J. Nepal Res. Centre XII & the NGMPP

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Among all the terrible news of V.S. 2058, it is however with a sense of

accomplishment that we can look back to more than30 years of the

Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project. The project, begun by the

late Prof.s Janert and Kolver in 1970, has been officially concluded this

spring.

http://www.uni-hamburg.de/Wiss/FB/10/IndienS/NGMPP/index.html

 

The project has virtually shaped a whole generation of German Sanskritists

(and Tibetologists) in providing a long and sustained experience of a

living Hindu and Buddhist culture that was, until some decades ago, almost

untrammeled by outside influences.

 

Those who have participated in the project have experienced the "Kathmandu

High" of an exhilarating nature and climate, and the warmth of the Nepalese

people, and they look back, with gratitude, to their stay in Nepal as some

of, if not as t h e best years of their lives.

 

At the occasion of the conclusion of microfilming -- the project continues

apace with more detailed cataloguing-- a sort of Festschrift dedicated to

the project has been brought out as Vol. XII of the JNRC -- this journal

being another outcome of the activities of the project and of its members.

 

The volume contains papers by many of the participants of the NGMPP and by

a few specially invited scholars.

 

Details below.

 

MW

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Journal of the Nepal Research Centre Vol. XII

Wiesbaden (F. Steiner Verlag) 2001; pp. 3, 319

 

CONTENTS:

 

A. Wezler: Preface

 

M. Aklujkar: Was a Full Recension of the Brhatkatha Available in Nepala in

the 19th century?

 

K. Bhattacharya: For a New Edition of the Mahayanasutralamkara

 

H. Brinkhaus: Santikara's Nagasudhana in the Svayambhupurana: A Medieval

Legend of a Rain Charm in the Nepal Valley

 

C. Cuppers: A Letter Written by the Fifth Dalai Lama to the King of Bhaktapur

 

M.S. G. Dyczkowski: The Inner Pilgrimage of the Tantras: The sacred

geography of the Kubjika Tantras with reference to the Bhairava and Kaula

Tantras

 

K.-F. Ehrhardt: Religious geography and Literary Traditions: The Found

ation of the Monastery Brag-dkar bsam-ling

 

E. Garzilli: A Sanskrit letter written by Sylvain Levi in 1923 to Hemaraja

Sarma along with Some Hitherto Unknown Biographical Notes (Cultural

Nationalism and Internationalism in the First half of the 20th Century:

Famous Indologists Write to the Raj Guru of Nepal - No.1)

 

R. Grunendahl: A Plea for an Integrated Approach towards Manuscript Cataloguing

 

B. Kolver and M.R. Pant: Two Recent Documents from Nepal

 

K.-D. Mathes: The High Mountain Valley of Nar (Manang) in the 17th Century

according to Two Tibetan Autobiographies

 

A. von Rospatt: A Historical Overview of the Renovations of the

Svayambhucaitya at Kathmandu

 

A. Wezler (in cooperation with D. Acharya, Kathmandu): Bhiksu Haribhadra's

Vibhaktikarika: An Unknown Grammatical Text Edited with A brief

Introduction (First Part)

 

M. Witzel: Medieval Veda Tradition as Reflected in Nepalese Manuscripts

 

 

 

 

 

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Michael Witzel

Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies, Harvard University

2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138, USA

 

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