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03
Aug
For the last three months, our roving BRC Manuscript Mission team has been visiting libraries in the Howrah District. Although located to the West of the Kolkata area, some of the locations require travel of more than three hours. Often these locations are far off the beaten path with little ...
11
Apr
On Feb 18, 2016 BRC was blessed by a generous donation of a special collection of 40 rare manuscripts from the Sri M K Goswami family, who are directly descended from Sri Advaitacarya (17th generation.) Originally from Shantipur, they currently reside in Bangalore.
This donation of very precious and rare ...
19
Sep
BRC recently digitized several never- before- seen letters that were personally written by Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur to Mahendra Nath Datta. BRC Bengali Section Librarian, Bharati Roy Mataji has translated them into English for the first time.
31
Mar
BRC began our latest chapter on the manuscript mission at the start of December 2014. The project at Navadwip Public Library has finally been activated after years of negotiations. Formerly known as Edward VII Anglo Sanskrit Library, it was established in 1907. Navadwip Sadharan Granthnagar Public Library has one of ...
30
Sep
On June 30th 2014, the BRC celebrated its fifth anniversary. The project has developed substantially since it’s inception and we first want to thank all those supporters over the years who have made this possible. With all your blessings we hope to offer our services for many generations to ...
26
Aug
On the 175th birth anniversary of the founder of modern day Gaudiya Vaisnavism, Srila Saccidananda Bhaktivinoda Thakura, the BRC is very pleased to announce a major development from Birnagar, his birthplace — the scanning and preservation of their entire literary collection.
25
Mar
In our last newsletter we reported the acquisition of the Bookeye 4, a professional, high resolution scanner. Since its arrival in August we have been busy scanning beginning with the more delicate works, in particular the 31 bound volumes of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati's daily newspaper Nadia Prakash.
30
Jul
Welcome to the BRC newsletter. Another exciting report on developments at the BRC for the first half of 2012. Since our last communiqué we have acquired some very important equipment. Our chief goal this year was to obtain a professional, high resolution scanner.
17
Dec
Welcome to a double issue of the BRC newsletter. Please accept our apologies for the omission of issue #4 (July-Sept 2011). Due to health and other diversions it was not published. We have exciting contents in this issue, kicking off with:
18
Jun
...continued in April with a second foray into the mathas and libraries of West Bengal. All told our intrepid team of Smt. Bharati Roy and photographer Ashish visited another eight repositories and photographed a further 81 manuscripts, making a total of 200+ so far.
28
Mar
Welcome to the second BRC quarterly newsletter. It marks an exciting new phase of our program the search for ancient manuscripts and rare books, particularly on Gaudiya Vaisnavism. It has been our ambition from the BRC's inception to go out in the field an
07
Feb
An important day on our BRC calendar. Today we started our manuscript search and record program. With generous donations from Shrutadeva prabhu in San Diego, Nrsimhadeva prabhu from Murwillumbah Australia, and Bhakta Vinoda Kumar from Dubai we purchased this week a Canon Powershot G12 semi-professional camera with various accessories such ...
25
Jan
On January 22 we had a brief but I hope ultimately fruitful visit at the library from three family members of a now deceased prominent member of the West Bengal government Sri Tarun Kanti Ghosh.
14
Dec
Welcome to the first quarterly newsletter of the Bhaktivedanta Research Centre. In this edition we cover October through December 2010, our first year in operation.
At the outset, we are very pleased to recognize His Grace Akrura dasa, temple president of ISKCON Vancouver, who became ...
30
Aug
The BRC just passed its first year of operations and an annual report has been published for the pleasure of the devotees.
A postcard sent by the daughter of Srila Bhaktivinoda ...
