Following a tip from Gudrun Melzer of Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität München, on 16–18 November 2021 Kengo Harimoto visited the Institute to examine a palm-leaf manuscript reportedly of the Nepalese Śivadharma Corpus kept there. Upon examination, it was revealed that the manuscript could be one of the oldest…
Csaba's Field Trip in Kathmandu From 9 Feb to 21 Feb 2020, Csaba Kiss was carrying out research in Kathmandu, Nepal. His plan was to obtain digital copies of manuscripts of the Nityāhnikatilaka, a post-10th-century ritual manual of the Śaiva tantric tradition of the goddess Kubjikā and her…
This blog-post is about Alessandro's field trip to Kerala and Karnataka (Feb-Mar 2020)
From February 11th till February 16th, Florinda, along with Śivadharma Project friends Giulia Buriola and Kristen de Joseph, carried out research at two of the most important manuscript archives in Chennai: the Research Centre of the Adyar research library, and the Government Oriental Manuscript Library. The Adyar Library and Research…
This blog-post is about Kenji Takahashi's field triep to Kathmandu, in February 2020.
This blog-post provides info on the "Networks of Temples and Networks of Texts in South India" workshop, which took place in Pondicherry in February 2020 and was organized by Ute Hüsken and Jonas Buchholz, both of the University of Heidelberg, in the framework of their DFG-funded project “Temple Networks in Early Modern South India.”
From December 20th till January 5th, our Śivadharmin Nirajan Kafle traveled to Kathmandu to conduct archival research at the National Archives. This library is home to the most important collection of manuscripts of the Śivadharma Corpus, comprising both the earliest specimens and the most recent ones. To date, we do…