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11 June: Talk on As the Monks Have Always Lived: The Mūlācāra and Monastic Conduct in Digambara Jainism by Kshitij Jain

29 May: POETRY AT THE GARAGE

30 May: 41th Sanskrit Traditions Symposium hosted in partnership with the High Commission of India, London

OCHS Bursaries now open for applications. Close date: 6 June

5 June: Talk on “The Human and the Divine in Rabindranath Tagore” by Prof. Sukanta Chaudhuri FBA

27 May: Talk on “Medical Humanities, History, and Hindu Studies: Two Views on Vaccination During the Plague Pandemic in Calcutta” by Utsa Bose

Research Projects

Fellows

Visiting Fellows

Students

SELF-TAUGHT COURSES 50% OFF

To celebrate the Summer our Continuing Education Department is offering a rare 50% discount on all online Self-Taught Courses. These in-depth explorations of Hindu traditions include video lectures, comprehensive notes, and lifetime access, so you can learn anytime, at your own pace!

The offer includes:

– Hindu Temples

– Bhagavad Gita: Divinity and Humanity

– Hinduism and Popular Religious Art

– Mahabharata and Ramayana

– The Puranas

– Vaishnavism: History, Teachings, and Practice

Flagship Indic Database and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Devanagari

OCHS Faculty are leading Devanagari Optical Character Recognition (OCR) research at Oxford University with a £42,250 Digital Scholarship (DiSc) Research Development grant