Śaivism and the Bhāgavata Purāṇa
Early Modern Hindu Theology Seminars Dr Anand Venkatkrishnan 16 May 2016 The Bhāgavata Purāṇa (BhP) is primarily considered the prerogative of Vaiṣṇa...
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Nath Siddhas and Hatha Yoga Practices in South India
Shivadasani Seminar Dr Prabhavati Reddy 9 Jun 2016 By the fifteenth century, the Nath lineage of Siddhas had emerged as influential teachers and wond...
Myth-History Conundrums in the Hagiographies of Satya Pīr: Hindu God and Muslim Holy Man
J.P. And Beena Khaitan Visiting Fellows lecture Prof. Tony K. Stewart 27 Oct 2016 Satya Pīr has been for scholars one of the most puzzling figures in...
The monastic/ascetic tradition of India and its ramification towards the west
Shivdasani lecture Prof. G. C. Tripathi 3 Nov 2016 The lecture would shed light on the Indian phenomenon of monasticism (shrama, shramana) and asceti...
Subjunctive Explorations of Fictive Vaiṣṇav-Sufi Discourse
J.P. And Beena Khaitan Visiting Fellows lecture Prof. Tony K. Stewart 10 Nov 2016 The early modern Bangla tales of the legendary or mythic pīrs are r...
Influence of Kashmir on the Tantric traditions of Orissa
Shivdasani lecture Prof. G. C. Tripathi 24 Nov 2016 The paper shall try to trace the close relationship of the Orissan Tantrism and also Vishnuism to...
The Colloquy between Muhammad and Saytān: The 18th century Bangla Iblichnāmā of Garībullā
Lectures of the J.P. And Beena Khaitan Visiting Fellow Prof. Tony K. Stewart 31 Jan 2017 In 1287 bs [=1879/80 ce] a short Bangla work was published i...
When Muslim and Hindu Worlds Meet in Fiction: Mapping the Bengali Imaginaire
Lectures of the J.P. And Beena Khaitan Visiting Fellow Prof. Tony K. Stewart 16 Feb 2017 A number of Bangla tales dedicated to the fictional or mythi...
‘The lotus in the mire’: the Indian reception of Tājika astrology
Dr. Martin Gansten 3 May 2017 Tājika is the designation of the Sanskritized Perso-Arabic astrology that arose as an independent school following the ...
Rādhā Tantra and the agonies and ecstasies of studying obscure texts
The Rādhā Tantra (RT), also known as Vāsudevarahasya (Vāsudeva’s secret), is a fairly extensive, anonymous Tantric work dealing with the story of Rādh...