Building an Academic Destination: The ASU Repository of Palm Leaf Manuscripts from Sri Lanka
Seed Grant Semester Awarded
Fall
Seed Grant Award Year
2005
The IHR Seed grant will support interdisciplinary research on art and religion of Sri Lanka and bring international attention to ASU’s extensive holdings of Sinhalese palm-leaf manuscripts. A scholarly gathering will be held to plan future research and publication, training of scholars, academic conferences, preservation, exhibitions and public programs.
See their web page for details about the project and the October 2006 research conference at ASU.
Principal Investigator(s)
Juliane Schober, Religious Studies
Claudia Brown, Art History and Center for Asian Studies
Claudia Brown, Art History and Center for Asian Studies