You can also find some speculative remarks on (hypothetical) libraries in Buddhist Gandhara in my *Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara* (1999), by looking up "libraries (in Buddhist monasteries)" in the index.
Rich Salomon On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 2:00 AM Marco Franceschini via INDOLOGY < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Christian, > > thank you for collecting together all the information that you received > and for circulating them to all of us! > > Best wishes, > > Marco > — > > Marco Franceschini > ——————————— > Associate Professor > University of Bologna > Department of History and Cultures > [email protected] > https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/marco.franceschini3/en > http://unibo.academia.edu/MarcoFranceschini > www.associazioneitalianadistudisanscriti.org > — > > Il giorno 1 feb 2022, alle ore 08:41, Christian Ferstl via INDOLOGY < > [email protected]> ha scritto: > > Dear Friends and Colleagues, > > many many thanks to everyone who answered my query - Timothy Cahill, > Charles DiSimone, Eli Franco, Matthew Kapstein, Suhas Mahesh, Jonathan > Silk, Péter-Dániel Szántó, and Herman Tull! I forward an impressing list of > your collected suggestions on the topic: > > - Gérard Fussman, "Dans quel type de bâtiment furent trouvés les > manuscrits de Gilgit?", in: Journal Asiatique, 292.1-2 (2004): 101-150; > - Martin Delhey, The Library at the East Indian Buddhist Monastery of > Vikramaśīla: an Attempt to Identify Its Himalayan Remains, in: Manuscript > Cultures 8 (2015): 1-24; > - O.v. Hinüber: The Gilgit Manuscripts. An Ancient Buddhist Library in > Modern Research: Introduction, in: From Birch Bark to Digital Data: Recent > Advances in Buddhist Manuscript Research, ed. Paul Harrison and Jens-Uwe > Hartmann, Vienna 2013. > - Gregory Schopen: On the absence of Urtext and Otiose Ācāryas: Books, > Buildings, and Lay Buddhist Ritual at Gilgit, in: Gérard Colas and Gerdi > Gerschheimer (eds.), Écrire et transmettre en Inde classique. (École > française d'Extrême-Orient. Études thématiques 23) Paris 2009; > - Ludo Rocher, in: Journal of the American Oriental Society 131 (2011): > 133-135; > - Jahnabi Barooah Chanchani, "History from the Margins: Literary Culture > and Manuscript Production in Western India in the Vernacular Millennium," > Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript > Studies, Volume 6, Number 2, Fall 2021, pp. 197-222 ( > https://www.academia.edu/67281775/History_from_the_Margins_Literary_Culture_and_Manuscript_Production_in_Western_India_in_the_Vernacular_Millennium > ); > - Noriyuki Kudo, "On and around the Gilgit Manuscripts in the National > Archives of India", in: The Journal of Oriental Studies 29 (2019): 168–181; > - Muni Jambuvijay (ed.), A catalogue of manuscripts in Jaisalmer Jain > Bhandaras, Delhi 2000; > - Bimal Kumar Datta, Libraries and Librarianship of Ancient and Medieval > India ( > https://archive.org/details/librariesandlibrarianshipofancientandmedievalindiabimalkumardatta_794_o/page/n5/mode/2up > ); > - Jeremiah Losty, Art of the Book in India ( > https://archive.org/details/artofthebookinindiajeremiahlostyp.bookonprintinghistory_705_f/page/74/mode/2up > ); > - Barua Pulinbihari, Monastic Libraries in Ancient India as depicted in > Buddhist and Jaina texts ( > https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/156523?mode=full); > - Kavīndrācārya List: A list of books in the private library of the famous > Kavīndrācārya Sarasvatī (~1600 CE) ( > https://archive.org/details/kavindracaryasuc00kaviuoft); > - Christopher Minkowski, "Sanskrit Scientific Libraries and Their Uses: > Examples and Problems of the Early Modern Period", in: F. Bretelle and C. > Proust (eds.), Looking at it from Asia: The Processes that shaped the > sources of the History of Science, Boston Studies in Philosophy of Science > 206 (2010): 81-114. > > Yours, > Christian > > Am 31.01.2022 11:49, schrieb Matthew Kapstein: > > Dear Christian, > I recall that Gerard Fussmann had some interesting reflections on the > Gilgit manuscripts in this respect, but I cannot locate the reference > just now. Perhaps if this jogs the memory of someone else on the list, > it can be located. > I do hope that you post the results of this query to the list as a > whole - it is a most important topic. > best regards, > Matthew > Matthew Kapstein > Directeur d'études, émérite > Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris > Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, > The University of Chicago > https://brill.com/view/title/60949 > https://ephe.academia.edu/MatthewKapstein > ------------------------- > From: INDOLOGY <[email protected]> on behalf of > Christian Ferstl via INDOLOGY <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, January 31, 2022 4:39 AM > To: Indology <[email protected]> > Subject: [INDOLOGY] Premodern Indian libraries and archives > Dear Friends and Colleagues, > on behalf of an MA student I would like to ask whether you can > recommend > literature on ancient Indian libraries and archives, their > organisation, > structure, storage etc. in courts, monasteries and in private. > Thanks in advance, > Christian Ferstl > University of Vienna > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >
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