2017 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Overlapping cosmologies of premodern Asia（国際共同研究強化）
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15KK0050
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
MAK BILL (麥文彪) 京都大学, 白眉センター, 特定准教授 (50747863)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2016 – 2018
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| Keywords | 科学史 / 宇宙科学 / 文化交流史 |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
i) Previous collaboration with New York University and the joint-organization of the "Cosmos, East and West" conference (Feb 27, 2017) served as the preparation for the Kyoto University International Symposium in Kyoto (ICTSA 2017, Oct 25-28). http://wdc2.kugi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ictsa2017/
ii) A database was created based on the archival work at Brown University and American Philosophical Society. This includes entries not reported in previous inventory. A feasibility study concerning further possibilities of digitalization of Pingree's CESS was produced, in discussion with Brown University and a team of international collaborators.
iii) First report from the collaborative Gargasamhitaa workgroup was published in the peer-reviewed journal "History of Science in South Asia" 5.1. Members included Bill Mak (PI), Yano Michio (Kyoto Sangyo), Kenneth Zysk (Copenhagen), Marko Geslani (Emory). The report provides the most updated review on the research done on this text, considered one of the oldest extant astral texts in Sanskrit (c. first century CE).
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
The overseas network created in FY2017 further solidified leading to the successful organization of the international conference in Japan (ICTSA 2017). The digital database based on Pingree's CESS has been a grand desideratum among scholars since the 1990s. The feasibility study was an important step to determine what the future holds for this project and what resources are required.
The edition of the Garga manuscripts moved forward as a result of the successful creation of the workgroup in the US.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Further digitalization of Pingree's CESS will be undertaken by Brown University and its library staff as a special collection project, with the PI's continual support.
Further research results on the Garga mauscripts are anticipated in the upcoming years, including at the World Sanskrit Conference in Vancouver, Canada (2018). The remaining funding from this grant will be used for the organization of and participation in the special Garga panel at the World Sanskrit Conference.
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