Dear Jim, Dear all,
Thank you so much for directing the list's attention to this slowly emerging project. Bill Pruitt and I have been working together with my indefatigable colleagues at Robarts Library at the University of Toronto as well as with the web designer Jeffrey Bermejo (who some of you may know as the creator of the Toronto IABS 2017 Congress website) to have a permanent platform installed there called the Myanmar Manuscript Digital Library (MMDL) which will be hosting, as the first collection that will find its home there, the U Po Thi Library files. I am so happy that the enormous contribution first and foremost Bill, but also the PTS and all the marvellous scholars involved have made towards Pali and Burmese Studies with the creation of this archive can soon be amplified by the online availability of the images. The infrastructure, which is now in place, is large enough to allow for many more collections to be added and Bill and I are hoping that there is lots of scope for the growth of a robust Burma-focused digital archive here. The main purpose of the agreement I signed with Robarts Library in my function as the digital archive's main curator is meant to guarantee long-term preservation, - a mission to which Robarts Library and the University of Toronto are strongly dedicated. While the raw frame for the digital archival building has been now created, some work still needs to be done till we can make the archive available online to you and to the larger public. Please bear with us as these last crucial steps are being taken. I will make sure that you all will know as soon as the website is ready to be launched.
Warmly,
Christoph
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Christoph Emmrich
Associate Professor, Buddhist Studies
Director, Centre for South Asian Studies
at the Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
Chair, Numata Program UofT/McMaster
University of Toronto
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About. Christoph Emmrich (PhD University of Heidelberg, 2004) engages with fields as diverse as Nepalese and Burmese Buddhism, Sanskrit, Pali, Newar, Burmese and Mon literature and Tamil Jainism.
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Sent: February 6, 2019 9:27 AM
To: palistudy@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [palistudy] FW: New Publication (U Pho Thi catalogue)
Forwarding this email just in from PTS. Mention is made of the collection in PDFs being prepared by staff at the Robarts Library, University of Toronto which will be made available on a website.
Jim
From: pts@... <pts@...>
Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 8:51 AM
To: PTS <pts@...>
Subject: New Publication
Dear Members of the PTS,
We are pleased to announce the publication of a new book:
The Catalogue of Manuscripts in the U Pho Thi Library, Thaton, Myanmar,
W. Pruitt, Y. Ousaka, S. Kasamatsu. Bristol: The Pali Text Society, 2019.
ISBN-10 0 86013 524 1
ISBN-13 978 086013 524 1
List price: £ 40.00
The Catalogue gives details of over 780 palm-leaf manuscripts and 5 parabaiks that will be made available as PDFs on a website being prepared by the staff of the Robarts Library, University of Toronto, Canada. In the meantime, scholars can request PDFs of individual texts by contacting the Pali Text Society. The texts cover a wide range of Pāli canonical texts, commentaries, and sub-commentaries. There are also many rare texts in Burmese, Burmese nissayas, and Mon nissayas. The project to photograph the manuscripts was sponsored by the Pali Text Society and financed by several generous grants from Japan.
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Bowerhill Industrial Estate
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