* tmc * in patientia vestra habetis animam vestram * tmc *

Dear Reader,

The ASIAN STUDIES WWW MONITOR
(including all its subsidiary (and/or sister) pages on "coombs.anu.edu.au" server) has permanently ceased its publishing operations on Friday 21st January 2011.

All of the online resources reported here have been thoroughly checked at the time of their listing. However, it is possible that, with the with the passage of time, many of the originally reported materials might have been removed from the Internet, or changed their online address, or varied the scope and quality of their contents.

Fortunately, in several cases it is possible to access many of the older versions of the resources listed in the MONITOR. This can be easily done via the free services of the "The Internet Archive" http://web.archive.org/, a remarkable brainchild of Brewster Kahle, San Francisco, CA.

- with warm regards -

Editor, Dr T. Matthew Ciolek.

Canberra, 21 January 2011.


09 September 2009

Epigraphia Indica / Carnatica / Birmanica / Moslemica - free e-books

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=epigraphia

5star
01 Sep 2008

The Universal Library Project, The Internet Archive, San Francisco, CA, US

Supplied note:
"[...] I would like to suggest a report on www.archive.org This site [i.e. The Universal Library, with 31,382 items in early Sep 2009 - ed.] while heavily dominated by Western popular culture, but it also contains gems like an uploaded set of much of _Epigraphia Indica_ which seems to have been scanned and put up by Dr Z.A. Desai, a retired Director of the Archaeological Survey of India. - sg."

Site contents:
* Epigraphia Birmanica - Umya - Downloads: 167.
* Epigraphia Indica - Downloads: 1,821.
* Epigraphia Carnatica Vol 16 - Nilakanta Sastri - Downloads: 690.
* Epigraphia Indica Vol 5 - Desai, Z.A - Downloads: 1,356.
* Epigraphia Indica Vol 7 - Desai, Z.A - Downloads: 368.
* Epigraphia Indica Vol 9 - Dasia, Z.A [sic] - Downloads: 820.
* Epigraphia Indica Vol 10 - Dasia, Z.A [sic] - Downloads: 1,047.
* Epigraphia Indica Vol 11 - Dasia, Z.A [sic] - Downloads: 1,169.
* Epigraphia Indica Vol 13 - Dasia, Z.A [sic] - Downloads: 1,264.
* Epigraphia Indo - Moslemica - G.Yazdani - Downloads: 231.
* Epigraphia Carnatica Vol 3 - B. Lewis Rice - Downloads: 418.
* Epigraphia Indica Arbic [sic] And Persian Supplement 1973 - Desai, Z.A - Downloads: 215.
* Epigraphia Indica Arbic [sic] And Persian Supplement 1973 - Desai, Z.A - Downloads: 231.

URL http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=epigraphia

["About the Internet Archive - The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections."]

Internet Archive (www.archive.org) - as above.

Link reported by: Sumit Guha (sguha--at--history.rutgers.edu)

* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

Please note that the above details were correct on the day of their publication. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

08 September 2009

East Asian Library Resources Group of Australia (EALRGA)

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/NLA/EALRGA/index.html

5star
08 Sep 2009

East Asian Library Resources Group of Australia (EALRGA), Canberra, Australia.

Self-description:
"EALRGA East Asian Library Resources Group of Australia incorporating JALRGA the Japanese Library Resources Group of Australia [...] Since 2005 the EALRGA Newsletter [ISSN 1832-7648] is published on this web site on an open access basis. Back issues are available in hard copy. Please contact Ms Wan Wong, the EALRGA Treasurer, by email wwong--at--nla.gov.au concerning purchase of individual issues in print."

