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Lehrstuhl für Indologie

Lived Sanskrit Cultures

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These courses are intensive courses in Varanasi, India.

They are designed to impart a practice oriented training in methods of cultural and religious studies focussing on how Sanskrit texts are taught, applied, enacted, inscribed in spaces and lived by practitioners, women and men, in Varanasi.

Areas of study will mostly include:

  • Teaching Sanskrit and the Veda
  • Performing Rituals
  • Processions in Varanasi
  • A Crash Course in Spoken Sanskrit

This course is recommended for students who have completed at least three semesters of Sanskrit.

Lived Sanskrit Cultures 2023

An article (in German) about the Lived Sanskrit Cultures course 2023 can be found here.  

Lived Sanskrit Cultures 2018

“Welcome at Alice Boner Institute, Varanasi”
“Group photo with teachers and Prof. Hriday Ranjan Sharma after session on Ṣoḍaśopacāra-Pūjā at the Brahmavedavidyālaya”
“Concert at Hotel Ganges View on 22 February 2018 featuring Vidya Shah with Jagannātha’s Gaṅgālaharī and Holi songs by Sundardās. Introduction by Monika Horstmann”
“Queuing in front of a shrine during the performance of the procession of the “Inner City Centre” (Antargṛhayātrā)”
“At the shrine of Mokṣeśvara along the procession road of the Pañcakrośīyātrā”
“Presentation at the library of the Alice Boner Institute“
“At the Man Mandir Observatory”
“Interactions at the Brahmavedavidyālaya”
"Interactions at the Brahmavedavidyālaya"