On October 13th and 14th, L’Orientale University in Naples hosted the conference “Śaiva-Buddhist Encounters in Early Medieval East India” The two-day conference well fitted into the scheme of the SAHA Project. It welcomed art historians and archeologists, a curatorial associate, and Indologists working on various aspects of East India,…
We had a workshop in Tokyo on 6–7 August 2022. We discussed identification of places that foreign travellers to South Asia between the 6th and 11th century mentioned as having strong Śaiva presence.
On April 27th and 28th, the University L'Orientale of Naples hosted the conference "Studies on Dharma in the Himalayan Region". We welcomed many scholars and professors from a variety of disciplines, such as philology, jurisprudence, anthropology, and history of South Asia. The aim of the conference was to discuss and…
Two members of our ShivaDharma group, Csaba Kiss and Florinda de Simini, were at Humboldt University in Berlin this week to join the workshop of the ERC DHARMA Project. The workshop "Institutionalised Religion and Asceticism in South and Southeast Asia in the Pre-Modern Period" welcomed many scholars of South and…
As part of the Southern Asia Seminar of the University of Chicago, our PI Florinda de Simini delivered the talk “Gifts of Dharma: Shaping śaiva Communities Between Tradition and Innovation”. In her talk, she focused on the rules regulating the relationships between the lay and the monastic communities of the…
We at the Shivadharma Project are very proud to announce the publication of the first volume of our new, fully open access, Indological monograph series based at the University of Naples! ‘A Śaiva Utopia’ by Peter Bisschop, Nirajan Kafle and Tim Lubin (UniorPress 2021) is a very auspicious start for…
The Shivadharma group has opened the New Year with a full immersion in the “Old Text about the Future” (Bhaviṣyapurāṇa)! Our guest for this workshop was prof. Peter Bisschop from Leiden University, who guided us in the reading of the text during the last week of January. During our reading,…