Panel 3 Discussion: Preserving the Lotus Sutra at the British Library: From Physical to Digital

The discussion for Panel 3: Preserving the Lotus Sutra at the British Library: From Physical to Digital, featuring Tania Estrada-Valadez, Marie Kaladgew, Paulina Kralka, Maria Muzart, Isabelle Reynolds-Logue and Tan Wang-Ward 王潭. This discussion was chaired by Mélodie Doumy and was held on 16 December 2022 at the British Library's conference 'The Lotus Sutra: The teachings, transmission and material culture of a sacred Buddhist text'.
Organised to celebrate the successful close of the Lotus Sutra Project (2017 - 2022), the conference brought together an international group of scholars and the Project team to present on the impact of the Lotus Sutra as a critical Buddhist text. The conference investigated the teachings of the Lotus Sutra, the Lotus Sutra as represented at Dunhuang, and the methodology and results of the Lotus Sutra Project, which has now conserved, digitised and published nearly 800 Lotus Sutra manuscripts in the British Library’s collections.