Site contents:
* EALRGA Committee; * Membership Information; * EALRGA Electronic Forum;
* EALRGA Newsletter current issue: No. 54 (July 2009)
# A message from the EALRGA Newsletter Editor by Bick-har Yeung. # Asian Treasures from Religious Collectors by Andrew Gosling. # Providing a Reference Service in Chinese Studies at Monash University Library by Dennis Kishere. # Online Anywhere in Australia: Using the NLA's Chinese e-Resources by Dipin Ouyang. # Online Chinese Yearbooks: A New Tool for Chinese Studies by Wayne Tian. # The Asian Languages Collection at Curtin University Library by David Wells. # Chinese Language Electronic Databases to which Australian Research Libraries Subscribe by Bick-har Yeung.
Conference Reports:
# A Report on the Library Panel at the JSAA biennial conference in Sydney, 13-16 July 2009 by Michelle Hall and Mayumi Shinozaki. # Conference Report: the Joint Conference of JSAA and ICJLE in Sydney, 13-17 July, 2009 by Ayako Hatta. # Conference Report: Library Session at the 6th Biennial Korean Studies Association of Australasia (KSAA) Conference by Jung Sim Kim. # 2009 Melbourne Conference on China: 60 Years of the People's Republic - Transformations and Challenges by Yangzi Sima.
Library News:
# News from the Asian Studies Research Collection Monash University Library by Aline Scott-Maxwell. # "J. M. (Jack) Braga (1897-1988), Macau, and the Braga Collection in the National Library of Australia" by Andrew Gosling. # A Message to EALRGA Members from Hana Kim by Hana Kim. # Brief news from East Asian Collection, University of Sydney Library by Nancy Li. # News from the East Asian Collection, the University of Melbourne Library by Bick-har Yeung. # Upcoming Conferences and Workshops.
* EALRGA Newsletter Archive (Previous Issues; No. 53 (Dec 2008), No. 52 (Dec 2007), No. 51 (July 2007), No. 50 (Dec 2006), No. 49 (June 2006), No. 48 (Dec 2005), No. 47 (June 2005), No. 46 (Jan 2004), No. 45 (May 2002), No. 44 (Nov 2001), No. 43 (May 2001), No. 42 (Oct 2000), No. 41 (May 2000), No. 40 (Nov 1999), No. 39 (May 1999), No. 38 (Nov 1998), No. 37 (July 1998), No. 36 (Mar 1998), No. 35 (Nov 1997), No. 34 (July 1997), No. 33 (Mar 1997), 1995 and 1996 newsletters);
* Links to Related Sites (Other library associations with an interest in East Asia, Useful sites, Asian Studies Associations, Related WWW Virtual Library Projects).

URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/NLA/EALRGA/index.html

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/NLA/EALRGA/index.html

Link reported by: Andrew Gosling (andrewgosling--at--netspeed.com.au)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate info./Study/Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Other
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

Please note that the above details were correct on the day of their publication. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

07 September 2009

The Berzin Archives The Buddhist Archives of Dr. Alexander Berzin

http://www.berzinarchives.com/web/en/index.html

5star
07 Sep 2009

www.berzinarchives.com, Berlin, Germany.

Self-description:
"The Berzin Archives is a collection of translations and teachings by Dr. Alexander Berzin [B.A. degree in 1965 from the Department of Oriental Studies, Rutgers University in conjunction with Princeton University; M.A. in 1967 and Ph.D. in 1972 from the Departments of Far Eastern Languages (Chinese) and Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University. - ed.] primarily on the Mahayana and Vajrayana traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. Covering the areas of sutra, tantra, Kalachakra, dzogchen, and mahamudra meditation, the Archives presents material from all five Tibetan traditions: Nyingma, Sakya, Kagyu, Gelug, and Bon, as well as comparisons with Theravada Buddhism and Islam. Also featured are Tibetan astrology and medicine, Shambhala, and Buddhist history."

Site contents:
* Approaching Buddhism (Spiritual Teachers, Introduction to Buddhism, Buddhism in the World Today, Modern Adaptation of Buddhism);
* Fundamentals of Tibetan Buddhism (Level 1: Getting Started, Level 2: Lam-rim (Graded Stage) Material, Level 3: Lojong (Mind Training) Material, Level 4: Deepening the Understanding of the Path, Level 5: Analysis of the Mind and Reality, Level 6: Major Indian Mahayana Texts);
* Advanced Meditation (Tantra Teachings, Kalachakra, Dzogchen, Mahamudra);
* Daily Practice (Vows and Commitments, Prayers and Tantra Practices);
* Historical, Cultural, and Comparative Studies, (History of Buddhism and Bon Comparison of Buddhist Traditions, Buddhism and Islam, Asian Non-Buddhist Traditions, Tibetan Astrology and Medicine);
* eBooks (Published Books, Unpublished Manuscripts, Bibliographies);
* Audio (Weekly Courses, Approaching Buddhism, Fundamentals of Tibetan Buddhism, Advanced Meditation, Daily Practice, Historical, Cultural, and Comparative Studies);
* Author (Short Biography of Alexander Berzin, Becoming Involved with Buddhism, Published Works of Dr. Berzin, Dr. Berzin's Teaching Schedule);
* About Us (Message from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Message from Ling Rinpoche, Message from Tsenzhab Serkong Tulku, About the Berzin Archives, Berzin Archives Team, Acknowledgments, Accessibility);
* News (New Material, Work in Progress, Dr. Berzin's Teaching Schedule);
* Help Us (Appeal for Support, Donations, Urgent Needs, Practical Help, Remaining Work);
* Glossary (Glossary English Terms, Glossary Tibetan Terms, Glossary Mahamudra Tibetan Terms, Glossary Astro Tibetan Terms);
* Miscellaneous
* Search.

