From CXEV at CA.MCGILL.MUSICA Wed Feb 6 00:40:44 1991 From: CXEV at CA.MCGILL.MUSICA (Richard P. Hayes) Date: Tue, 05 Feb 91 19:40:44 -0500 Subject: Calendar conversion Message-ID: <161227014954.23782.4319303118762055965.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Some time ago there was some discussion about writing a computer program that would convert Samvat dates into their Gregorian equivalents. I have no particular need of such a program, but I would appreciate any information about the procedure that is used to convert between the two calendric systems. Is there a standard reference work that explains the conversion process? Richard Hayes From ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL Wed Feb 6 09:33:39 1991 From: ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Wed, 06 Feb 91 09:33:39 +0000 Subject: Calendar conversion Message-ID: <161227014956.23782.5356420169741714280.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Richard, Brett Kessler has been very active in writing the date conversion utility that you refer to. It is called chrono, and currently deals with Gregorian, Julian and Hillel dates. The Hijra calendar is to go in very shortly. Brett is kindly allowing me to test the program as he develops it. It is currently looking very robust and good, and promises to be a very useful program for all of us. With the test suite that Brett has been making available to me, he includes the following bibliography: Bhatt, Harihar and Chhotubhai Suthar. The Length of a Tithi. Journal of the Oriental Institute Barode, 18.1968/69, 232-236. Cunningham, Alexander. Book of Indian eras, with tables for calculating Indian dates. -- Varanasi : Indological Book House, reprint 1970. Gahlot, Sukhvir Singh and G.L. Devca. Indian Calendars, A.D. 1444 to A.D. 1543. -- Jodhpur, 1980 Ginzel, F.K. Handbuch der mathematischen und technischen Chronologie. -- Leipzig : J.C. Hinrichs, 1906. Jacobi, Hermann. Tables for calculating Hindu dates in true local time. Epigraphia Indica 2.1894m 487-498. Johnson, H.M. Conversion of Vikrama Sa?vat Dates. JAOS, 58.1938, 668f. Pillai, L.D. Swamikannu. Indian chronology, solar, lunar and plane ctary. A practical guide to the interpretation and verification of tithis, nakshatras, horoscopes and other Indian time-records, B.C. 1 to A.D. 2000. New Delhi, 1982 (Tables) -- An Indian Ephemeris (AD 700 to AD 1799) (7 v) -- An Indian Ephemeris (AD 1800 to AD 2000) (1 v) Schram, R. Kalenderiographische und chronologische Tafeln. Leipzig, 1908 From LRAK543 at EDU.UTEXAS.CC.UTXVMS Wed Feb 6 19:05:00 1991 From: LRAK543 at EDU.UTEXAS.CC.UTXVMS (LRAK543 at EDU.UTEXAS.CC.UTXVMS) Date: Wed, 06 Feb 91 13:05:00 -0600 Subject: Calendar conversion Message-ID: <161227014958.23782.12354492116220034231.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> TO: Richard P. Hayes RE: Calendar Conversion I assume that the response of 6 February by Dominik Wujastyk has answered yourquestion. Winfred P. Lehmann From WILSONJ at EDU.UNCWIL.VXC Sun Feb 10 00:57:00 1991 From: WILSONJ at EDU.UNCWIL.VXC (JOE WILSON) Date: Sat, 09 Feb 91 20:57:00 -0400 Subject: Request information on list Message-ID: <161227014963.23782.2466265602382519047.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> REVIEW INDOLOGY QUERY INDOLOGY INDEX INDOLOGY From CXEV at CA.MCGILL.MUSICA Sun Feb 10 11:58:36 1991 From: CXEV at CA.MCGILL.MUSICA (Richard P. Hayes) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 91 06:58:36 -0500 Subject: Calendar conversion Message-ID: <161227014960.23782.6137591897120339667.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Yes, thank you. And thanks also to Dominik for another one of his characteristically thorough and helpful reponses. From CXEV at CA.MCGILL.MUSICA Tue Feb 12 12:09:03 1991 From: CXEV at CA.MCGILL.MUSICA (Richard P. Hayes) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 91 07:09:03 -0500 Subject: Job opening at McGill Message-ID: <161227014961.23782.17957697682490884263.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> The Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University, invites applications for a tenure track appointment in Japanese Religion. Teaching responsibilities will include Buddhism, Shinto, and New Religious Movements. An ability to teach Chinese religions at an undergraduate level would be an asset. This appointment is at the Assistant Professor level and will begin June 1, 1991 (or later). Candidates must hold the Ph.D. and demonstrate a strong research potential. Salary will be commensurate with qualification and experience (minimum salary for rank is $38,740). In accordance with Canadian immigration regulations, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. Closing date for receipt of applications is April 1, 1991. Applications, including a complete dossier and at least three letters of reference received directly from the referees, should be forwarded to Dean Donna Runnalls, Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University, 3520 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2A7. