From Jonathan.Silk at um.cc.umich.edu Fri Jul 1 01:22:00 1994 From: Jonathan.Silk at um.cc.umich.edu (Jonathan.Silk at um.cc.umich.edu) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 94 21:22:00 -0400 Subject: Staal's film Message-ID: <161227016931.23782.18341738059001603588.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> A few days ago I asked about "Altar of Fire." Thanks to those who gave advice. In the end, thanks to the kindness of the staff of the Association for Asian Studies I got the details, and thought I would share it for the information of all. The film / video is available from University of California Extension / center for Media and Independent Learning / 2000 Center Street, Fourth Floor / Berkeley CA 94704. Phone (510) 642-0460, fax (510) 643-8683. The film is listed in their 1993-1994 catalogue as #37360, for sale in 16mm film for $900 (this is NOT a misprint!!), video $295, or rental for $55 (one day's use!). (One can watch "Return of the Jedi" a considerable number of times for that amount.) Anyway, I don't suppose Prof. Staal profits much from this, but somebody does, I assume. jonathan.silk at um.cc.umich.edu From pclaus at s1.csuhayward.edu Sun Jul 3 23:15:45 1994 From: pclaus at s1.csuhayward.edu (pclaus at s1.csuhayward.edu) Date: Mon, 04 Jul 94 07:15:45 +0800 Subject: Study Abroad Program Message-ID: <161227016932.23782.2811708698452254163.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> The Asian Studies Program of California State University, Hayward is offerring a Study Abroad Program in India. The academic program of studies includes courses in anthropology, business and sociology, combined with a "Discover India" tour, from January 3 through March 15, 1995. The program will be located at the Manipal (deemed) University near the Arabian Sea coast town of Udupi, in the State of Karnataka. The innovative facilities and outreach programs of Manipal University will be utilized in developing numerous fieldwork opportunities within each course of study. The cost of the program is in the order of $4,000, including travel to-from and within India; tuition; and living expenses. For further information, please contact Prof. Bill Van Groenou, Department of Sociology, California State University, Hayward CA 94542. Or, Phone: (510-) 881-3919. Email enquiries may be sent to: pclaus at csuhayward. Peter J. Claus fax: 510-727-2276 Phone: 510-704-9636 pclaus at s1.csuhayward.edu From rrocher at sas.upenn.edu Mon Jul 4 16:12:01 1994 From: rrocher at sas.upenn.edu (rrocher at sas.upenn.edu) Date: Mon, 04 Jul 94 12:12:01 -0400 Subject: publishers Message-ID: <161227016936.23782.5019106700160997631.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Could someone on the list who has access to either of the following works let me know the name of the publisher? Rheede to Draakestein, Hendrik Adriaan van. Hortus Indicus Malabaricus (Amsterdam, 1678-1703) I used the copy in the India Office Library in London. the original edition of Indian Decisions (Old Series), vol.1: Supreme Court Reports, Bengal ed. by T. A. Venkasawmy Row (Madras, 1911) (there is a later reprint published by the Law Printing House, Madras) I used the copy in the Indian National Library in Calcutta. I would appreciate your help. Rosane Rocher rrocher at mail.sas.upenn.edu From hsa01dk at scorpio.goldsmiths.ac.uk Mon Jul 4 15:20:09 1994 From: hsa01dk at scorpio.goldsmiths.ac.uk (hsa01dk at scorpio.goldsmiths.ac.uk) Date: Mon, 04 Jul 94 16:20:09 +0100 Subject: Journal of Buddhist Ethics Message-ID: <161227016934.23782.17726730732611995250.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> ANNOUNCING A NEW SCHOLARLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO BUDDHIST ETHICS JOURNAL OF BUDDHIST ETHICS (ISSN: 1076-9005) 1. EDITORIAL GENERAL EDITORS Damien Keown University of London, Goldsmiths Charles S. Prebish Pennsylvania State University TECHNICAL EDITOR Wayne Husted Pennsylvania State University EDITORIAL BOARD Richard Gombrich, Oxford University Charles Hallisey, Harvard University Richard Hayes, McGill University Christopher Ives, University of Puget Sound Leslie Kawamura, University of Calgary Winston King, Vanderbilt University (Emeritus) Reginald Ray, University of Colorado Paul Williams, University of Bristol Others to be Named Later 2. ABOUT THE JOURNAL AIMS The Journal of Buddhist Ethics has been established to promote the study of Buddhist ethics through the publication of research papers, discussion articles, bulletins, and reviews. DESCRIPTION The Journal of Buddhist Ethics is the first academic journal dedicated entirely to Buddhist ethics, and is innovative in adopting a totally electronic mode of publication. In most other respects, however, it will function as a traditional scholarly journal. Research papers and discussion articles submitted to the journal will be subject to blind peer review. THE CONCEPT OF AN ON-LINE JOURNAL An on-line journal differs from a traditional journal in publishing electronically as opposed to a printed format. The Journal of Buddhist Ethics will also publish material on an on-going rather than a periodic basis, eliminating any backlog between acceptance and publication. An on-line journal is NOT the same as a newsgroup, discussion list, or bulletin board. WHY PUBLISH ON-LINE? On-line journals are a logical development in the use of information technology. The dissemination of information through this medium has three main advantages over publication in the traditional manner, namely, cost, speed, and ease of access. Other advantages of an electronic medium include keyword searching and the use of multimedia and hypertext formats. EDITORIAL POLICY The Editors are committed to the widest dissemination for research published by the journal. 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The Journal of Buddhist Ethics publishes material in the following four categories: 1) Research Papers (5,000 words and over) 2) Discussion Articles (2,000 words or less) 3) Bulletins (1,000 words or less). 4) Book Reviews 8. QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, SUGGESTIONS The editors welcome your questions, comments, and suggestions. Please feel free to send e-mail to our general editorial address (jbe-ed at psu.edu) or to any of the following addresses: hsa01dk at gold.ac.uk Damien Keown csp1 at psuvm.psu.edu Charles S. Prebish wrh7 at psuvm.psu.edu Wayne Husted ************************************************* Damien Keown HSA01DK at gold.ac.uk Department of Historical & Cultural Studies University of London, Goldsmiths Lewisham Way London UK, SE14 6NW Voice (+44) 071 692 7171 Ext.2153 Fax: (+44) 071 694 8911 ************************************************* From pclaus at s1.csuhayward.edu Mon Jul 4 12:39:19 1994 From: pclaus at s1.csuhayward.edu (pclaus at s1.csuhayward.edu) Date: Mon, 04 Jul 94 20:39:19 +0800 Subject: Study Abroad Progam Announcement Message-ID: <161227016938.23782.18387704594690553530.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Date: July 2, 1994 The Asian Studies Program of California State University, Hayward is offering a Study Abroad Program in India. The academic program of studies will include courses in anthropology, business and sociology, combined with a "Discover India" tour, from January 3 through March 15, 1995. The program will be located at the Manipal (deemed) University near the Arabian Sea coast town of Udupi, in the State of Karnataka. The innovative facilities and outreach programs of Manipal University will be utilized in developing numerous fieldwork opportunities within each course of study. The cost of the program is in the order of $4,000, including travel to-from and within India; tuition; and living expenses. For further information, please contact Prof. Bill Van Groenou, Department of Sociology, California State University, Hayward CA 94542. Or, Phone: (510-) 881-3919. Email enquiries may be sent to: pclaus at csuhayward." Peter J. Claus fax: 510-727-2276 Phone: 510-704-9636 pclaus at s1.csuhayward.edu From pclaus at s1.csuhayward.edu Mon Jul 4 22:42:04 1994 From: pclaus at s1.csuhayward.edu (pclaus at s1.csuhayward.edu) Date: Tue, 05 Jul 94 06:42:04 +0800 Subject: Study Abroad Program Message-ID: <161227016941.23782.14493012495786276226.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Date: July 2, 1994 The Asian Studies Program of California State University, Hayward is offering a Study Abroad Program in India. The academic program of studies will include courses in anthropology, business and sociology, combined with a "Discover India" tour, from January 3 through March 15, 1995. The program will be located at the Manipal (deemed) University near the Arabian Sea coast town of Udupi, in the State of Karnataka. The innovative facilities and outreach programs of Manipal University will be utilized in developing numerous fieldwork opportunities within each course of study. The cost of the program is in the order of $4,000, including travel to-from and within India; tuition; and living expenses. For further information, please contact Prof. Bill Van Groenou, Department of Sociology, California State University, Hayward CA 94542. Or, Phone: (510-) 881-3919. Email enquiries may be sent to: pclaus at csuhayward." Peter J. Claus fax: 510-727-2276 Phone: 510-704-9636 pclaus at s1.csuhayward.edu .  From rrocher at sas.upenn.edu Tue Jul 5 14:43:43 1994 From: rrocher at sas.upenn.edu (rrocher at sas.upenn.edu) Date: Tue, 05 Jul 94 10:43:43 -0400 Subject: address of Richard Fox Young Message-ID: <161227016943.23782.5074051708452033938.