Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies

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Note: Event titles and abstracts are published in the original language of the respective event. German-language entries therefore indicate events held in German.

Poster Presentations - Excursion to Bhutan and Nepal

04.11.2026 Exhibition

Boudhanath Stupa with its gilded tower, painted eyes and prayer flags, pigeons in the foreground.

Participants of the last Excursion to Bhutan and Nepal | September 2026

Political Agency Online: Ethics and Affects in an Age of Ethno-Nationalism

29.10.2026 Book Presentation

Book Cover of the book "Political Agency Online" by Max Kramer, Routledge, 2026

Max Kramer | Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin

The Unexpected Intersection of Queer Rights and Linguistic Rights in Nepal

15.10.2026 ISTB Thursday lecture

Multilingual banner for the 2023 Nepal Pride Parade in Kathmandu. June 2023. Photo by Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz.

Jessica Birkenholtz | Pennsylvania State University

Ihr Weg durchs erste Semester

Orientierungsplan für Erstsemestrige

Dividing OM, Shaping Mantra Systems

08.07.2026 Summer Academy

Portrait Finnian Gerety

Finnian Gerety | University of Oxford

Keynote lecture of the EurAsia Summer Academy Vienna Summer School on the Cultural and Intellectual History…

EURASIA SUMMER ACADEMY - Vienna Summer School on the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia

06.07.2026 Summer Academy

Bazaar art, mid-1900s, public domain

Mantras Between Language, Ritual, and Materiality

Sanskrit Buddhism in Dvāravatī Art

30.06.2026 Public lecture

Runde Steinplatte mit strahlenförmigem Relief um ein zentrales Loch und dekorativen Ringen

Piriya Krairiksh

The Kathmandu Valley, Nepal and the Eastern Himalayas. Ethnogenesis and Ethnolinguistic Prehistory

25.06.2026 CIRDIS lecture

Teil eines Plakates des Vortrags mit Titel und Vortragendem. Im Hintergrund ein Bild mit Menschen aus Nepal vor einem historischen Gebäude.

George van Driem | Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Bern

Vajrayāna Inner Alchemy and the Emergence of Haṭhayoga in Tibet

18.06.2026 ISTB Thursday lecture

Detail of Vajradhāra with Eighty-Five Great Adepts (Mahasiddhas)

Giacomella Orofino | University of Naples “L’Orientale”

Zwischen Abgrenzung und Integration. Buddhismus in Nepal im Austausch mit anderen Traditionen

11.06.2026 ISTB Thursday lecture

Amoghasiddhi SBhcaitya cropped with naga hoods.

Alexander von Rospatt | Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley

The “Sixteen Spheres of the Kadampa”: A Unique Adaptation of the sādhana Format

28.05.2026 ISTB Thursday lecture

Maṇḍala of the Bka’ gdams thig le bcu drug

Ulrike Roesler | University of Oxford

Dhun / Dhūnī. The Fires of the Name

30.04.2026 Exhibition

Poster einer Ausstellung mit einer in Schriftbändern gehüllten Figur vor rituellen Feuerutensilien und Veranstaltungsdetails

A MANTRAMS Project Exhibition