[INDOLOGY] A manuscript written in unknown scripts

[Shihong Zhao]

Dear Prof. Kapstein, Dear Prof. Silk,

Thank you for your comments. Unfortunately, I have to close this topic and
delete the photos. Also, I would like to ask anybody who may have
downloaded the photos to delete them. I just realized that the data may
cause some unpredictable problems.

Best regards,
Zhao



Matthew Kapstein <mkapstei at uchicago.edu> 于2019年9月5日周四 下午8:57写道：

> As I recall, the series has 80 or so volumes and just three copies were
> printed. There is also supposed to be a complete catalogue of known palm
> leaf mss in the TAR.
>
> The assumption that the Burmese ms was purchased and brought to Tibet in
> ancient times is unwarranted. It may have been a gift at the Buddhajayanti
> in 1956 for all we know, not to mention other possibilities.
>
> Matthew Kapstein
> EPHE, Paris
>
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> Jonathan Silk via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 5, 2019 1:03:43 PM
> *To:* Shihong Zhao <zhaoshihong11126 at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Indology <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Subject:* Re: [INDOLOGY] A manuscript written in unknown scripts
>
> No one yet grabbed on to this, at least on this list, but ...
>
> >> my professor found in Lhasa some large volumes of books in which there
> are many photographs of South Asian manuscripts. These books belong to a
> big project of an official committee in Lhasa which aims at preserving
> palm-leaf manuscripts in Tibet. <<
>
> if this means what it seems to say, this means that someone, at least,
> namely your professor, has (some?) access to the near-legendary volumes
> produced a few years ago, a set of 61 if memory serves, in which --again,
> as I recall--excellent color photos were reproduced of palm leaf
> manuscripts ( those in good condition, and thought to be complete? I am not
> certain about this, but anyway apparently not paper MSS), and of which only
> a very small number of sets were produced, those inaccessible even to
> scholars in the PRC, much less abroad.
> **IF** someone now has actual access to these volumes ... well, I dare say
> it is not a big exaggeration to say that this signals a sea change, and I
> am far from alone in eagerly panting for access to these photos.
> Can you provide any more details?
> (In the plates you offered, on 1b-4b the volume itself is visible, and the
> color of the binding agrees with what I remember from seeing several years
> ago a CCTV segment on the publication of these volumes, so I would guess
> that your professor [I am quite eager to know who this is] seems to have
> held in his/her hands one at least of these very volumes.)
>
> Jonathan Silk
>
>
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京都大学文学研究科インド古典学専修博士課程
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Shihong Zhao, PhD Student
Department of Indological Studies
Graduate School of Letters
Kyoto University


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