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Please pass the above advertisement on to anyone you know who may be interested in applying. Canadian immigration regulations require that if the post is offered to and accepted by a non-Canadian, the hiring institution must show in writing that the person hired is more qualified than any Canadian who applied for the post. But the competition is open to non-Canadians. It could be added that the ideal candidate would have the ability to teach a wide range of East Asian religions at the undergraduate level, and at the graduate level be capable of leading seminars and supervising theses in the specialized area of Japanese Buddhism. A strong knowledge of the Japanese language is therefore essential. The tendency at McGill is to approach religious traditions through their literary records. From K493750 at EARN.CZHRZU1A Wed Feb 13 16:00:53 1991 From: K493750 at EARN.CZHRZU1A (Peter Schreiner) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 91 16:00:53 +0000 Subject: ALLC Annual Report Message-ID: <161227014965.23782.10799126197523487874.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> At one of the conferences of the ALLC some years ago a Specialist Group on languages and literatures of the Indian Subcontinent was formed, of which I have been acting as "representative". The hope was that the group would serve as a formum for the exchange of information; it seems to boil down to my having to write an annual report. Now with INDOLOGY at hand I would like to inquire whether any of you would want to shahre knowledge about projects, prospects, programs, activities, publications, method(ology), software, etc. which might be mentioned in the report for the benefit not only of indologists but also of a wider public interested in literary and linguistic computing. Thanks and greetings, Peter Schreiner From hcf1dahl at EARN.UCSBUXA Thu Feb 14 17:22:31 1991 From: hcf1dahl at EARN.UCSBUXA (hcf1dahl at EARN.UCSBUXA) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 91 09:22:31 -0800 Subject: REACH on FTP Message-ID: <161227014967.23782.4721863363192837811.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> _REACH_, Research and Educational Applications of Computers in the Humanities, the newsletter of the Humanities Computing Facility of the University of California, Santa Barbara, is now available in electronic form through anonymous FTP. FTP is a UNIX process which lets you transfer files from a distant computer to your own system. Your local computer center staff should be able to provide you with information on using FTP from your own account. Once you have FTP available, enter one or the other of the two following equivalent commands to gain access to the UCSB computer storing the files: ftp ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu or ftp 128.111.122.50 Try the first version, and, if that doesn't work, then try the second. Log on with the name "anonymous," and use your e-mail address as a password. Next, move to the directory containing the files by entering the command: cd hcf Now that you're in the correct directory, you can get a list of all the file names by entering the command: ls Then, to transfer any of the files to your own system, enter the command: get filename First try transferring the file called "readme." It shows the contents of each of the files in the directory, and gives detailed instructions for the FTP process, including the complete log of an actual FTP session. Finally, end your session with the "quit" command. If you encounter any difficulties in using the process, send me an e-mail note and I'll try to enlist the assistance of one of our local wizards. I'd be particularly interested to hear from those who find this archive a useful form of resource. Regards, Eric Dahlin HCF1DAHL at ucsbuxa.bitnet From ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL Thu Feb 14 20:38:21 1991 From: ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 91 20:38:21 +0000 Subject: REACH on FTP Message-ID: <161227014969.23782.2981921509367253820.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Eric, Thank you for the information about electronic-REACH. I was glad to notice that this INDOLOGY group was mentioned in the latest issue. Perhaps we shall get a flood of new members? Best wishes, Dominik From K493750 at EARN.CZHRZU1A Thu Feb 14 20:53:21 1991 From: K493750 at EARN.CZHRZU1A (Peter Schreiner) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 91 20:53:21 +0000 Subject: ALLC Report Message-ID: <161227014971.23782.3616304762538033300.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> At one of the conferences of the ALLC some years ago a Specialist Group on languages and literatures of the Indian Subcontinent was formed, of which I have been acting as "representative". The hope was that the group would serve as a forum for the exchange of information; it seems to boil down to my having to write an annual report. Now with INDOLOGY at hand I would like to inquire whether any of you want to share knowledge about projects, prospects, programs, activities, publications, method(ology), software, etc., etc. which might be mentioned in the report for the benefit not only of indologists but also of a wider public interested in literary and linguistic computing. Thanks and greetings, Peter Schreiner From ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL Thu Feb 14 20:54:40 1991 From: ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 91 20:54:40 +0000 Subject: Machine readable text of Buddhacarita Message-ID: <161227014973.23782.2272953707175088583.