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Michaels Axel wrote: > > > > Could anybody tell me the address of Richard Fox Young? Thanks in advance. Axel > Michaels, Univ. of Berne, Switzerland (E-Mail: michaels at ubeclu.unibe.ch) > > Meiji Gakuin University 1518 Kamikurata-cho Totsuka-ku Yokohama 244 JAPAN Rosane Rocher (rrocher at mail.sas.upenn.edu) From MICHAELS at UBECLU.unibe.ch Tue Jul 5 15:08:48 1994 From: MICHAELS at UBECLU.unibe.ch (Michaels Axel) Date: Tue, 05 Jul 94 16:08:48 +0100 Subject: address of Richard Fox Young Message-ID: <161227016939.23782.18311390553857877753.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Could anybody tell me the address of Richard Fox Young? Thanks in advance. Axel Michaels, Univ. of Berne, Switzerland (E-Mail: michaels at ubeclu.unibe.ch) From BRYSON at HARVARDA.HARVARD.EDU Wed Jul 6 21:14:23 1994 From: BRYSON at HARVARDA.HARVARD.EDU (Tim Bryson) Date: Wed, 06 Jul 94 16:14:23 -0500 Subject: Taking a computer to India Message-ID: <161227016945.23782.15910661529372994315.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> A friend of mine plans to take a Mac SE to India for a year. She is asking for recommendations on computer insurance, specifically any company in the USA that will insure the computer such that she could buy a replacement computer if the SE breaks down or gets lost or stolen. If anyone has any experiences or recommendations to share I will pass them on. Thanks, Tim Bryson (bryson at harvarda.harvard.edu) From lnelson at teetot.acusd.edu Thu Jul 7 06:34:44 1994 From: lnelson at teetot.acusd.edu (Lance Nelson) Date: Wed, 06 Jul 94 23:34:44 -0700 Subject: Taking a computer to India Message-ID: <161227016946.23782.7078190146514582675.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Tim, Try Safeware, 800/848-3649. They offer international coverage, though I've never tried it. Good luck. Lance Nelson University of San Diego On Wed, 6 Jul 1994, Tim Bryson wrote: > A friend of mine plans to take a Mac SE to India for a year. She is > asking for recommendations on computer insurance, specifically any > company in the USA that will insure the computer such that she could > buy a replacement computer if the SE breaks down or gets lost or stolen. > If anyone has any experiences or recommendations to share I will pass > them on. Thanks, Tim Bryson (bryson at harvarda.harvard.edu) > From aklujkar at unixg.ubc.ca Thu Jul 7 16:04:37 1994 From: aklujkar at unixg.ubc.ca (aklujkar at unixg.ubc.ca) Date: Thu, 07 Jul 94 09:04:37 -0700 Subject: None Message-ID: <161227016948.23782.13497079210976492345.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Recently, Tim Bryson (bryson at harvarda.harvard.edu) wrote: "A friend of mine plans to take a Mac SE to India for a year. She is asking for recommendations on computer insurance, specifically any company in the USA that will insure the computer such that she could buy a replacement computer if the SE breaks down or gets lost or stolen. If anyone has any experiences or recommendations to share I will pass them on. I doubt if any insurance company will replace a machine if it breaks down during normal use or due to willful action. However, the main reason I am responding is that I do have experience of using MacSEs in India for four months a few years ago. First of all, if the machine is not made to run on a 220 volts current, you will need a step-down transformer made precisely to the specifications of the machine. Such transformers are usually heavy. Secondly, it would be wise to rent in India a voltage stabilizer. Good stabilizers are bulky too. Even after making these provisions, I experienced that more floppies got damaged (not an alarmingly high number and some I could repair and reuse upon return) during my summer in India than in a whole year in North America. Probably the floppies could not take the wild voltage fluctuations, while the computer itself could withstand them. On my last trip to India, I took a Powerbook, which comes equipped for 110 as well as 220 voltages, and bought only a Rs. 3 (?) adapter plug upon arriving in Bombay. My general practice was to recharge the battery and run the computer on it but at times I plugged the computer directly into the socket. There was no damage to the machine or the floppies. Besides, I could very easily carry the machine in my hand luggage even to the dustiest of villages (and give basic computer use lessons to some Jain munis whose knowledge, curiosity and willingness to adapt to new technology far surpass those of most professional Sanskritists at Indian universities). I would highly recommend investment in a Powerbook or something like it. From D.Wujastyk at ucl.ac.uk Thu Jul 7 23:24:08 1994 From: D.Wujastyk at ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Thu, 07 Jul 94 17:24:08 -0600 Subject: Tamil dictionary dispute II Message-ID: <161227016950.23782.11607746595782453666.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Note sent to Dominik Wujastyk, distributed with the author's permission. DICTIONARY OF CONTEMPORARY TAMIL: A NOTE by S. Ramakrishnan, Cre-A, Madras. Since language is a product of cultural and technological forces, it keeps changing. New words come into use; words disappear; existing words lose some of their senses; or take on additional senses; forms of words change; grammatical behaviour changes. Therefore, there is need to document periodically the words and the changes that take place in their meaning content. Kriyavin Tarkalat Tamil Akarati (Dictionary of Contemporary Tamil) - from now on DCT - precisely does this. This dictionary is a major milestone - perhaps the second one in this century, the first one being the Tamil Lexicon (1926) of Madras University. The uniqueness of DCT dictionary is its exclusive focus on the contemporary variety of Tamil i.e., meanings of Tamil words in use today. No other existing Tamil dictionary can claim this. This means that the most important feature of this dictionary consists of identifying the sense/senses in which a word is used today. to identify the senses, as many as 40,000 printed pages of various Tamil texts such as newspaper reports, government publications, magazine writing, fiction, school texts etc., were scanned by a team of researchers on the guidelines provided by the chief editor and a board of advisors consisting of eminent linguists. More than two years or 30 person years have been spent in scanning the sources and creating a citation bank of 150,000 citations, identifying the lexical items (i.e., the words to be defined). It is based ont he citations that the senses of a word have been identified. It is hence evident that even before an entry was constructed, a great deal of physical and intellectual effort had gone into the basic work. At the second stage, a team of specialists in English with help from the editorial board helped in giving the English meanings. Thus, Kriyavin Tarkalat Tamil Akarati (Tamil-Tamil-English) is the first dictionary to: a) list the words in modern Tamil b) identify the present-day meaning of these words c) give the meanings of words in the form of definitions d) give the English meanings of these words This dictionary was published in January 1992. The copyright of the Dictionary is with me, S Ramakrishnan. Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies, Koln University, Germany, without permission from me, has used Kriyavin Tarkalat Tamil Akarati and has created: a) an on-line Tamil - English Lexicon (OTL) which is accessible to all the Tamil scholars with E- Mail facility all over the world, incorporating all the words and senses found in DCT together with their English meanings. The rendering of the English meanings is exactly as it is in DCT b) a Tamil-German Dictionary useful not only to German students of Tamil but also those who want to translate from Tamil into German. In this Dictionary IITS has taken all the Headwords from DCT and rendered into German the English meanings found in DCT. The order of the entries of the Tamil-German Dictionary follows exactly the order of entries in DCT. The Tamil-German Dictionary, according to Dr. Dieter Kapp, Professor at IITS, Koln, "owes much to your (i.e., S Ramakrishnan's) path breaking 1992 publication of a Tamil-Tamil-English dictionary with regard to the new meanings of Tamil words." Both the actions are badly affecting the sales of DCT and image of Cre-A: As for the sales, DCT is now available with me in machine readable form and is priced at an affordable price to foreign scholars. The investment I made in DCT can be partly recovered only through sale of hard cover copies abroad and the machine readable version. The Indian price is too low and the investment can be recovered only through a very large print order (which is not happening) over a short period. By making available the words in contemporary Tamil identified by us and their English meanings through a facility which is right at the table of the scholars, the scholars have been effectively prevented from buying the machine readable copies. It is my estimate that I would have sold at least 20 copies of the machine readable form and realised US $ 40,000. It may be mentioned that couple of months back we sold a copy to a Japanese scholar, Professor Kazuhiko Machida of Tokyo University at US $ 2000. In the case of Tamil-German dictionary, but lifting en masse the headwords and translating the English meanings into German, the IITS has appropriated what rightfully is my intellectual property. And, in the process, a) by not paying any compensation to me and b) by not having to spend the huge sums like we had to do in creating DCT, the IITS has both robbed me and gained at my expense. As for the image, Cre-A: is held in high esteem by scholars for the healthy academic norms we have been following for twenty years now. These scholars when they see the OTL or the Tamil- German dictionary, both of which do not carry the technical information provided in the DCT, would doubt our integrity and would conclude that we have compromised on our professional standards. == Dominik Wujastyk Phone (and voice messages): +44 71 611 8467 Wellcome Institute, FAX: +44 71 611 8545 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE. From D.Wujastyk at ucl.ac.uk Thu Jul 7 23:25:00 1994 From: D.Wujastyk at ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Thu, 07 Jul 94 17:25:00 -0600 Subject: Tamil dictionary dispute III Message-ID: <161227016952.23782.13282707269387313761.