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Did Sufis Steal Āsanas From Yogis? Intertextuality in Medieval Sanskrit, Persian and Hindi Yoga and Svarodaya Works

Würdigungspreis 2025 für Luisa Masznitz

ISTB Library Receives Prestigious Tipitaka Commemorative Edition from Thailand

The Body and the Dharmata: Sensory Experience in Tibetan Nyingma Polemics

Unfurling with a Song: Ecological Themes and the Question of Creative Labour in Contemporary Scroll-Paintings

Embodied Energies: Mantra, Gesture, and the Poetics of Bharata-nāṭyam Repertoires

History of Mongolian Buddhism – Talk & Discussion

Existence and Emptiness in Late Medieval Latin Semantics

Ethics in Research

Language as a philosophical and religious tool in South Asia

Monuments of Modernity: Market-Halls of Colonial India

Texts in Context. An Inquiry into the Social and Religious Context in which the Kālacakra Buddhist Tradition originated

Revisiting Paul Hacker's 'Two Accounts of Cosmogony' in the Manusmṛti. Vedic Myth and Preclassical Sāṅkhya Theory of Emanation

50+ years of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna

The Symbol of Ascent in Brahmanical and Christian Discourse

The Enchanted World of Bombay Film. Anglo-Indian women and the discourses of stardom through archival ephemera from the Urdu public sphere in India (1930-50)

Science and Practice in Dialogue: Meditation Research at the University of Vienna

Contact Zones - Connecting Medicine and Alchemy Through Text and Image

What, if Anything, Can We Learn from “Forgotten” Mahāyāna Sūtras? A Case Study of the “Five Corruptions” in the *Surata-sutra

The Inner Body in Motion in a South Indian Martial Art

Tibetan Monastic Curricula: When did they first emerge?

Transnational Buddhism and Ambedkarite Migration

Abhidharmakośa Commentaries Across the Himalayas: Changing Interpretations of Karma Theories

Inspired by the Goddess, Working for a Livelihood, or Locked up in a Dark Room: The Constitution of a Sanskrit Poet

Dedications on Tibetan Canonical Artefacts. Connecting Literature, Material Culture, and Social Context

Tibetan Buddhism and Neuroscience: Conceptual Frameworks for Visual Meditation Practices

Outcaste Awakening: Corpse Meditation and Cremation-Ground Asceticism in Ancient India

ISTB Research Day

Philosophical Perspectives on Language in premodern South Asia

Turbans in the Trenches: Indian soldiers on the Western Front in the First World War

The Indian Army 1850-1950: Continuity and Change

Sounds, Literature and Images: Indian Experience in the First World War

Re-editing the Suhṛllekha, attributed to Nāgārjuna

The Viśvantara-jātaka as a work of Religious Literature

Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Translation Grant in Buddhist Studies

World Hindi Secretariat program participation

“True Faith” and Cultural Translations. Jesuit Mission in Malabar and the Literary Legacy of Francisco Roz S.J. (1559-1624)

The 23rd letter of the Tibetan alphabet: the controversy continues

Hidden in Plain Sight: Identification and Analysis of Some Early Sāṃkhya and Yoga Texts (Part I)

The Himalayan Periphery, the British Raj and the Home-Grown Tibetologist: Examining the Role, Scholarship and Subjectivity of Sarat Chandra Das in Late-19th Century Bengal

Dharmakīrti versus Akalaṅka on the Nature, Object, and Structure of Perception

The Development of Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicons. How voluntary crowdsourcing is changing the Sanskrit Internet

Dangerous Liaisons. Silences and Absences in Memories and Narratives of Belonging/Displacement by South Asian Migrants and Refugees in Italy

Anthropologist and Tibetologist

Die Darstellung von Konflikten in mittelalterlichen Sanskrit-Inschriften

Editorial Practices in Premodern Tibet: Printing Gampopa’s Jewel Ornament of Liberation

Cosmopolitical Himalayas: Humans and Non-Humans in Indigenous Mythologies

The Multiple Lives of Lokenath Brahmachari. Multiple Affiliations and Religious Belonging in Bengal

Pandemics, Epidemics, Academics. Projects on the medical traditions in South Asia and Tibet

Sowa Rigpa Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Material Manifestations of Protection and Treatment

Neues zu einer alten buddhologischen Streitfrage: Aśvaghoṣa und sein Sūtrālaṃkāra

Die Zukunft des Subkontinents in südasiatischer Science Fiction

Resurgent Buddhist Nationalism's Impact on a Sri Lankan Sufi Shrine

Brahmanism Through the Looking Glass: Religion and Genre in Jaina Purāṇas

Diachronic pathways and synchronic variation: The dynamics of case marking and alignment system in New Indo-Aryan

Translation as religious practice – Translating religious practices. Roberto Nobili (1577–1656) as missionary translator between culture, religion and societies

Advanced Computational Methods for Studying Buddhist Texts

Criminal Bandits and Nationalist Heroes. Ambiguous Gurus in the Discourses of the Sannyasi and Fakir Rebellion

Shiny Toenails. Verses from Bengali Anthologies and from the Lokeśvaraśataka

Unpacking Cultural Evolution: A Case Study from the Mahābhārata

A Buddhist Preacher on Gambling

Contradiction and Common Sense in Haribhadrasūri’s Anekāntajayapatākā

Understanding Potency in Tibetan Medicine: Forms of nüpa in the Crystal Globe & Crystal Rosary and Related Texts