Month: April 2021

In one of the Nepalese manuscripts on which this project is based, the fifteenth-century Nepalese MS,  MS Kathmandu NAK 5-333, there are mysterious characters at a few places. For example, on folio 371v: they are the two similar characters on the fifth line from the top, in this enlargement: and another example Here, the surrounding…

by Birgit Kellner (Austrian Academy of Sciences) This document is kindly contributed by Birgit Kellner, who composed it on 13 November 2017, with input from: Patrick McAllister, Yasutaka Muroya, Markus Pastollnigg, Cristina Pecchia, Serena Saccone, Ernst Steinkellner, and Toshikazu Watanabe. On Dharmottarapradīpa ms fol. 3a (Tucci photographs 1939/Ngor monastery; earlier photographs taken by Sāṅkṛtyāyana probably…