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Letter sent to Dominik Wujastyk, distributed with the author's permission. ====================================================================== S. Ramakrishnan, Cre-A, Madras, 16/6/94. Dear Dominik, You are aware that Cre-A: published in January 1992 Kriyavin Tarkalat Tamil Akarati, a unique dictionary focusing exclusively on the contemporary variety of Tamil. This dictionary for the first time, has listed the words in modern Tamil, defining them in Tamil and giving their English meaning. The copyright of this dictionary is with me. Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies, University of Koln, Germany, has made available a facility called `Online Tamil Lexicon', (Tamil-English) on International Communications and Research Network (INTERNET). I find that all the words in Kriyavin Akarati together with their English meaning have been incorporated int he OTL. What is important is that the English meaning is rendered in the very same way as it is in Kriyavin Akarati. This has been done without my knowledge and permission. Similarly, a Tamil-German Dictionary has been developed by the same Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies, Koln, taking all the headwords from Kriyavin AkaratI and rendering into German the English meanings given in Kriyavin Akarati. This also has been done without my permission. Since these constitute infringement of my copyright, I moved the High Court at Madras praying for an interim injunction against IITS. The injunctions has been granted. I am enclosing a copy of the Court order. I thought I should bring this to your attention since we have common interest in databases and are concerned with the ethics that should inform academic activities. S. Ramakrishnan. == Dominik Wujastyk Phone (and voice messages): +44 71 611 8467 Wellcome Institute, FAX: +44 71 611 8545 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE. From D.Wujastyk at ucl.ac.uk Thu Jul 7 23:25:18 1994 From: D.Wujastyk at ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Thu, 07 Jul 94 17:25:18 -0600 Subject: Tamil dictionary dispute I. Message-ID: <161227016954.23782.13763488985492670879.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Indian Express, Madras, Wednesday June 8, 1994. Front page: ============================================================ GERMAN UNIVERSITY `LIFTS' FROM TAMIL DICTIONARY A Madras scholar moves High Court for Remedy by Rasheeda Bhagat Madras Even as there is a lot of debate on intellectual property rights and even as many research scholars from Indian universities take flak for plagiarising Ph.D. theses from foreign universities, an interesting case of a Madras writer and publisher accusing the Indology department of a German university of "lifting en masse" a modern Tamil dictionary brought out by his company, has come to light. The infuriated scholar - S. Ramakrishnan, managing partner of Cre-A Publishing House - has moved the Madras High Court for remedy. Justice Goverdhan has issued an interim injunction directing the defendant - the Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies (IITS). University of Cologne, Germany - restraining it "from interfering with the plaintiff's copyright of the work `Kriyavin Tarkalat Tamil Agarathi' (Tamil-Tamil-English) dictionary". The German university has been restrained from making available copies of its work, which Ramakrishnan accuses of infringing on his copyright, to any computer network or database, or the publication or distribution of the printed copies of its work. Advocate Sriram Panchu who represented Ramakrishnan in this landmark case in the High Court submitted that as the German publication, which had violated his client's copyright, was already available on the computer network at the IIT and the SPIC Science Foundation at Madras, the Madras High Court had jurisdiction to take up the case. Cre-A is an innovative publishing house in Tamil started in 1974, which has attempted to explore the hitherto unexplored areas in the language. In 1987, ramakrishnan goat a Rs. 7.2 lakh grant from HRD Ministry to compile and publish a dictionary of modern Tamil (Tamil-Tamil-English). Summarising the objective of the publication, Ramakrishnan said, "There is need to periodically document the words and the changes in meaning and content. Language, a product of cultural and technological forces, keeps changing. New words come into use, words disappear, existing words lose some of their sense or take additional sense and forms of words and grammatical behaviour also change." To achieve this objective, in the initial stage, a team of Tamil scholars, working ont he Dictionary of Contemporary Tamil (DCT), had to plough through 140,000 pages of various Tamil texts such as newspaper reports, government publications, magazines, fiction, school texts, etc. In the next stage, a team of English scholars were involved in the exercise. As a result of six years of work the dictionary was published in January 1992, with the copyright resting on the managing editor of the dictionary, S. Ramakrishnan. But he was shocked to find that within six months - by June 1992 - the Indology Department of the Cologne University came out with the Tamil-German dictionary. He says that of the 18,000 entries, nearly 16,000 have been lifted from DCT, with the English meaning provided by the Madras work, being translated into German. Even the order of the entries has remained unchanged. Worse the Online Tamil-English Lexicon (OTL) of the German University has been made available through the E-Mail to a computer network to which people all over the world have access. "These days, as it is rare to find a foreign Tamil scholar who does not use computers, I had no other remedy than to approach the court because I am certain that the sales of our work will be affected. By making available words in contemporary Tamil, identified by us, and their English meanings through a facility available right at the table of the scholars, they have been prevented from buying our work," he said adding that only a couple of months ago he had sold a machine readable copy (on diskettes) to a Japanese scholar at US $2000. On October 19, 1993, Ramakrishnan received a letter from Dieter B. Kapp. Director of the IITS, in which he categorically acknowledged that their "Tamil-German dictionary owes much to your pathbreaking 1992 publication of a Tamil- Tamil-English dictionary". Later, however, another letter from the Institute, dated March 5, 1994, said that the dictionary was not to be published in the near future. Said Ramakrishnan, "I received this letter when the dictionary was already in circulation. This is totally unethical. Institutions which should set high standards in academic integrity and pave the way for intellectual cooperation among various cultures, are doing things, which undermine this very purpose. Advocate Sriram Panchu says that the High Court interim stay is the first step in the case. "In the midst of all this GATT discussion, when we are at the receiving end of charges and allegations of breach of intellectual property rights, I was delighted to take up a case like this. These people had spent years of work on the dictionary, and it was atrocious on the part of the German institute to straightaway poach on the work. Ramakrishan adds that the most serious implication of the whole issue is that the institute might not stop at this. According to an E Mail communication exchange dated April 17, the IITS representative, in answer to a question from a user, says "We are working on machine readable versions of the works of several modern Tamil authors starting with Rajam Iyer's `Kamalambal Charitiram' and including works of Kalki, Kothainayakiammal, Akilan, Jeyakanthan, Janakiraman Mauni, etc. "I wonder whether they have got permission to do so from the copyright holders for these works," he added bitterly. == Dominik Wujastyk Phone (and voice messages): +44 71 611 8467 Wellcome Institute, FAX: +44 71 611 8545 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE. From marcus.banks at anthropology.oxford.ac.uk Thu Jul 7 17:52:08 1994 From: marcus.banks at anthropology.oxford.ac.uk (marcus.banks at anthropology.oxford.ac.uk) Date: Thu, 07 Jul 94 17:52:08 +0000 Subject: Mac SEs in India Message-ID: <161227016955.23782.16337865751076924737.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Responding to Tim Bryson's request: "A friend of mine plans to take a Mac SE to India for a year..." [etc.], advises against it and suggests a Mac PowerBook. Frankly, I would advise against even this (especially if the budget does not permit it) unless the friend really has to have Mac fancyness (eg. non-Roman screen fonts), and I would certainly advise against the SE which must be reaching the end of its little life anyway. My planned option for overseas work, and already implemented by colleagues on trips to India and Africa, is to buy a cheap palm top. So long as your fingers are not too stubby you can do all the basic data entry you want (in Roman script, admittedly), most of them run for hours on easily-available AA batteries, and you can slip the smallest ones into an inside pocket for security. A friend recently stored the manuscript of an entire book on a solid-state memory card, revised it on a palm top in the field while also entering new data, and downloaded the whole lot onto his Mac when he returned home. Marcus Banks, Oxford From aklujkar at unixg.ubc.ca Fri Jul 8 17:29:00 1994 From: aklujkar at unixg.ubc.ca (aklujkar at unixg.ubc.ca) Date: Fri, 08 Jul 94 10:29:00 -0700 Subject: Fosse inquiry Message-ID: <161227016961.23782.9805563160636770573.