Workshop in Tokyo
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.
Conference “Studies on Dharma in the Himalayan Region” in Naples
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…
ERC-DHARMA Workshop at Humbold University in Berlin
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…
“Gifts of Dharma”: A Lecture by Florinda de Simini at the University of Chicago
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…
“A Śaiva Utopia”: First Publication in our Series Studies on the History of Śaivism
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…
Reading the “Old Text about the Future” (Bhaviṣyapurāṇa) with Peter Bisschop
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,…
The Jewel of Śiva’s Deeds: Reading the Haracaritacintāmaṇi with Judit Torzsok
As part of our reading workshops, starting from October 18th, 2021, the Śivadharma project hosted prof. Judit Törzsök for three weeks in Naples to read together her edition-in-progress of the Haracaritacintāmaṇi.Judit Törzsök teaches Sanskrit and Indian Religions at EPHE (École Pratique des Hautes Études) in Paris, where she studies the…
Kengo Harimoto’s archival research at the LMU
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…
Philology and Digital Humanities in Naples
On October 1st, in the stunning location of Naples’ seafront promenade at Palazzo du Mesnil, L’Orientale University hosted the conference “Moving Texts: Filologie e Digital Humanities”. Organized by the department of Italian studies, the conference sought to offer an interdisciplinary platform to debate new methods of research in the field…
Florinda and Lucas travel to Lausanne!
In the picture, from left to right: Florinda De Simini, Coline Lefrancq, and Lucas den Boer On October 7th–8th, 2021, Florinda De Simini and Lucas den Boer participated in the Regional History of South Asia workshop, organised at the University of Lausanne. Here, along with members of the Dharma Project,…