A month ago Decadi Publishers Ltd Oy (Helsinki, Finland)
started distribution of the first issue of the CD-ROM Series
“Asiatic Museum. Treasures from St. Petersburg Academic
Collection of Oriental Manuscripts” attached to the journal
Manuscripta Orientalia. Within the frames of this series the
publication of the “Secret Visionary Autobiography” of the
Fifth Dalai Lama Ngag-dbang blo-bzang rgya-mtsho
( 1617–1682) was prepared by Dr Vladimir Uspensky. It
provides a great deal of new information indispensable for
students of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism. The first judgments
proves that the new publication of this outstanding
specimen of Tibetan spirituality was met with interest by
our colleagues.
The second CD-ROM publication is expected to contain
a three-volume manuscript of the Arabic Bible, which
is of great importance both from the textological and codicological
points of view. The manuscript (D 226) is preserved
in the collection of the St. Petersburg Branch of the
Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences.
It pretends to be the earliest and, at the same time, the
fullest collection of Biblical texts written in Arabic...
25 марта 2024 г. в ИВР РАН пройдет конференция «Актуальные проблемы буддологических и индологических исследований–16». Предлагаем вашему вниманию программу.
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