Sanskrit-Tibetan Textual Work

[Royce Wiles]

>Tabo Monastery is in Spiti, Himchal Pradesh.  It has the jumbled
>remnants (35,000 folios) of what was once a very extensive library
>with many early high-quality mss.   There has been an Austro-Italian
>project to sort, study and microfilm what is there.  Prof Steinkellner
>is involved in the project, I believe.


Dr. Paul Harrison of the University of Canterbury, gave a paper a few years
ago here in Canberra about the work on the manuscripts in Tabo. (I don't
think it was an Austro-Italian project by the way, maybe New
Zealand-Italian?).

I'm sure he has published accounts somewhere by now but do not have
references here. Maybe it would be best to contact him directly. I think he
may be in London about now (Numata Professorship?).

His snail mail address:

Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch, New Zealand