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Visit at ASA Archive
On Friday 8th of November, Resident Representative
Frederic Link together with Yogesh Budhathoki and Julia Meckl from the
research unit Documents on the History of Religion and Law of
pre-modern Nepal of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and
Humanities visited the Asa Saphukuthi (Asa Archives) in which the Centre
for the Study of Manuscript Culture of the University of Hamburg (CSMC) is currently carrying out tasks for
the conservation and digitization of manuscripts. Dr Bidur Bhattarai,
Coordinator of the project, accompanied them during the visit and
explained about methods and challenges of preservation, documentation
and storage of manuscripts. The archives contain over 7000 manuscripts
and documents in Newari, Nepali, Sanskrit and Maithili, covering a
plethora of genres and sources of different sects and traditions. Among
them is a considerable number of palm-leaf manuscripts, which are
preserved with techniques tailored for the unique material. In the
course of the project, manuscripts will be preserved, catalogued,
digitized and made accessible to the scholarly community and general
public. These manuscripts and artefacts provide important resources to
scholars in Nepal and abroad. The visitors were impressed seeing the
work in the archives and look forward to further exchange.
Participants in group photo f.l.t.r.: Dr Bidur Bhattarai (CSMC), Tej
Maya Maharjan (CSMC), Julia Meckl (SAI), Resident Representative
Frederic Link (SAI), Sharad Kasa (ASK), Kedar Ghimire (CSMC), Pradip
Rana Magar (CSMC)
16 Jan 2020
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