Manuscripts and the Movement of Ideas across Asia

An exhibition of select manuscripts from SAMHiTA: South Asian Manuscripts Histories and Textual Archives and other digital libraries that show how texts from India travelled to Central, West and East Asia, starting with the 2,000-year-old birch-bark scrolls of Mahayana Buddhism that were discovered in Afghanistan in the 1990s. Translations and illustrated manuscripts reveal the creative interchange between languages, between disciplines like lexicography and poetry, and between painter and scribe

Inauguration by Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC on 17 October 2024 at 4 pm

(Organised by the IIC-International Research Division)