On October 3rd–5th, the Śivadharma and Dharma Project team members at L'Orientale University of Naples, along with our JSPS-sponsored fellow Kenji Takahashi, participated in the Conference of the Associazione Italiana di Studi Sanscriti with a special panel titled Śivadharmajñānakośa: The Śivadharma and Dharma Projects. The conference was hosted by the…
Entrance to the Humboldt Universität, seat of Luisenstrasse 56 From September 16 to 21, the Humboldt Universität in Berlin hosted the Kick-off meeting of the ERC-Synergy Grant Project "DHARMA", that sees the University of Naples "L'Orientale" involved as a partner institution. This workshop was an opportunity to gather several members…
We are glad to announce that, on September 30th-October 2nd, team members from the host institution and the two partner institutions will gather in Naples, along with members of the advisory board of the project and external collaborators, in order to hold the first Śivadharma Workshop. This will be an…
In the framework of the Śivadharma and Dharma Projects we held several group readings of Sanskrit and Tamil texts at the École française d’Extrême Orient, Pondicherry Centre, from July 22nd to July 31st. On this occasion, a group of scholars active on the two projects as well as others who…
On July 26th, on the occasion of Florinda De Simini's visit to the Pondicherry centre of the EFEO, partner institution of the Śivadharma Project, we took the opportunity to celebrate the launch of the project together with the local team members. In the picture above, from left to right: R. Sathyanarayanan,…
On June 25th the first general assembly of the ERC-Synergy Project Dharma took place at the CNRS in Paris. The assembly is primarily formed by the three Principal Investigators of the project (Emmanuel Francis at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS, Paris, Arlo Griffiths at the École française…
From June 16th to July 16th we will hold weekly reading sessions on the Umāmaheśvarasaṃvāda, a Sanskrit text belonging to the so-called "Śivadharma corpus", of which we will study and edit selected chapters in an attempt to throw light on the historical and socio-religious background of the composition of some…
We are glad to announce the results of the selection of two postdoctoral researchers who are going to join the team at the Host Institution soon. Our new team members are postdoctoral researchers Nirajan Kafle, who will join the team from June 1st to do work on the subproject “Nepal”,…
Starting from March 4th, we will hold group reading sessions of the Civatarumōttaram and the Tiruttaṇikaippurāṇam at the EFEO centre of Pondicherry. These are two Tamil texts whose study is among the main research outcome of the team of scholars based in Pondicherry (see PROJECT and OUTPUT for more details).In…
From March 1st, four researchers join the project at the EFEO-Pondycherry centre, to work on the Tamil texts connected to the transmission of the Śivadharma in South India. They are: senior researchers T. Rajarethinam, K. Nachimuthu, and PhD students Sushmita Das and Ganesh Venkataraman. Congratulations to the new team members,…