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> In response to the inquiry from Lars Martin Fosse: Prof. Daniel H. H. Ingalls retired from Harvard some years ago. As far as I know, he has no e-mail address. His postal address is: The Homestead/The Yard, Hot Springs, VA 24445, U.S.A. From madhav.deshpande at um.cc.umich.edu Fri Jul 8 18:39:10 1994 From: madhav.deshpande at um.cc.umich.edu (madhav.deshpande at um.cc.umich.edu) Date: Fri, 08 Jul 94 14:39:10 -0400 Subject: Daniel H. H. Ingalls Message-ID: <161227016962.23782.482784197635262373.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> The last time I received a communication from Prof. Ingalls, his snail- mail address was as follows: Daniel H.H. Ingalls Chairman The Homestead Hot Springs Virginia, USA I assume he can still be reached at this address. Madhav Deshpande From MICHAELS at ubeclu.unibe.ch Fri Jul 8 14:25:21 1994 From: MICHAELS at ubeclu.unibe.ch (Michaels Axel) Date: Fri, 08 Jul 94 15:25:21 +0100 Subject: Milarepa on disc or data base Message-ID: <161227016957.23782.11064742248309859088.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> I would be interested in rnam-thar and/or mgur-bum of Milarepa on disc or data base. Any information would be welcomed. Thanks in advance. Axel Michaels, michaels at ubeclu.unibe.ch >?From THRASHER at MAIL.LOC.GOV 08 1994 Jul GMT 11:01:11 Date: 08 Jul 1994 11:01:11 GMT From: "MAIL.TMCIOLEK" Subject: ANNOUNCING ANU-BUDDHA-L WAIS D ------------------------------------ AUTHOR: MAIL.TMCIOLEK ------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------- BELOW ARE THE DISTRIBUTION LIST ENTRIES THAT THIS MESSAGE WAS SENT TO BUT CANNOT BE REPLIED TO: skreija at cwis.unomaha.edu asialib at info.anu.edu.au taoism-studies-l at coombs.anu.edu.au socsci-netlore-l at coombs.anu.edu.au asia-www-gopher-news-l at coombs.anu.edu.au socsci-www-gopher-news-l at coombs.anu.edu.au coombseminars at coombs.anu.edu.au ------------------------------------------------------------- Received: from ANU.ANU.EDU.AU by MAIL.LOC.GOV (Soft-Switch Central V4L380P3); 08 Jul 1994 01:17:56 GMT Received: from info (info.anu.edu.au) by anu.anu.edu.au (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AB16432; Fri, 8 Jul 94 15:13:40 EST Received: from coombs.anu.edu.au by info (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA10265; Fri, 8 Jul 94 15:16:47 EST Message-Id: <9407080516.AA10265 at info> Received: from [150.203.147.11] by coombs.anu.edu.au with SMTP (1.37.109.8/16.2) id AA21572; Fri, 8 Jul 1994 15:09:12 +1000 X-Sender: tmc407 at coombs.anu.edu.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 8 Jul 1994 16:20:00 +0100 To: buddha-l at ulkyvm.louisville.edu, coombseminars at coombs.anu.edu.au, socsci-www-gopher-news-l at coombs.anu.edu.au, asia-www-gopher-news-l at coombs.anu.edu.au, socsci-netlore-l at coombs.anu.edu.au, taoism-studies-l at coombs.anu.edu.au, sackman at plains.nodak.edu, asialib at info.anu.edu.au, gopherjewels at einet.net, admin at ds.internic.net, skreija at cwis.unomaha.edu From: T.Matthew Ciolek Subject: Announcing ANU-Buddha-L wais dbase on Coombsquest gopher Dear Colleagues, With apologies for any cross-posting, ========================================== ANU-Buddha-L wais dbase on Coombsquest gopher ========================================== The Coombsquest gopher - Social Sciences and Humanities Information Facility at ANU, has been further enhanced by the latest addition of an online WAIS database called 'ANU-Buddha-L' which archives transactions and scholarly exchanges of 600 + subscribers to the BUDDHA-L - Buddhist Academic Discussion Forum At present the database contains 4.5 Mb od data worth of high quality BUDDHA-L e-mail messages from the period July 1993 - June 1994. More data (including earlier log files ) are planned to be regularly added in the forthcoming months. The database has been constructed as a co-operative project involving Richard P. Hayes, McGill Univ, Canada; Jim Cocks, Univ. of Louisville, USA and T.Matthew Ciolek, Australian National Univ, Australia. Gopher pointer: =============== Name=Search the "ANU-Buddha-L" database Type=7 Port=70 Path=waissrc:/Coombs-db/ANU-Buddha-L.src Host=cheops.anu.edu.au A convenient gopher access to these materials can be obtained via the following nested menus of the Coombsquest gopher Name=COOMBSQUEST Soc.Sci & Humanities Inf.Facility at ANU Type=1 Port=70 Path= Host=cheops.anu.edu.au (1) * COOMBSQUEST Soc.Sci & Humanities Inf.Facility at ANU/ * COOMBSWAIS - ANU Soc.Sci.WAIS Server & Databases/ * Search the "ANU-Buddha-L" database (2) * COOMBSQUEST Soc.Sci & Humanities Inf.Facility at ANU/ * Soc.Sci.Inf. Resources - Coombsquest Networked Facilities/ * Buddhist Studies Facility (COOMBSQUEST,ANU)/ * Search the "ANU-Buddha-L" database World Wide Web pointer: ======================= ANU -Buddha-L dbase ******************************* - with many regards - -================================================== Dr T. Matthew CIOLEK tmciolek at coombs.anu.edu.au ANU Social Sciences & Asian Studies Information Systems Administrator, phone: +61 (0)6 249 0110 fax: +61 (0)6 257 1893 Coombs Computing Unit, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia =================================================== From ZYSK at ACFcluster.NYU.EDU Fri Jul 8 20:34:30 1994 From: ZYSK at ACFcluster.NYU.EDU (ZYSK at ACFcluster.NYU.EDU) Date: Fri, 08 Jul 94 16:34:30 -0400 Subject: R C Jamieson Message-ID: <161227016964.23782.3040907972805877066.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> I should greatly appreciate it if someone could give me the email address and mailing address of Mr R C Jamieson, who, at last report, was connected with Cambridge University Library. Thanks, Ken >?From D-JOHN4 at vm1.spcs.umn.edu 11 94 Jul CDT 11:25:59 Date: 11 Jul 94 11:25:59 CDT From: Donald C Johnson Subject: publishers Rosane, The 1911 edition as well as the 1961 reprint were both done by The Law Printing House in Madras, at least according to our cataloging records. Alas, Ames does not have a copy of the Hortus Indicus Malabaricus. Don Johnson From l.m.fosse at easteur-orient.uio.no Fri Jul 8 08:14:16 1994 From: l.m.fosse at easteur-orient.uio.no (l.m.fosse at easteur-orient.uio.no) Date: Fri, 08 Jul 94 18:14:16 +1000 Subject: Daniel H. H. Ingalls Message-ID: <161227016958.23782.513490708109186866.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Does anybody have the email adress (or for that matter: the snail mail address) of Daniel H. H. Ingalls? I have been told that he is at Harvard, but I have no certain information about him. Best regards, Lars Martin Fosse Lars Martin Fosse Department of East European and Oriental Studies P. O. Box 1030, Blindern N-0315 OSLO Norway Tel: +47 22 85 68 48 Fax: +47 22 85 41 40 E-mail: l.m.fosse at easteur-orient.uio.no From rrocher at sas.upenn.edu Wed Jul 13 02:11:12 1994 From: rrocher at sas.upenn.edu (rrocher at sas.upenn.edu) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 94 22:11:12 -0400 Subject: publishers Message-ID: <161227016965.23782.5794902158193128976.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Thanks for the info. I appreciate it. Warm regards, Rosane. From MacMagic at aol.com Wed Jul 13 17:40:02 1994 From: MacMagic at aol.com (MacMagic at aol.com) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 94 13:40:02 -0400 Subject: Mac SEs in India Message-ID: <161227016967.23782.13841639740148378433.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> I took a MacSE to India and Kashmir and it worked wonderfully. The Mac has a variable power supply which accepts voltages from 100 through 240 volts at 50 or 60 cycles. This is especially important in India where the voltage may fluctuate widely. In Kashmir the power was out hours at a time and I compensated for this by using a battery powered inverter. The users ability to edit and create non Roman fonts on the Macintosh is unparalleled. A dealer in New Delhi and Hyderabad who a the authorized distributor for Apple Computer is Odin Computers India Ltd. Their phone number in New Delhi is 685 7717 or 7718. >?From THRASHER at MAIL.LOC.GOV 13 1994 Jul GMT 11:56:11 Date: 13 Jul 1994 11:56:11 GMT From: ALLEN W THRASHER Subject: HINDI SELF-INSTRUCTION PROGRAM Would the person who has developed a computer program for self-instruction please contact me (NOT the net) at the address below? A library patron has asked me if such a thing existed I and told him I had heard of one on INDOLOGY. Thanks, Allen W. Thrasher Senior Reference Librarian Southern Asia Section Library of Congress Washington, DC 20540-4744 tel. (202) 707-5600 fax (202) 707-1724 Internet: thrasher at mail.loc.gov Any opinions expressed are mine and not those of the Library of Congress or its management. From FRS00JDW at UNCCVM.UNCC.EDU Wed Jul 13 21:08:22 1994 From: FRS00JDW at UNCCVM.UNCC.EDU (J. Daniel White) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 94 16:08:22 -0500 Subject: Location of Kamasutram mss. Message-ID: <161227016968.23782.6523276370625021184.