We are excited to announce that the first Jainpedia exhibition will open on Friday 14th May at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. (more…)
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V&A curator talk on 20 May 2010
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010First images!
Thursday, October 8th, 2009I’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.
Manuscripts
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…)
Jainpedia as a learning tool
Thursday, August 13th, 2009As a new member of the team, I am very pleased to be part of the Jainpedia project. It’s been just two weeks since I joined the team, and as a Technical Developer, I will be taking care of the front-end development of the Jainpedia website.
I am very excited about helping to get this amazing project up and running, and I am looking forward to contributing to the creation of this website.
Before coming to work at CCH I didn’t know much about Jainism. I am looking forward to finding out more about this ancient religion and increasing my knowledge of it.
I believe that Jainpedia will become a powerful tool for finding resources and helping people to learn about Jainisim.
One of the main features of the Jainpedia website is that it will be accessible to all members of the public, and everybody will have an opportunity to be able to learn more about it.
I know that putting this content online will be tremendously valuable as it will help the preservation of the Jain cultural content (manuscripts, digital artefacts and so on) so they won’t be lost to future generations.
I am looking forward to begin this challenging and exciting journey and I will be sharing with you the stages of the development of the Jainpedia website.
Watch this space!