The Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project (NGMPP) was founded in 1970 under an agreement between His Majesty's Government of Nepal and the German Oriental Society, and was financed by the German Research Council. The Project was established to preserve Nepal's extraordinary wealth of old manuscripts, blockprints and historical documents on microfilm. The text material encompasses the various branches of Hindu and Buddhist literature, and is thus of significance far beyond the boundaries of Nepal. The program came to an end in 2002 and have now made available by mail-order microfiche copies of texts that they documented in Nepal.