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> I am now assembling mss. for a critical edition of the Kamasutram with a new English translation. Having noted the accessibility of most non-published mss. in Indian archives, libraries, etc., I am now trying to locate the availability of the same in museums and odther collections in the U.S. and Europe. If you know of such holdings, please contact me at my e-mail address. I am interested in Sanskrit mss. which do and do not contain Indian miniature paintings, line drawings, etc. THANKS! >?From THRASHER at MAIL.LOC.GOV 16 1994 Jul GMT 15:33:15 Date: 16 Jul 1994 15:33:15 GMT From: ALLEN W THRASHER Subject: HELP WITH BHOJPURI TRACT We have here at the Library of Congress a Bhojpuri tract from the Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta, dated 1909. There is documentation along with it, possibly by mistake, indicating the text may have something to do with Sir George Grierson. The script is Bhojpuri which our catalogers are unable to read, and I cannot find a table of Bhojpuri Devanagari equivalents. Would anyone be able to make anything of this if I send them a photocopy (8 short pp.), and to transliterate it according to the LC-ALA table for Hindi, which I can supply? I would be most grateful. Allen W. Thrasher Senior Reference Librarian Southern Asia Section Library of Congress Washington, DC 20540-4744 tel. (202) 707-5600 fax (202) 707-1724 Internet: thrasher at mail.loc.gov Any opinions expressed are mine and not those of the Library of Congress or its management. From hueckst at CC.UManitoba.CA Sat Jul 16 20:45:34 1994 From: hueckst at CC.UManitoba.CA (Robert A. Hueckstedt) Date: Sat, 16 Jul 94 15:45:34 -0500 Subject: HINDI SELF-INSTRUCTION PROGRAM Message-ID: <161227016970.23782.15899587143563858939.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> On Wed, 13 Jul 1994, ALLEN W THRASHER wrote: > Would the person who has developed a computer program for > self-instruction please contact me (NOT the net) at the address > below? A library patron has asked me if such a thing existed I > and told him I had heard of one on INDOLOGY. > Thanks, > Allen W. Thrasher > Senior Reference Librarian > Southern Asia Section > Library of Congress > Washington, DC 20540-4744 > tel. (202) 707-5600 > fax (202) 707-1724 > Internet: thrasher at mail.loc.gov > > Any opinions expressed are mine and not those of the Library of > Congress or its management. > Please send info to me, too. Thanks. Bob Hueckstedt hueckst at cc.umanitoba.ca Asian Studies Centre 328 Fletcher Argue University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba CANADA R3T 2N2 >?From 72240.3447 at compuserve.com 17 94 Jul EDT 15:52:08 Date: 17 Jul 94 15:52:08 EDT From: Ian Tresman <72240.3447 at compuserve.com> Subject: New edition of language book Press Release The Multilingual PC Directory 3rd Edition, publ. July 1994. 256 pages. Soft bound. The Multilingual PC Directory is a source guide to multilingual and foreign language software for IBM PCs and compatibles. For a 1200 word description, please email 72240.3447 at compuserve.com for more details. From gangolly at csc.albany.edu Tue Jul 19 01:17:47 1994 From: gangolly at csc.albany.edu (gangolly at csc.albany.edu) Date: Mon, 18 Jul 94 21:17:47 -0400 Subject: Journal of Buddhist Ethics Message-ID: <161227016972.23782.533505980773189624.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> hi thomas! hope you had a good vacation. i think the electronic journal a great idea, but the title: journal of buddhist ethics will not fly (at least among the hardnosed smart-ass accountants.). i would love to be involved in any way you think fit. i suggest you start it as a newsletter as a first start. you will need to first decide the following. 1. ftp site for housing the papers. 2. format for the papers. most sites use .dvi and .ps. 3. paper style and bibliographystyle. bibtex files are popular. apalike. ieee, harvard, chicago are popular. i think it would be a great idea to carefully screen papers so that the credibility is maintained...no bullshit that appears in one of the official bogus journals. i think rigor would be very important. anyway let me know what happens. jagdish > > Hi Jagdish, I'm back from vacation. What do you think of this? Want to > be an editor, technical editor, editorial board of an online journal? > Think we could do it? I can think of you, Nils Kandelin, Miklos, > Raj Srivastava, Ying Zhou as a group. Let me know your thoughts. I think > that the section that is most advanced should certainly have a > on-line journal. Can you see anything wrong with putting out a general > message on the Anet AIntsys group? By wrong I mean politically - too soon > too premature, etc.. I'd like to pre-empt the idea. > Thomas > > Thomas Verghese Tele: 202-994-0909 > Dept. of Accountancy > The George Washington University > Washington D.C. 20052 > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > ANNOUNCING A NEW SCHOLARLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO BUDDHIST ETHICS > > > JOURNAL OF BUDDHIST ETHICS > > (ISSN: 1076-9005) > > > 1. EDITORIAL > > GENERAL EDITORS > Damien Keown > University of London, Goldsmiths > Charles S. Prebish > Pennsylvania State University > > TECHNICAL EDITOR > Wayne Husted > Pennsylvania State University > > EDITORIAL BOARD > Richard Gombrich, Oxford University > Charles Hallisey, Harvard University > Richard Hayes, McGill University > Christopher Ives, University of Puget Sound > Leslie Kawamura, University of Calgary > Winston King, Vanderbilt University (Emeritus) > Reginald Ray, University of Colorado > Paul Williams, University of Bristol > Others to be Named Later > > 2. ABOUT THE JOURNAL > > AIMS > > The Journal of Buddhist Ethics has been established to promote the > study of Buddhist ethics through the publication of research > papers, discussion articles, bulletins, and reviews. > > DESCRIPTION > > The Journal of Buddhist Ethics is the first academic journal > dedicated entirely to Buddhist ethics, and is innovative in > adopting a totally electronic mode of publication. In most other > respects, however, it will function as a traditional scholarly > journal. Research papers and discussion articles submitted to the > journal will be subject to blind peer review. > > THE CONCEPT OF AN ON-LINE JOURNAL > An on-line journal differs from a traditional journal in publishing > electronically as opposed to a printed format. The Journal of > Buddhist Ethics will also publish material on an on-going rather > than a periodic basis, eliminating any backlog between acceptance > and publication. An on-line journal is NOT the same as a newsgroup, > discussion list, or bulletin board. > > WHY PUBLISH ON-LINE? > > On-line journals are a logical development in the use of > information technology. The dissemination of information through > this medium has three main advantages over publication in the > traditional manner, namely, cost, speed, and ease of access. Other > advantages of an electronic medium include keyword searching and > the use of multimedia and hypertext formats. > > EDITORIAL POLICY > > The Editors are committed to the widest dissemination for research > published by the journal. As well as publishing on-line they will > also explore possibilities for the publication of selected material > in partnership with traditional presses. > > CITATION INDEXES > > The journal will be searched by the usual citation indexes for this > subject classification. > > 3. SUBJECT CLASSIFICATIONS > > The Journal of Buddhist Ethics interprets "ethics" as including > subject matter in the ten areas listed below. > > 1. Vinaya and Jurisprudence > 2. Medical Ethics > 3. Philosophical Ethics > 4. Human Rights > 5. Ethics and Psychology > 6. Ecology and the Environment > 7. Social and Political Philosophy > 8. Cross-cultural Ethics > 9. Ethics and Anthropology > 10. Interfaith Dialogue on Ethics > > 4. GLOBAL RESOURCE CENTER > > In conjunction with the journal an on-line Global Resource Center > has been established with the aim of providing research tools for > scholarship in the field of Buddhist ethics. Projects currently > planned include a bibliography of publications in Buddhist ethics > and a register of research in progress. Further possibilities > include an electronic archive of relevant periodical literature, > and the production of teaching materials for use in undergraduate > courses. At present the Center provides World Wide Web links to a > wide range of electronic resources in Buddhism. It can be accessed > by following the instructions under "World Wide Web Browsers" in > the section entitled "How the Journal Works". > > 5. HOW TO SUBSCRIBE > > To subscribe to the Journal of Buddhist Ethics, simply send an > e-mail message to > > jbe-ed at psu.edu > > specifying "JBE Subscription" in the Subject Line. When you > subscribe, your e-mail address is appended to our subscription > list. This list is used primarily for announcing newly published > material and will provide titles, abstracts, and retrieval > instructions. Calls for papers and other important news concerning > the journal may also be distributed in this way. In order to > minimize the burden on network resources manuscripts published by > the journal will not be distributed automatically. The journal is distributed > free of charge. > > 6. HOW THE JOURNAL WORKS > > The resources of the journal can be accessed in a variety of ways. > > "World Wide Web Browsers" > > If you are familiar with WWW browsing software, open a URL > connection to > > http://www.psu.edu/jbe/jbe.html > > "Anonymous FTP" > > The journal can be retrieved from our Anonymous FTP Site at > > ftp.cac.psu.edu in the subdirectory /pub/jbe. > > Individuals who experience difficulty in obtaining the journal, or > do not have access to any of the retrieval methods listed above, > should contact the editors. > > 7. GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS > > Unsolicited manuscripts pertaining to any of the topics listed > under the journal's "Subject Classifications" are welcome. > > The Journal of Buddhist Ethics publishes material in the following > four categories: > > 1) Research Papers (5,000 words and over) > 2) Discussion Articles (2,000 words or less) > 3) Bulletins (1,000 words or less). > 4) Book Reviews > > 8. QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, SUGGESTIONS > > The editors welcome your questions, comments, and suggestions. > Please feel free to send e-mail to our general editorial address > (jbe-ed at psu.edu) or to any of the following addresses: > > hsa01dk at gold.ac.uk Damien Keown > csp1 at psuvm.psu.edu Charles S. Prebish > wrh7 at psuvm.psu.edu Wayne Husted > > > ************************************************* > Damien Keown HSA01DK at gold.ac.uk > Department of Historical & Cultural Studies > University of London, Goldsmiths > Lewisham Way > London UK, SE14 6NW > Voice (+44) 071 692 7171 Ext.2153 > Fax: (+44) 071 694 8911 > ************************************************* > -- jagdish ****************************************************************************** * Jagdish S. Gangolly, School of Business,* As gold which he can not spend * * Associate Professor of Accounting and of* will make no man rich, so * * Management Science & Information Systems* knowledge which he can not apply* * State University of New York at albany * will make no man wise. * * Albany, NY 12222. * * * Phone:(518) 442-4978 Fax:(518) 442-3944,* --- Samuel Johnson (Idler, 8) * * e-mail:gangolly at csc.albany.edu * * ****************************************************************************** From deonard at transit.nyser.net Tue Jul 19 13:50:43 1994 From: deonard at transit.nyser.net (Dayan Deonarine) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 94 09:50:43 -0400 Subject: Arya Samaj Sammelan Message-ID: <161227016974.23782.4147036575864818168.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?? ARYA PRATINIDHI SABHA AMERICA ? ? ?? Congress of Arya Samajs in North America ? ? ?? P.O. Box 2 Alma MI 48801 ? ? ?? ? ? ?? Presents ? ? ?? ? ? ?? ? ? ?? FOURTH ARYA MAHA SAMMELAN ? ? ?? August 19-21 1994 ? ? ?? ? ? ?? Headquarters Plaza Hotel, Headquarters Plaza ? ? ?? Morristown New Jersey 70960 ? ? ?? (201) 898-9100 ? ? ?? Theme ? ? ?? ? ? ?? VEDIC VISION OF ARYA SAMAJ IN THE 21ST CENTURY ? ? ?? ? ? ?? ? ? ?? Conatct: ? ? ?? Rajinder P Gandhi MD ? ? ?? 7 Algonquin Trail ? ? ?? Saddle River NJ 07458 ? ? ?? (201) 818-0969 ? ? ?? (201) 818-0966 Fax ? ? ?? ? ? ?? ? ? ?? or ? ? ?? Girish Khosla ? ? ?? ? ? ?? (517) 463-4166 ? ? ?? ? ? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? From ckw1 at columbia.edu Tue Jul 19 18:02:39 1994 From: ckw1 at columbia.edu (Christian K. Wedemeyer) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 94 14:02:39 -0400 Subject: Hindi material Message-ID: <161227016977.23782.12024948257184586022.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> On Tue, 19 Jul 1994, Lars Martin Fosse wrote: > Could anybody advise me about material for the study of Hindi. I am looking > for manuals and readers (with glossaries and commentaries). What is best > for self-study? I would also be grateful for information about similar > material for Urdu and Marathi. > > Best regards, > Lars Martin Fosse Dear Lars and other folk interested in learning Asian languages, A useful source of information on eduacational materials in print for various South Asian languages is the Inventory of Language Materials (or ILM) which is newly available online from the Southern Asian Institute of Columbia University. Many languages are available: Hindi, Urdu, Nepali--I myself am "guest editor" for Tibetan--and others. The folk in charge are Fran Pritchett (who does ILM) and David Magier who takes care of the online aspect. This latter is called "South Asia Gopher" and has a lot of useful info for South Asianists, including a directory of scholars of South Asia which includes searchable "keyword" interests. There are also catalogues of resources available online and lots of other goodies. Those interested may access this info using "gopher" software or by direct telnet connection to the host at Columbia (columbianet.columbia.edu--it is found under "CLIO Plus" heading). Other questions may be addressed to David Magier, South Asia Librarian, whose E-address is: magier at columbia.edu. At the very least, those interested in being part of the larger, E-community of South Asia scholars should submit their info: name, title, institution, address, phone, and a description of their work, to him for inclusion in the directory of South Asia scholars. Best Wishes, Christian K. Wedemeyer From vineet at bocaraton.ibm.com Tue Jul 19 18:29:25 1994 From: vineet at bocaraton.ibm.com (vineet at bocaraton.ibm.com) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 94 14:29:25 -0400 Subject: Hindi material Message-ID: <161227016979.23782.10289749145964377596.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> > A useful source of information on eduacational materials in print for > various South Asian languages is the Inventory of Language Materials (or > ILM) which is newly available online from the Southern Asian Institute of > Columbia University. Many languages are available: Hindi, Urdu, > Nepali--I myself am "guest editor" for Tibetan--and others. The folk in > charge are Fran Pritchett (who does ILM) and David Magier who takes care > of the online aspect. This latter is called "South Asia Gopher" and has a lot > of useful info for South Asianists, including a directory of scholars of > South Asia which includes searchable "keyword" interests. There are also > catalogues of resources available online and lots of other goodies. > Those interested may access this info using "gopher" software or by > direct telnet connection to the host at Columbia > (columbianet.columbia.edu--it is found under "CLIO Plus" heading). > Other questions may be addressed to David Magier, South Asia > Librarian, whose E-address is: magier at columbia.edu. At the very least, > those interested in being part of the larger, E-community of South Asia > scholars should submit their info: name, title, institution, address, > phone, and a description of their work, to him for inclusion in the > directory of South Asia scholars. Hello, Is there any ftp site for the above. (Alternative to gopher). Thanks, Vineet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet : vineet at gator.bocaraton.ibm.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- From magier at columbia.edu Tue Jul 19 19:53:56 1994 From: magier at columbia.edu (David Magier) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 94 15:53:56 -0400 Subject: Hindi material Message-ID: <161227016981.23782.6802956106688826972.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Vineet, you asked about ftp access to The South Asia Gopher (which also contains, among hundreds of other things, the Inventory of Language Materials - ILM, for South Asian Languages). Unfortunately, these resources are not yet available as an ftp archive. However, it is easy to connect to the South Asia Gopher, even if you lack gopher software. If you do not use gopher client software, telnet to: columbianet.columbia.edu Once connected to Columbianet, select the menu item marked "CLIO Plus." Within that menu, you'll find an item on the list labelled "Scholarly Electronic Resources by Subject." Select that one, and within it you'll find the South Asia Gopher! For your information, I am attaching below the general description file for the South Asia Gopher and the International Directory of South Asia Scholars, to let you know more of what it contains. Please let me know if you have further questions. Regards, David Magier ------------------cut here------------- Dear South Asianists, I am writing to inform you about The South Asia Gopher, and to solicit an entry from you for the International Directory of South Asia Scholars (an interactive searchable database accessible via the SAG). Here are three short files: I) A brief description of the SAG, including instructions for connecting to it and using it from the internet. II) A document describing the Directory. Your free-text entry can just be emailed to me (magier at columbia.edu). III) A sample Directory entry Please let me know what you think of the SAG and the Directory, and any questions you may have. Thanks. David Magier -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ ____________________________ 304 International Affairs /// -- David Magier -- \\\ Columbia University ||| Director, AREA STUDIES ||| New York, N.Y. 10027-7296 ||| S&SE Asia, Latin America, ||| 212-854-8046 / FAX: 212-854-2495 \\\ Mid-East, Slavic, Africa /// --------------------------- magier at columbia.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I) About The South Asia Gopher The South Asia Gopher (SAG), a collection of network-accessible information resources from all over the world relating to South Asia, is now available to the public over the Internet (via Gopher or direct telnet connection to the host at Columbia University). Although it is stil 'in process' and contains many gaps, and I am still constantly adding to it and refining it, I thought it would be good to make available what I've assembled so far. As the compiler and editor of this service, I will try to post detailed information updates on its development. Meanwhile, a brief decription to let you know what it contains: The major categories of information in SAG are as follows: a) Bibliographic resources 1. A listing of the world's top library collections on South Asia, along with direct links to their online catalogs, as well as brief text files describing the particular strengths of those collections. 