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.…
Workshop "Texts Surrounding Texts", University of Hamburg, April 8-10, 2019 On April 8-10, 2019, several team members of the Śivadharma Project — Florinda De Simini, Marco Franceschini, Rajarethinam and Margherita Trento — participated in the kick-off meeting of the Project "Texts Surrounding Texts. Satellite Stanzas, Prefaces and Colophons in South-Indian…
The Tenth International Intensive Sanskrit Reading Retreat took place at the École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO), seat of Siem Reap, Cambodia, from January 3rd to 16th, 2019. The workshop revolved around the reading of Sanskrit texts whose editions are still in preparation, and was structured in three reading sessions a day:…