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> On a recent visit to England, Peter Schreiner gave me a copy of the Buddhacarita on disk. I shall be depositing it for Peter at the Oxford Text Archive, where it will be available to all and sundry, at no cost. I could also put a copy in the file store associated with this INDOLOGY group, on the Liverpool machine (subject to agreement from the Liverpool authorities). Then we INDOLOGISTs could retrieve a copy in a simple way, using one of the LISTSERV commands (sending something like "send buddhacarita text" to "listserv at liverpool.ac.uk"). The file would be sent to you as email. Does this appeal to us? Peter, what do you think? Incidentally, for those who are not acquainted with Professor Schreiner's work, I hope he will not mind if I mention the fact that he has typed onto disk a large number of large texts, including several major classical Sanskrit works, and at least two puranas. He codes the texts for sandhi and compound breaks as he goes, so the texts are in a very useful state for textual analysis. I know Peter is very diffident about the quality of the transcriptions, but from what I have seen the texts are in excellent shape, and I am certain that any of us who used them would be only too glad to contribute corrections to a master copy. (I am very grateful to Professor Deshpande, who did a very thorough job correcting the Bhagavadgita text that I had had scanned from the Edgerton edition, using a Kurzweil scanner; this text is available in the Oxford archive.) I know that Peter does not have time to deal with a lot of requests for texts, so perhaps people could refrain from asking him about texts until he volunteers information. At the present, the Buddhacarita is on offer, via me. Dominik From magier at EDU.COLUMBIA.CC.CUNIXF Fri Feb 15 14:39:34 1991 From: magier at EDU.COLUMBIA.CC.CUNIXF (David Magier) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 91 09:39:34 -0500 Subject: Machine readable text of Buddhacarita Message-ID: <161227014974.23782.13705101018428262664.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Columbia University in New York has, within its library system, a new, impressive Electronic Text Center, which is highly equipped, and which has started collecting electronic texts of many sorts, in many formats, and with many types of software for text analysis, manipulation, etc. Among other interesting things, they now have the texts identified as the 'demonstration disks' of the Asian Classics Input Project, entitled "Ten Major Texts from the Kangyur and Tengyur Collections of Classical Sanskrit Literature in Tibetan Translation, including native catalogs to the Kangyur and Tengyur, with a special supplement: the Complete Cataloged Listings of Tibetan Works of the United States Library of Congress". This very large, heavily funded project has Tibetan monks in India working night and day inputting these texts, and running them through very rigorous accuracy checking. Full texts available in this collection so far include: Abhisamayalamkara Madhyamakavatara Abhidharmakosa Pramanavarttika Vinayasutra Mulaprajna Uttaratantra Catalog to the Kangyur, Derge edition Catalog to the Tengyur, Derge edition Catalog to the Kangyur, Lhasa edition U.S. Library of Congress Tibetan-Language listings Selected errata to the Delhi edition of the Derge Kangyur & Tengyur For more information about this project, contact The Asian Classics Input Project Washington Area Office 11911 Marmary Road Gaithersburg, Maryland USA 20878-1839 phone: (301) 948-5569 OR The Asian Classics Input Project New York Area Office c/o The Princeton Clab of New York Box 57 15 West 43rd Street New York, New York USA 10036 phone: (201) 364-1824 In order to help the ETC develop its collection of electronic texts, I would be most appreciative if other members of this discussion forum would alert to the existence of any other machine-readable texts in the area of Indology (or even any other fields in South Asian studies). Thank you very much. -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ ____________________ 304 International Affairs /// -- David Magier -- \\\ Columbia University ||| South Asia ||| New York, N.Y. 10027 ||| Southeast Asia ||| (212) 854-8046 \\\ South Pacific /// -------------------- magier at cunixf.cc.columbia.edu From bkessler at COM.HP.HPL.HPLB Fri Feb 15 21:08:16 1991 From: bkessler at COM.HP.HPL.HPLB (Brett Kessler) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 91 13:08:16 -0800 Subject: Machine readable text of Buddhacarita Message-ID: <161227014976.23782.14216472212603694886.