools of Tibet. Our vision and sincere mission since 1994 has been to preserve these texts, teachings, and cultural works, and make them available to as wide an audience as possible so that countless people may benefit from their wisdom.
Nitartha International is the umbrella organization for a variety of activities under the Nitartha name.
- Nitartha software development provides Tibetan language software. Our store is available here as well.
- Nitartha Dictionary Tools provides an online Tibetan-English translation dictionary.
- Nitartha Institute provides advanced Buddhist studies curriculum in English and other languages.
-Nitartha Translation Network makes available Tibetan texts in translation into English and other languages.
-Nitartha international publications provides both Tibetan-language publications for use in modern-day shedras, and advanced translations for the modern minds in other countries.
- Nitartha Digital Library is an extensive collection of Tibetan-language texts and provides digital publications and search of the Nitartha collection.
Welcome to Timeless Treasuries, a free public repository of Tibetan Buddhist literature. Tsadra Foundation invites you to explore and download e-books generously provided by prominent monastery-based publishers of the Tibetan Buddhist traditions.
Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism is the first comprehensive academic reference work devoted to the plurality of Buddhist traditions across Asia, offering readers a balanced and detailed treatment of this complex phenomenon in six thematically arranged volumes: literature and languages (I, publ. 2015), lives (II, publ. 2019), thought (III, forthcoming 2022), history (IV, forthcoming 2023), life and practice (V, forthcoming 2025), index and remaining issues (VI, forthcoming 2026).
Each volume contains substantial original essays by many of the world’s foremost scholars, essays which not only cover basic information and well-known issues but which also venture into areas as yet untouched by modern scholarship. An essential tool for anyone interested in Buddhism.
An online resource will provide easy access to the encyclopedia’s ever-growing corpus of information.
The online edition of volume 2 (Lives, publ. 2019) will be added in (mid-)2021, with further volumes following after their original publication in print.
Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism is under the general editorial control of Jonathan Silk (Leiden University, editor-in-chief), Richard Bowring (University of Cambridge) and Vincent Eltschinger (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris). In addition, each volume has a dedicated board of specialist editors.
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