Himal Trikha

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E-Mail: himal.trikha@univie.ac.at
Web: https://univie.academia.edu/HimalTrikha

Himal Trikha studied Indology at the University of Vienna. He graduated in 1999 on the concept of prescriptive speech acts (vidhi) in Viśiṣṭādvaitavedānta with Gerhard Oberhammer. He completed his doctorate in 2009 on the concept of inherence (samavāya) and other tenets of the Vaiśeṣika in Jaina Sanskrit works with Karin Preisendanz.

Trikha was employed at the ISTB in various research, teaching and project positions from 1999 to 2011, at last within the project The Sanskrit manuscripts of the Woolner collection, Lahore. He then worked at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Vienna, initially within the project Fragments of Indian Philosophy, then within his own Erwin-Schrödinger project Perspectivism and intertextuality in Vidyānandins works. The latter was carried out in part at the Institute Mondes iranien et indien, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris. He returned to the ISTB in 2020.

Research focus

Trikha is interested in the interaction of Jaina philosophers with other traditions of Indian thought. His research focus lies on the history of the epistemological model that the Jainas provide for this interaction (→ anekāntavāda). He further studies distinct textual references to philosophical tenets of other philosophical traditions in Jaina Sanskrit works. Material for this research is collected in the online applications Biobibliography of Digambara Philosophers and Digital Corpus of Vidyānandin's Works. His publications are available at academia.edu.

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Mag. Dr. Himal Trikha

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Summer term 2024

142237 VO Basic concepts of Indian philosophy - An introduction based on translations of early and classical sources

Winter term 2023

142012 VO Introduction to Indology

142214 UE True Colors: The doctrine of the colours of the soul (lesya) in early Jaina Sanskrit Literature

Summer term 2023

142173 UE Reading of straightforward stories in Hemacandras Trisastisalakapurusacarita

142503 BA Parallel narratives in the Jaina Puranas and in the Sanskrit epics: Philological aspects

142539 BA Parallel narratives in the Jaina Puranas and in the Sanskrit epics: Cultural-historical aspects

Trikha, H. (Accepted/In press). Eighty-four Lakh yonis: The Jaina Doctrine of 8.4 Million Embodiments. In P. Flügel (Ed.), (Non) Violence in Jaina Philosophy, Literature and Art

Trikha, H. (2023). Zur Rolle des Verzichts in der Ethik der Jainas. Religionen unterwegs : Zeitschrift der Kontaktstelle für Weltreligionen in Österreich KWR, 29(1), 12-18.

Trikha, H. (2022). J.W. Borgland. Examination into the True Teaching. Vidyānandin's Satyaśāsanaparīkṣā. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2019. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens, 58, 281-284.

Trikha, H. (2017). An example of logical argumentation in Vidyānandin’s Satyaśāsanaparīkṣā. In S. Sarukkai, & M. Chakraborty (Eds.), Handbook of Logical Thought in India. Springer.

Trikha, H. (2017). Creativity within limits: Different usages of a single argument from Dharmakīrti’s Vādanyāya in Vidyānandin’s works. In P. Maas, & E. Freschi (Eds.), Adaptive Reuse: Aspects of Creativity in South Asian Cultural History (pp. 63-108). Harrassowitz. Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes Vol. 101

Trikha, H. (Editorial Journalist). (2016). Digital Corpus of Vidyānandin’s Work. Software or database

Trikha, H. (2015). Trends of research on philosophical Sanskrit works of the Jainas. In J. Soni, & L. Soni (Eds.), Sanmati.: Essays Felicitating Professor Hampa Nagarajaiah on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday. (pp. 423-435). Sapna Book House.

Trikha, H. (2012). Competing world views: Perspectivism and polemics in the Satyaśāsanaparīkṣā and other Jaina works. Journal of Indian Philosophy, 40(1), 25-45.

Trikha, H. (2012). On the composition of the chapter on Vaiśeṣika in Vidyānandin’s Satyaśāsanaparīkṣā. In J. Soni (Ed.), Jaina Studies: Proceedings of the DOT 2010 Panel in Marburg, Germany (pp. 78-96). Aditya Prakashan.

Trikha, H., Preisendanz, K. (Ed.), Oberhammer, G. (Ed.), & Podzeit, U. (Ed.) (2012). Perspektivismus und Kritik: Der epistemische Pluralismus der Jainas angesichts der Polemik gegen das Vaiśeṣika in Vidyānandins Satyaśāsanaparīkṣā. Sammlung De Nobili. Publications of the De Nobili Research Library Vol. 36

Trikha, H. (Editorial Journalist). (2011). Biobibliography of Digambara Philosophers. Software or database

Trikha, H. (2010). Zusammenfassung der Dissertation (Schluss mit ungültigen Perspektiven! Polemik gegen das Vaiśeṣika in der Satyaśāsanaparīkṣā des Digambara Vidyānandin vor dem Hintergrund des kritischen Perspektivismus der Jainas). Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens, 52-53, 309-310.

Trikha, H. (Interviewee), Hrachovec, H. (Ed.) (Editor), Friesinger, G. (Ed.) (Editor), & Wimmer, F. M. (Editorial Journalist). (2009). Kritischer Perspektivismus in der Jaina-Philosophie. Radio show http://audiothek.philo.at/index.php?id=18&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=106&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=2&cHash=024833b7a1