I am pleased to announce that the Canadian government, through the SSHRC, has funded a new project focussed on the evolution of the text of the Suśrutasaṃhitā (SS).  The project is called "The Compendium of Suśruta in Time and Space: Mapping a Medical Tradition."

Information about the first SS project, 2020-2024, can be found here: http://sushrutaproject.org.  See especially the page on Project Outputs.

While the 2020 project focussed on establishing the text of the SS as it was in the ninth century, the new project has a different focus, and will examine the editorial campaign that pervasively altered the text in the centuries after 900 CE until it reached the "vulgate" version that we find in printed editions today.  It is a project on textual and medical history.

The website of the new project is still under development, but can already be consulted here: https://sushrutaproject2.github.io/website/  (shortcut http://sushrutaproject2.org).

I am grateful to the anonymous SSHRC project reviewers for giving the application high marks.  I am also grateful to the Project Collaborators, 

Angermeier, Vitus	University of Vienna
Koythodi Parameswaran, Madhu	Vaidyaratnam P. S. Varier Ayurveda College
Li, Charles	University of Hamburg
Maas, Philipp	Universität Leipzig
Zysk, Kenneth	University of Copenhagen

who supported the writing of the project application and will guide it over the next four years.

Best wishes,

Dominik Wujastyk

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