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> I would love to have a copy of the Buddhacarita. One thing to keep in mind is that for those of us outside the UK, the Oxford Text Archives aren't quite so convenient: we have to order the material on tape, which means we have to find someone to write a cheque and someone else to mount the tape, and do a lot of waiting. It's a great service, to be sure, but not quite as convenient as it could be. The LISTSERV idea sounds good, provided there is some mechanism for sending large texts in chunks so as not to gag mail servers. For those of us on the Internet, an ftp server would be ideal for this sort of thing. -- Brett Kessler brett_kessler at hplabs.hp.COM From ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL Sat Feb 23 11:32:23 1991 From: ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Sat, 23 Feb 91 11:32:23 +0000 Subject: Harvard online group for Religious Studies Message-ID: <161227014978.23782.11525160497327747938.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> This announcement appeared today in the HUMANIST discussion group. I thought it might be of interest to those of you who might not already receive HUMANIST. Dominik ------- Forwarded Message Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 1062. Wednesday, 20 Feb 1991. Date: Tue, 19 Feb 91 14:48:05 EST From: Tim Bryson Subject: New List for Scholars in Religious Studies The Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions has inaugurated an online seminar for scholars concerned with the comparative and historical study of religions. We invite members of the Humanist list who might be interested to join us. An extract from our charter follows. Let me add that we recently invited subscribers to contribute syllabi and bibliographic references to be made available to the rest of the group through archived files. The Religion Seminar was inaugurated in February 1991. It is sponsored by the Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions. The CSWR was founded in 1958 to foster research in the comparative and historical study of religions. It continues this program under its fourth director, Dr. Lawrence E. Sullivan. Our aim is to encourage scholarly discussion relating to the academic study of religion and religions. We do not intend to compete with groups which discuss personal faith or personal theologies. Our interest lies more in history, sociology, aesthetics, psychology, anthropology, and philosophy - in other words, study of religion in the academic mode. In this discussion we wish to include scientists as well as phenomenologists, generalists as well as specialists. Relevant issues include methodology in the study and teaching of religions; comparative themes such as myth, ritual, mysticism, art, and community; and issues specific to particular religious traditions. We wish to include local or non-literate religions as well as world religions. We could exchange syllabi if we are teachers or discuss books of interest whoever we are. We could discuss the use of computers in the study or teaching of religions: for example, machine readable texts and multi-media programs. In this connection, we welcome historical background about religious movements in the news but will leave partisan discussion of religious politics and polemics to other lists who may wish to host such conversations. This is a "moderated" list. The editors reserve the right not to post inappropriate submissions. The seminar serves as an arena for exchange of informed views in a spirit of balanced criticism and with a tone of mutual respect. Please address inquiries to Religion at HarvardA or to the editors at TBRY at HarvardA. Thank you. Lawrence E. Sullivan, Director Tim Bryson, Administrator Center for the Study of World Religions Harvard University tbry at harvarda 617-495-4486 ------- End of Forwarded Message From hcf1dahl at EARN.UCSBUXA Thu Feb 28 20:34:13 1991 From: hcf1dahl at EARN.UCSBUXA (hcf1dahl at EARN.UCSBUXA) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 91 12:34:13 -0800 Subject: REACH on FTP Message-ID: <161227014980.23782.82374757641192174.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> This is an addendum to my recent posting on the availability through anonymous FTP of _REACH_, Research and Educational Applications of Computers in the Humanities, the newsletter of the Humanities Computing Facility of the University of California, Santa Barbara. If you are FTPing from a computer using the CMS operating system, you'll find that CMS will insist on each file having a two part name of the "filename filetype" construction. You won't have any trouble transferring the files containing the various issues of _REACH_, because each of those has a compound UNIX name such as "reach.9101" which CMS happily turns into a "filename filetype" construction during the FTP file transfer process. However, CMS doesn't like the "readme" file with its single part name, and will give you an error message if you try to transfer it without renaming it during the transfer process. Fortunately, such renaming during the FTP process is quite straightforward. To transfer the "readme" file just use the command: get readme readme.memo This will transfer the "readme" file to your machine as "readme.memo," which CMS will find quite acceptable. I did ask our local FTP wizard if it might not be a good idea for me to rename my "readme" file to "readme.memo" and eliminate the problem at its source, but he advised against that technique, citing long established UNIX conventions. Regards, Eric Dahlin HCF1DAHL at ucsbuxa.bitnet