[INDOLOGY] Bursaries for study trips to London

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Yes, dig around on the library website.

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   http://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/about-the-collections/asian-collection/

There's also a huge collection of historical images.  About 8000 paintings,
drawings, Thankas, mica slides, colonial watercolour albums,  and other
items from South Asia, only partially catalogued. See

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   http://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/about-the-collections/art-collection/

Best,
Dominik Wujastyk

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On 31 January 2015 at 18:59, Dipak Bhattacharya <dipak.d2004 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks! The news is welcome! Is there any printed or online catalogue of
> the Library?
> Best
> DB
>
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 11:02 PM, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
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>>    http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2015/01/wellcome-trust-research-bursaries/
>>    -
>>    http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Medical-humanities/Funding-schemes/Research-resources-awards/Research-bursaries/index.htm (more
>>    detail)
>>
>> The Wellcome Trust is offering bursaries of £5,000-£25,000 to support
>> people who wish to visit London and work on items in the Wellcome Library.
>> Bear in mind, the Wellcome Library has one of the largest collections of
>> South Asian manuscripts outside India.  It includes Sanskrit, Prakrit,
>> Pali, Sinhalese, Tibetan and other materials in large numbers, and quite a
>> lot of it not yet explored or exploited.
>>
>> The 2015 application deadlines are *1 April* and *1 October*.
>>
>> These bursaries would pay for someone to visit the Wellcome Library to
>> work on its collections.  The Wellcome Library is also just a few minutes
>> walk from the British Library, SOAS, the Warburg Institute and other
>> academic resources in Bloomsbury.  It is an hour by train to either
>> Cambridge or Oxford.
>>
>> Best,
>> Dominik Wujastyk
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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