Tan Wang-Ward 王潭’s presentation titled ‘Locating the Lotus Sutra Manuscripts Digitisation Project’. This presentation was given on 16 December 2022 at the British Library conference 'The Lotus Sutra: The teachings, transmission and material culture of a sacred Buddhist text'.
Aiming to conserve and digitise nearly 800 Chinese manuscript copies of the Lotus Sutra from the Stein Collections at the British Library, the Lotus Sutra Manuscripts Digitisation Project is one of the largest project-based digitisation efforts under the International Dunhuang Project. The presentation seeks to reflect on the process of bringing together a multifunctional team to deliver this project. It considered the project’s significance and characteristics with recognition of the pioneering work laid out by the IDP since the 1990s, as well as the current trends in cultural heritage digitisation practices in the UK.
Organised to celebrate the successful close of the Lotus Sutra Project (2017 – 2022), the conference brought together an international group of scholars and the Project team to present on the impact of the Lotus Sutra as a critical Buddhist text. The conference investigated the teachings of the Lotus Sutra, the Lotus Sutra as represented at Dunhuang, and the methodology and results of the Lotus Sutra Project, which has now conserved, digitised and published nearly 800 Lotus Sutra manuscripts in the British Library’s collections. …...more
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