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Proposal to Encode the Siddham Script in ISO/IEC 10646 Anshuman Pandey
7 Acknowledgments
I am thankful to Lee Collins (Apple Computer, Inc.) for reviewing drafts of this proposal, for offering background
and usage information on Siddham, and for providing samples of Korean Siddham, as well as the
‘Tenchiji’ font used here. Equally important are the contributions of Eijun Eidson of the Shingon Buddhist
International Institute, who is headmaster of the Koyasan Shingon Temple of North America. I am grateful
to Shriramana Sharma for offering corrections on technical matters regarding the representation of virama
and alternate forms of vowel signs; also to Vinodh Rajan for identifying the use of nukta in ‘modern’
Siddham. I am indebted to Micah Auerback (Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor) and Wang Xiyue (王夕越) for patiently answering my questions about Japanese and Chinese sources,
respectively, and for providing insight into texts through their own expert translations. Stefan Baums (University
of California, Berkeley), Andrew Glass (Microsoft), Kengo Harimoto (Nepal-German Manuscript
Cataloguing Project), Vinodh Rajan, Shriramana Sharma, and Iain Sinclair (Monash University) provided
comments on the name for the script block.
This project was made possible in part by a grant from the United States National Endowment for the Humanities,
which funded the Universal Scripts Project (part of the Script Encoding Initiative at the University of
California, Berkeley). Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication
do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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