2. A link to the South & Southeast Asia Video Archive at University of Wisconsin (Madison), which provides access to their online catalog of videos. b) A sprinkling of links to online resources in Germany, Australia, India, and the UK c) Listings of (and some links to) South Asia-related newsgroups, listservs, mailing lists, bulletin boards, etc. d) Listings of (and some links to) electronic text archives for South Asia materials (e.g. Sanskrit texts online), as well as software for displaying and printing South Asian languages and fonts. e) South Asia Teaching Resources 1) Another link to the S.Asia Video Archive 2) The Inventory of Language Materials (ILM), produced by Professor Frances Pritchett of Columbia, and mounted locally here. f) The International Directory of South Asia Scholars, a fully-searchable keyword-indexed database of scholars, librarians, and other South Asianists, and their teaching/research interests. g) The Directory of South Asia Resrearch Institutes. h) Specialized information archives, databases, and datafiles (e.g. census data, health, environment, etc.). Other new resources (created locally or by groups of South Asianists) which I plan or hope to mount and 'publish' via this gopher include: a Union List of S. Asia Newspapers on Microfilm (under construction by Irene Joshi of Washington and others), a listing of current journals and serials acquired through the Library of Congress Field Office in New Delhi, the Chronology of Urdu Literature, a comprehensive listing of grant and fellowship opportunities for South Asian Studies, and any other text files, databases, bibliographies, or other resources which the community of South Asianists would like to me put into this central repository for world-wide easy access. As you can tell from my brief descriptions above, this effort is still in its infancy, and Columbia University has made a commitment to maintain it and keep it evolving and improving. This will depend to a large extent on your cooperation. While I myself am an experienced internet 'navigator', I can't claim to have located all the appropriate resources that should be listed (and linked) in the SAG. Also, the universe of such resources mounted locally at institutions all over the world changes from day to day. So I would be very grateful if all of you would contribute to this effort by pointing out to me any resources I may have overlooked, any changes in the resources already listed or any problems in using them, or any suggestions for improving the form or content of the SAG to improve its value to the community. Please do send me your comments, submit an entry to the Directory, and help me construct this service to maximize its usefulness to yourself and your colleagues. USING THE SOUTH ASIA GOPHER As promised, Columbia University's South Asia Gopher (SAG) is now up and running and publicly accessible. As you will see when you use it, it is still under development, with quite a few slots being held open for resources that either haven't been fully implemented yet, or which are still being created. In some cases (e.g. the online catalog of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine), the resource is linked into the SAG, but the internet connection to the the service provider is not working properly yet. In other cases (e.g. many of the 'About the South Asia Collection' description files for the various bibliographic resources) the files have not been written yet. As I have mentioned before, I would be most grateful for any feedback from you if you use this service. In particular, I would welcome pointers to information I may have overlooked, things I have improperly cited, or suggestions for improving the 'user interface' (i.e. the arrangement of the menus). Also, I am very eager to expand the coverage of the Directory of South Asia Scholars (under the South Asianists menu), and so I would appreciate it if you would submit an entry for yourself, and pass this message along to other South Asianists so that they may use the service and submit entries for themselves. To connect to The South Asia Gopher: a) If you have a gopher client software, use the following pointer ('bookmark'): Type=1 Name=The South Asia Gopher Host=gopher.cc.columbia.edu Port=71 Path=1/clioplus/scholarly/SouthAsia ---------OR------------- b) simply gopher to: gopher.cc.columbia.edu 71 and then navigate down through the menus as follows: CLIO Plus/Scholarly Electronic Resources By Subject/South Asia ---------OR------------- c) If you do not use gopher client software, please telnet to: columbianet.columbia.edu Once connected to Columbianet, please select the menu item marked "CLIO Plus". Within that menu, you will find the item on the list labelled "Scholarly Electronic Resources by Subject". Select that one, and within it, you will find The South Asia Gopher. --------------------------------------------------------- II) About the International Directory of South Asia Scholars The International Directory of South Asia Scholars is a free, publically available online database of South Asianists from around the world. This service is being provided by Columbia University through The South Asia Gopher, and is compiled and maintained by Dr. David Magier. You will find the Directory under the menu of "South Asianists" in the SAG. The database contains records of individuals who have identified themselves as being involved in South Asian studies. Each record, submitted by the person listed, contains the name, title, affiliation, contact information (generally mail address, phones, FAX, and full email address), and a short statement of the person's activities, teaching and/or research interests, specializations, etc. in the area of South Asian Studies. The entries are free-form text, and one may include any information in any format that seems useful and informative. The database is indexed so that anyone can do a search to locate the record for a particular individual, or one can do a keyword search to find, for example, a list of all the South Asianists located in a given country or city, or all the scholars who are working on a given language or subject or region, etc. For example, a keyword search using the term "Prakrit" will retrieve a listing of all the scholars whose entries contain this word. It is very easy to have your entry included in this database, so that your colleagues from around the world will know who you are and what you are working on and interested in. Experience shows that this type of tool is very helpful in developing new human networks and cooperative research and teaching ventures, getting answers to particular factual queries, and fostering the 'cross-fertilization' of ideas. We would like to invite you to submit an entry so that our database will be as comprehensive and useful as possible. To submit an entry for yourself (or for someone else), please send full contact information and description of your work (as in the sample) by email to magier at columbia.edu or by mail/FAX to: David Magier South Asia Librarian 304 International Affairs Columbia University 420 West 118th Street New York, N.Y. 10027 212-854-8046 / FAX: 212-854-2495 Your description of your work and research or teaching interests should contain as much information as possible to allow people to identify you and your work, and to 'find' you through typical keyword searches (languages, countries or regions, fields and sub-disciplines, ethnic or political groups, etc.). Please feel free to contact Dr. Magier if you have questions about the Directory or need advice on the best way to construct your entry. ------------------- III) SAMPLE ENTRY for the Directory Prof. Willem van Schendel, Department of History, Erasmus University Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands. email: vanschendel at mgs.fhk.eur.nl fax: 31 20 6756437 phone: 31 10 4082515; 31 10 4082486; 31 20 6719820. Regional interests: Bengal (Bangladesh, West Bengal) Northeast India, Tamil Nadu, Burma Themes of recent/current research: poverty, rural social structure, peasant revolt, ethnicity, sericulture, silk industry, smuggling, border studies. Disciplines: history, comparative history, anthropology. also involved in: International Centre for Bengal Studies (ICBS), which publishes translations of work by social scientists from Bengali into English, and from various languages into Bengali. ICBS, started in 1991, has branches in Dhaka, Calcutta, Delhi, the Netherlands, the UK, the US/Canada, Japan, Singapore and Australia/New Zealand. A list of publications can be sent on request. ------------------ SAMPLE ENTRY #2: Philip F. McEldowney South Asia and Middle East Specialist, Collection Development and Bibliography, University of Virginia 503A ALDERMAN LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA 22903-2498 PHONE: (work) 804-924-4987. [home 804-979-6112] FAX: 804-924-4337 E-MAIL: , or alias Home address: 501 DRUID AVE CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA 22902-6041 SUBJECT INTERESTS: Modern Indian history, British colonial policy, imperialism; History of the Central Provinces, Madhya Pradesh, Jabalpur, Nagpur, Hoshangabad, Balaghat; Chattisgarh or Chhattisgarh Satnami movement, tribal Baiga and Gond groups; forest managment, agriculture technology, land revenue, landlord class, tenant conditions, agricultural laborer or labourer situations, moneylender or banking and Marwari families, Pindari or Pindhari history; peasant groups, movements, and agrarian activities. TRAINING AND BACKGROUND: Library Science and Bibliography classes through the University of North Carolina at Greensboro; modern Indian, British, and Chinese history at the University of Virginia; New York State University at Oneonta in Area Studies of modern India and Africa; Comparative Tropical History at the Univeristy of Wisconsin; Languages of Hindi and Urdu. Listserves or listservs of CONSALD and ASEH or American Society of Environmental History. From l.m.fosse at easteur-orient.uio.no Tue Jul 19 08:21:27 1994 From: l.m.fosse at easteur-orient.uio.no (l.m.fosse at easteur-orient.uio.no) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 94 18:21:27 +1000 Subject: Hindi material Message-ID: <161227016976.23782.8530295643170798072.