[A site in English. Also available in German, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese and Russian - ed.]

URL http://www.berzinarchives.com/web/en/index.html

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.berzinarchives.com/web/en/index.html

Link reported by: T Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study/Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Other
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 3,000

Please note that the above details were correct on the day of their publication. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

04 September 2009

Transoxiana: Journal Libre de Estudios Orientales - Issue Aug 2009

http://www.transoxiana.org

4star
04 Sep 2008

www.transoxiana.org, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Supplied note: "Transoxiana 14 - Agosto 2009
* Editorial - Paola Raffetta
* Memorias del Periodo Colonial en Memorias Perdidas 2009 y Hanbando - Maria del Pilar alvarez (IIGG, UBA, Buenos Aires)
* Iranian Elements in Kasmir and Tibet: Sasanian and Sogdian Borrowings in Kashmiri and Tibetan Art - Matteo Compareti (Venezia)
* Dioses, Heroes y Chamanes Eelida Herrera (Buenos Aires)
* Cazadores, Guerreros y Soldados: Los paradigmas miticos detras de una guerra - Ana Silvia Karacic (USAL, Buenos Aires)
* Paulo sob investigacao: A historia da pesquisa e as questoes atuais - Brian Gordon Lutalo Drumond Kibuuka (Wittenberg)
* Augustos y Soberanos: Ideal de Sociedad y Civilizacion en la China Arcaica - Julio Lopez Saco (UCV, Caracas)
* Tongwancheng, the city of Southern Huns - Borbala Obrusanszky (Research Group on Hungarian Ancestral History)
* On the Origin of One Dynasty of the Ancient Chach - Erbulat A. Smagulov (Almaty), Sergey V. Demidenko (Moscu), Aisulu A. Erzhigitova (Shymkent).
* Early Turks: Male Costume in the Chinese Art Second half of the 6th - first half of the 8th cc. (Images of 'Others') - Sergey A. Yatsenko (Moscu)
Discusion
* Some Notes on Ancient and Medieval History of Chach - Shamsiddin Kamoliddin (Tashkent)
Resenas de libros
* Doi, Mary Masayo. Gesture, Gender, Nation: Dance and Social Change in Uzbekistan. - Por Matthew J. Forss (Goddard College, Plainfield, VT)
* Marcelo Gullo. Revista de libros: "La insubordinacion fundante. Breve historia de la construccion del poder de las naciones". - Por Mariela Szirko (Buenos Aires) - pr."

Site contents:
* Current Issue; * Past Issues; * Reviews; * Permanent Call for Papers; * Webfestschrift Series 2004 - Webfestschrift Scarcia: L'Onagro Maestro Miscellanea di fuochi accesi per Gianroberto Scarcia in occasione del suo LXX sade - P. Raffetta, Ed., 2003 - Webfestschrift Marshak: Eran ud Aneran Studies presented to Boris Ilich Marshak on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday - Compareti, Raffetta, Scarcia, Eds.); * Links (Sources, E-Journals, E-Libraries, E-Texts, Casas de Estudio, Eurasia y Asia Central, India, Iran, Antiguedad, Zoroastrismo, Anatolia, Egipto, Revistas electronicas sobre Egipto Varios); * RSS feed [www.transoxiana.org/rss-feed.xml]

['Transoxiana: Journal Libre de Estudios Orientales' is a free e-journal in English, Spanish, and Russian (est. 2000, ISSN 1666-7050) published in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Contact 'Transoxiana' by email at editor--at--transoxiana.org - ed.]

URL http://www.transoxiana.org

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.transoxiana.org

Link reported by: Paola Raffetta (editor--at--transoxiana.org)

* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 3,000 [in fact: 1,440]

Please note that the above details were correct on the day of their publication. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com