GRANTS

The project has been made possible thanks to funds raised by Professor Yumi Ousaka, who supervised Dr Sunao Kasamatsu to get several funds. The following generous grants have made it possible to make good progress (Dr W. Pruitt (PTS)):

  1. Theravāda Studies assisted by ICT and data release on web
    The KDDI Foundation (Apr. 2013 - Mar. 2015)
  2. Field work report on the manuscripts of South Asian Buddhism in Myanmar
    Research Grants in the Humanities, The Mitsubishi Foundation (Oct. 2013- Sep. 2015)
  3. Field work and research on palm-leaf manuscripts in Pāli and parabaik (folding paper) manuscripts in Myanmar,
    A grant-in-aid for challenging exploratory research from JSPS Kakenhi (Apr. 2013 - Mar. 2015, No. 25580010).
  4. CT-aided fieldwork and research for Burmese manuscripts and database construction
    Research Grants for Advanced Studies in Humanities, KOSEN (National Institute of Technology, Japan) (Apr. 2015 - Mar. 2016).
  5. ICT-aided fieldwork and research for old manuscripts of South Asian Buddhism in Myanmar and database construction
    A grant-in-aid for scientific research (B) from JSPS Kakenhi (Apr. 2016 - Mar. 2019, No. 16H03353). (15.04.2016)
  6. Dr Y. Nishi of CARI was very helpful in obtaining the funding: Chuo Academic Research Institute (CARI) of Rissho Kosei-kai (2017) (Head Investigator: Dr William Pruitt of the PTS. Associate Director Dr Yasutomo)
  7. The project is also supported by the Pali Text Society. The photographs and scans will all be the property of the Pali Text Society. Further help comes from the University of Toronto, Canada, where Dr Christoph Emmrich has set up a Web site where full sets of photos in PDF format will be made available online. PDFs with full sets of the photos of the manuscripts have been prepared by Professor Ousaka assisted by me. This has made it possible to prepare a new catalogue of the collection which will be printed by the Pali Text Society. (Dr W. Pruitt (PTS))

Research Travels in Myanmar (- Dec. 2019) (NEW 30.2019!!)

See videos in HP of PTS about data collection 
( A Short Introduction to the Project "Digitizing Manuscripts in Myanmar" &
An Introduction to the Project "Digitizing Manuscripts in Myanmar": )

  1. Data collection at Shwedagan Pagoda, Yangon and Thar-Lay Monastery, Shan State (Feb. 2013 - Mar. 2013)
    W Pruitt (one month), Y. Kawasaki (about 2 weeks) and S. Kasamatsu (about 2 weeks)
    JSPS Kakenhi, (Aleix Falques (about 2 weeks) )
  2. Data collection at Saddhammajotika monastery,  Thaton (Aug. 2013 - Sep. 2013)
    W Pruitt (one month), S. Kasamatsu (about 2 weeks) and Y. Kawasaki (about 2 weeks)
    JSPS Kakenhi
  3. Data collection at Saddhammajotika monastery,  Thaton (Feb. 2014 - Mar. 2014)
    W Pruitt (one month), S. Kasamatsu (about 2 weeks) and A. Falques (about 2 weeks)
    KDDI Grant
  4. Data collection at Saddhammajotika monastery,  Thaton (Aug. 2014 - Sep. 2014)
    W Pruitt (one month) and S. Kasamatsu (about 2 weeks)
    KDDI Grant
  5. Data collection at Saddhammajotika monastery, Thaton (Dec. 2014 - Jan. 2015)
    W Pruitt (one month) and S. Kasamatsu (about 2  weeks)
    JSPS Kakenhi
  6. Data collection at Saddhammajotika monastery,  Thaton (Feb. 2015 - Mar. 2015)
    W Pruitt (one month) and S. Kasamatsu (about 2 weeks)
    Mitsubishi Grant
  7. Data collection at Saddhammajotika monastery,  Thaton (Nov. 2015 - Dec. 2015)
    W Pruitt (two month) by JSPS Kakenhiand, and
    S. Kasamatsu (about 2 weeks) by Research Grants from KOSEN
  8. Data collection at Saddhammajotika monastery,  Thaton (Aug. 2016 - Sep. 2016)
    W Pruitt (one month) and S. Kasamatsu (about 2 weeks),
    JSPS Kakenhi
  9. Data collection at some monasteries (Jan. 2017 - Feb. 2017)
    W Pruitt (one month) 
    CARI/RKK Fund
  10. Data collection at some monasteries (Sep. 2017 - Oct. 2017)
    W Pruitt (two month) by CARI/RKK Fund and,
    S. Kasamatsu (about 2 weeks) by JSPS Kakenhi
  11. Data collection at some monasteries,  Mandalay etc. (Feb. 2018 - Mar. 2018)
    W Pruitt (one month) 
    CARI/RKK Fund
  12. Data collection at National Library at Nay Pyi Taw, and also at the Central Library of the Yangon University. (Oct. 2018 - Dec. 2018)
    W Pruitt (two months), Y Ousaka (about 10 days) by JSPS Kakenhi
  13. Data collection at Myanmar monasteries, W Pruitt (Oct. 2019 - Dec. 2019)
  14. Supporting creation of digitizing palm-leaf manuscripts and parabaiks in Myanmar monasteries at National Library at Nay Pyi Taw, Y Ousaka and W Pruitt (12.11.2019-16.11.2019)