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Could anybody advise me about material for the study of Hindi. I am looking for manuals and readers (with glossaries and commentaries). What is best for self-study? I would also be grateful for information about similar material for Urdu and Marathi. Best regards, Lars Martin Fosse Lars Martin Fosse Department of East European and Oriental Studies P. O. Box 1030, Blindern N-0315 OSLO Norway Tel: +47 22 85 68 48 Fax: +47 22 85 41 40 E-mail: l.m.fosse at easteur-orient.uio.no From sponberg at selway.umt.edu Wed Jul 20 04:47:35 1994 From: sponberg at selway.umt.edu (Alan Sponberg) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 94 22:47:35 -0600 Subject: Hindi material Message-ID: <161227016983.23782.2975664659494239022.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Could I ask that replies to the following request and also to the query on computer-based Hindi study aids be posted to the group. Thanks, Alan Sponberg On Tue, 19 Jul 1994, Lars Martin Fosse wrote: > Could anybody advise me about material for the study of Hindi. I am looking > for manuals and readers (with glossaries and commentaries). What is best > for self-study? I would also be grateful for information about similar > material for Urdu and Marathi. > > Best regards, > > Lars Martin Fosse > > > Lars Martin Fosse > Department of East European > and Oriental Studies > P. O. Box 1030, Blindern > N-0315 OSLO Norway > > Tel: +47 22 85 68 48 > Fax: +47 22 85 41 40 > > E-mail: l.m.fosse at easteur-orient.uio.no > > > From fp7 at columbia.edu Wed Jul 20 12:29:02 1994 From: fp7 at columbia.edu (Frances Pritchett) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 94 08:29:02 -0400 Subject: Hindi material Message-ID: <161227016985.23782.214135676799705782.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear colleagues, By now I hope everyone who is interested in modern language study has seen the several posted replies about the South Asia Gopher on ColumbiaNet and esp. the ILM (Inventory of Language Materials) files included in it. We now cover a number of modern languages and hope to add more soon--our Marathi list is in the process of being made, by Eleanor Zelliot. Soon we hope to have Sanskrit teaching materials listed as well; a compilation is being made by Nadine Berardi. With others to come, as various volunteer editors complete their work. We have only recently taken the ILM lists online, after some years as a modest hard-copy project, and there is much scope for development. Comments, suggestions, and inquiries about the content of ILM should go to me; about the technical computer side, queries should go to David Magier (magier at columbia.edu). Are there more volunteer editors out there who would like to help with some particular language? Frances Pritchett fp7 at columbia.edu On Wed, 20 Jul 1994, Alan Sponberg wrote: > > Could I ask that replies to the following request and also to the query on > computer-based Hindi study aids be posted to the group. > > Thanks, Alan Sponberg > > On Tue, 19 Jul 1994, Lars Martin Fosse wrote: > > > Could anybody advise me about material for the study of Hindi. I am looking > > for manuals and readers (with glossaries and commentaries). What is best > > for self-study? I would also be grateful for information about similar > > material for Urdu and Marathi. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Lars Martin Fosse > > > > > > Lars Martin Fosse > > Department of East European > > and Oriental Studies > > P. O. Box 1030, Blindern > > N-0315 OSLO Norway > > > > Tel: +47 22 85 68 48 > > Fax: +47 22 85 41 40 > > > > E-mail: l.m.fosse at easteur-orient.uio.no > > > > > > > > From msweet at facstaff.wisc.edu Thu Jul 21 20:22:49 1994 From: msweet at facstaff.wisc.edu (Michael J. Sweet) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 94 14:22:49 -0600 Subject: Kamasutra Message-ID: <161227016989.23782.15649709945774702352.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Within the last couple of weeks, there was a query on this list by a person who is doing a critical edition of the Kamasutra. I mentioned this to a friend who is doing work in a related area, and he is very interested in finding out who is doing this and communicating with them. So--could you reappear and identify yourself? Thanks. Michael Sweet Original-Sender: indinst at vax.oxford.ac.uk Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 09:56:48 +0100 From: indinst at vax.oxford.ac.uk To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk Message-ID: <00981F2B.F3239F0C.7 at vax.ox.ac.uk> Subject: CLOSURE OF THE INDIAN INSITUTE LIBRARY OXFORD The Indian Institute Library at Oxford will be closed from September 5th-23rd for the removal of asbestos. There will be no access to the Reading Room for readers or staff so no book fetching service will be possible. Readers are advised to avoid these dates but if that is not possible should contact a member of staff before Monday 22nd August to discuss transfer of books to an alternative Bodleian Reading Room. Regretably, there will also be considerable disruption in the weeks leading up to closure since large numbers of books have to be relocated before work on asbestos removal can begin. The Curatos of the Bodleian Library apologize for any inconvenience caused to readers. Please feel free to post this message to other appropriate newsgroups. Gillian Evison (Indian Institute Librarian) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Indian Institute Library Email: INDINST @ UK.AC.OX.VAX (A department of the Bodleian Library) Oxford Telephone: (0865) 277082 OX1 3BG Telex: 83656 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From magier at columbia.edu Fri Jul 22 15:08:09 1994 From: magier at columbia.edu (David Magier) Date: Fri, 22 Jul 94 11:08:09 -0400 Subject: new publications of interest Message-ID: <161227016987.23782.16324045269049782822.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> For your information, two bibliographical sightings of interest: a) Authority, Anxiety, and Canon: Essays in Vedic Interpretation, Edited by Laurie L. Patton (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994). Its articles examine Vedic interpretive strategies of the ancient, classical, and contemporary periods of Indian history. Its contributors include Brian K. Smith, David Carpenter, and Barbara Holdrege on the Brahmanas and Vedangas; Frederick M. Smith on the Bhagavata Purana; Francis X. Clooney on Vedanta; David L. Gitomer on the Vedic origins of Sanskrit drama; Dorothy Figueira on the European appropriation of the Veda; Anantanand Rambachan on the Veda of Hindu Reform; John E. Llewellyn on Dayanand Sarasvati; and Laurie L. Patton on twentieth century debates concerning Vedic authorship. b) A fascinating and well-written article on the background, compilation and production of the Asian Classics Input Project (Tibetan electronic texts), entitled Digital Dharma (by Erik Davis), in WIRED 2.08, August 1994, Pp.54-59). The article contains discussion of the contents of the project, the selection and production processes, the lives of the monks who are inputting the texts at Sera Mey, and other interesting details, including a Tibetan poem in praise of the ACIP CD-ROM by Gelek Rinpoche, and pointers to a variety of other digital dharma electronic resources. The author, by the way, is at erikd at panix.com -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ ____________________________ 304 International Affairs /// -- David Magier -- \\\ Columbia University ||| Director, AREA STUDIES ||| New York, N.Y. 10027-7296 ||| S&SE Asia, Latin America, ||| 212-854-8046 / FAX: 212-854-2495 \\\ Mid-East, Slavic, Africa /// --------------------------- magier at columbia.edu From flavio.mainero%mandic at ax.apc.org Wed Jul 27 16:57:00 1994 From: flavio.mainero%mandic at ax.apc.org (flavio.mainero%mandic at ax.apc.org) Date: Wed, 27 Jul 94 13:57:00 -0300 Subject: Dharani & Mantra Pitaka Message-ID: <161227016993.23782.3803370737950213630.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Colleagues: I have a friend that looks for some edition of two texts from the Mahasanghika School of buddhism. These texts are the "Dharani" and the "Mantra Pitaka". I have not any other references about them. If somebody knows anything please, send e-mail to me to flavio.mainero at hastinapura.ax.apc.org Thank you. ??? ? ??? ????? ? ??? ?? ? Flavio Mainero ???? ???? ? flavio.mainero%mandic at ax.apc.org (INTERNET) ... A solid?o ? a forma mais perfeita da vida privada. (Morente) --- ? FM ? From FRS00JDW at unccvm.uncc.edu Wed Jul 27 21:05:46 1994 From: FRS00JDW at unccvm.uncc.edu (J. Daniel White) Date: Wed, 27 Jul 94 16:05:46 -0500 Subject: Michael J. Sweet Message-ID: <161227016991.23782.2027284016137022659.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Please send me your e-mail so I may respond to your inquiry re. Kamasutram. I have tried the e-mail signature on your request (msweet at acstaff.wisc.edu) and twice the reply from postmaster is "mail undeliverable." I am interested in corresponding with your friend regarding their related work in progress. Thanks!