In the months of October and November, the Centre for Studies on South and South-east Asia at L'Orientale hosted a series of lectures on Buddhism by Vincent Eltschinger, professor for Indian Buddhism at École Pratique des Hautes Études, PSL Research University, Paris
More Śivadharma readings and talks took place at the University of Chicago in the week of October 23rd-27th. Wednesday Oct 25: seminar presentation by Florinda De Simini, “Who are the Śivayogins? An answer from early Śaiva sources.” Steven Collins Memorial Seminar Room (Foster 103), 5:00-6:30 PMThursday Oct. 26: research presentation by…
As part of the South Asia Conference that took place at the University of Madison, Wisconsin, the Śivadharma Project presented an Italian-American panel this year, that digged deeper into the southern transmission of our texts. The Panel title was "(Re)Structuring Śaivism: The Śivadharma and its Tamil Transmission"
Daniela Cappello visited the Asiatic Society and other archives to research manuscripts of Bengali Purāṇa (and of the Śivopaniṣad) as part of her research for the Śivadharma Project. She also visited the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad, the society for the study of Bengali language and literature. From both institutions, she managed…
Talks by Csaba Deszö at UniOr (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) Csaba Dezső is a regular visiting professor at L'Orientale University of Naples in the frame of the Dharma Project.Prof. Csaba Dezső, visiting professor at L'Orientale University of Naples in the framework of the ERC-funded Dharma Project, will lead reading sessions…
Seminar on Bengali Language and Culture at UniOr Our research fellow Daniela Cappello run a seminar on Bengali language and culture for students of L'Orientale during the month of May 2023. It is the first time that a seminar on Bengali is offered at an academic institution in Naples. The seminar…
From 25 to 31 January 2023, I, Kengo Harimoto, visited the Oriental Research Institute and Manuscript Library, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. We have known and have been reading some Śivadharma manuscripts written in the Malayalam script that is used in Kerala. The National Mission for Manuscripts’ online catalogues list…
In January 2023, I travelled to Odisha to explore the links between the representation of Lakulīśa and the Buddha as teachers. The overlap in iconography between these two images suggests that the image of the teaching Buddha was used as a model for the image of Lakulīśa as a teacher.…
Reading Śivadharmottara 12 with Yuko Yokochi A bull attending Tenjin (天神・天満大自在天神) in Kyoto, Japan; a possible Śaivism link in Japan On 12 and 13 December 2022, we held a workshop at L’Orientale, Naples, dedicated to reading the final chapter, chapter 12, of the Śivadharmottara. We used an edition prepared by…
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,…