The daily BBC World Service programme called ‘The Strand’ on 22nd June features the exhibition of Jain artefacts at the V&A. The curator of the display, Nick Barnard, talks about the exhibits in chapter 3.
You can listen to Nick at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0084t6r
The exhibition opened last month in the Nehru Gallery and is the first in a series of exhibitions at museums and galleries round the country.
Now that the Jainpedia project is gearing up to go live, we are looking to appoint a full-time project manager in the next few weeks. If you’re interested or you know someone who might be keen to apply, please read on. (more…)
Hello, my name is Colin Hynson and I am the Education Adviser on the JAINpedia project. I have been an education adviser to the Institute of Jainology for some years. As part of that role (more…)
As the museum consultant for JAINpedia, my main responsibilities are to ensure that an ongoing programme of related events is put together for the project. With this in mind, I have been busy working with the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) over the last few months to create an exciting series of activities for the Jainpedia display between 2010 and 2012. (more…)
The college is closing down tomorrow for the holidays so we won’t be around until January 2010.
However… (more…)
As a professor of Indian studies at the Sorbonne, my academic interests include not only Jainism but Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit, Theravada Buddhism, and Hindi languages and literature of the 20th century. Although I am fully involved with Jainpedia and have worked for some years with the Institute of Jainology and other institutions in the UK on Jain-related projects, my work in Jainism arose only towards the end of my undergraduate career. (more…)
I’m very pleased to report that a few weeks ago we received nearly all of the digital images of the manuscripts we requested from the Wellcome Library.
You will be able to start appreciating the beauty of these artefacts in these small photos.
A manuscript is made up of a number of folios. A folio is a sheet of paper or other material that has writing and sometimes an illustration on each side of the sheet. Each folio bears the handwriting of a scribe who used ink to write by hand. Many of the folios are also painted in full colour.
Kālakācāryakathā © Wellcome Library, London
For most of the manuscripts we’ll be displaying on the forthcoming full Jainpedia website, each page (one side of the sheet) has been photographed. Sometimes a manuscript will consist of only one or two folios, because of its age, its material or the conditions in which it was kept before being held in a professional curated environment. (more…)
Hello Readers! I am Rajiv Anand and I work as the museum/heritage consultant on the Jainpedia project. I have been involved since April 2009 and will see this part of the project through till April 2012.
I am glad to state that the project is going from strength to strength and developing further its professional links and contacts. It’s now a familiar brand with its major heritage partners, which are the V&A, British Library, Bodleian Library (University of Oxford) and Wellcome Library.
There will be a series of exhibitions and displays at these institutions, which house some of the most important Jain collections outside the Indian subcontinent. (more…)
We are now beginning to recruit people to support the outreach activity that will be part of JAINpedia.
On Saturday 3rd October 2009 we will be holding our first sign-up session at the JVB Sayer Centre in London. A training session will take place in the afternoon. Light refreshment will be provided.
The morning session will be an informal ‘find out more about the project’ session, where you will get the chance to ask questions and see how you can be involved. Anyone can go to this general session.
The afternoon session will be a formal INSET training session. It is only for those who want to get involved in the education part of the outreach programme.
Although the majority of the work will be delivered in 2010, we urgently need volunteers with the following skills as soon as possible:
If you would like to be a volunteer with JAINpedia then please get in touch now.
Spaces on the day are limited so to find out more information and register your interest, please email: chetna.kapacee@jainpedia.org or call 0208 997 2300.