[INDOLOGY] NGMCP

Fri Aug 8 15:10:25 UTC 2025

Following up, thank you so much to Tyler and Dominik for showing how to
make the database navigable again. I was in a panic when the wiki began to
404.

A question I have that I hope those who showed how to make the database
available again is: is there a way to search for words that appear in the
entry, but not the title? For example, if I want to see what colophons have
the word "bhikṣunī", on the original wiki I could search the word and
all mss with the searched term in their catalog entry would populate in the
search results. I cannot figure out if this is now possible. This (
https://catalogue.ngmcp.uni-hamburg.de/content/search/ngmcpdocument.xed)
seems the most promising place to do so, but I have not had any luck in my
attempts so far.

Thank you again for making the database available!
Sam

On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 4:34 AM Jonathan Silk via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> confirmed! Thank you Tim! (glad there is a philologist here, and it's
> obviously not me!)
>
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 10:31 AM Lubin, Tim <lubint at wlu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Jonathan, No institutional lapse this time — just delete the spurious
>> “kindly” that was accidently added to the end of the URL!
>>
>>
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From: *INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> on behalf of
>> INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
>> *Reply-To: *Jonathan Silk <kauzeya at gmail.com>
>> *Date: *Friday, July 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
>> *To: *"Michaels, Prof. Dr. Axel" <michaels at hcts.uni-heidelberg.de>
>> *Cc: *INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
>> *Subject: *Re: [INDOLOGY] NGMCP
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear Axel
>>
>> Perhaps there is a message here, echoing concerns expressed on this list
>> in the last 24 hours: when I try the link you provide to the Academy, I get
>> only
>> Page not found
>>
>> The requested page could not be found.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM Michaels, Prof. Dr. Axel via INDOLOGY <
>> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>
>> Just to complement Dominik’s list:
>>
>>
>>
>> There is an almost comprehensive catalogue of c. 100.000 Nepalese
>> documents photographed by the NGMPP and sustainably maintained by the
>> Heidelberg Academy of sciences and Humanities:
>> https://nepalica.hadw-bw.de/nepal/catitems/index/0?page=4. The project
>> cataloguing these data will last until October 2028. It will then have
>> covered all metadata. For more information including access to the scans,
>> see
>> https://www.hadw-bw.de/en/research/research-center/documents-history-religion-and-law-pre-modern-nepalkindly
>> or contact nepal[at]hadw-bw.de <nepal at hadw-bw.de>.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Axel / Michaels
>>
>>
>>
>> *From: *INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> on behalf of "
>> indology at list.indology.info" <indology at list.indology.info>
>> *Reply to: *Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com>
>> *Date: *Friday, 18. July 2025 at 00:33
>> *To: *Tyler Neill <tyler.g.neill at gmail.com>
>> *Cc: *"indology at list.indology.info" <indology at list.indology.info>
>> *Subject: *Re: [INDOLOGY] NGMCP
>>
>>
>>
>> I would like to thank Tyler Neill and Claudius Teodorescu for discussions
>> about how to save and make available the data of the NGMCP Wiki.  My
>> original panic about this has subsided now, since Hamburg yesterday put a
>> simplified version of the data online again.
>>
>>
>>
>> Tyler has already explained matters clearly.  In future you can consult
>> this data at either of the following sites:
>>
>>    - https://www-archiv.fdm.uni-hamburg.de/ngmcp/index.html
>>    - https://tylergneill.github.io/ngmcp-wiki-mirror
>>
>> This data provides descriptive information on nearly 16,000 manuscripts.
>>
>>
>>
>> A much simpler, searchable index of these *and many more *manuscripts is
>> still available at Hamburg under the titles "Online Title List" and "Indic
>> Manuscripts".  I think there are 117,406 manuscripts in this index:
>>
>>    -
>>    https://catalogue.ngmcp.uni-hamburg.de/content/search/ngmcpdocument.xed
>>
>> And the Nepalese National Archives themselves provide a searchable
>> index.  I don't know if it is based on the same data as the Hamburg "Online
>> title list", but I think that is likely.  The NAK index says it has data on
>> 114,552 manuscripts:
>>
>>    -   http://narchives.gov.np/List.aspx
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Dominik
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
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>>
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> Professor in the study of Buddhism
> Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, LIAS
> Herta Mohr building 2.142
> Witte Singel 27A
> 2311 BG Leiden
> The Netherlands
>
> Guest Professor, PI of ERC-Project BEST
> Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
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> Deutschland
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