Fellow type: Research Fellow
Dr Kenneth Valpey
Biography:
Dr Kenneth Valpey is a research fellow at the OCHS where he is co-director of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa Research Project. Together with Prof. Ravi M. Gupta he has edited a volume of articles and translated a volume of selections from the Bhāgavata Purāṇa, both volumes published by Columbia University Press (2013; 2016 respectively). Dr Valpey is also a research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics (OCAE) where he has written and lectured on nonviolence and environmentalism as well as on the application of yoga principles and practices for animal-human relationships and animal protection.
Dr Valpey completed his DPhil (PhD) in 2003 from the University of Oxford with a study of Vaishnava temple liturgical practices and theology (published by Routledge in 2006 as Attending Kṛṣṇa’s Image: Caitanya Vaiṣṇava Mūrti-sevā As Devotional Truth).
Dr Valpey has taught courses on Indian religion and culture at the University of Florida, Gainesville, at Chinese University of Hong Kong, and at the University of Pula, Croatia. His emphasis is on pursuing a comparative-integrative understanding of dharmic traditions and exploring these traditions in contemporary contexts. He frequently gives visiting lectures at various universities, including universities in the People’s Republic of China.
Selected Publications:
His publications include:
- Cow Care in Hindu Animal Ethics, Palgrave Macmillan, Animal Ethics book series, 2019.
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Krishna Seva: Traditional Ritual in the Practice of Bhakti Yoga, Dual-language publication, Mandarin and English, Kunming, China: Yunnan University Press, 2018.
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The Bhāgaavata Putāṇa: Selected Readings, Co-authored, with Ravi M. Gupta. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.
- The Bhāgaavata Putāṇa: Sacred Text and Living Tradition, Co-edited, with Ravi M. Gupta. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013.
Professor Amiya P. Sen
Biography
Amiya P. Sen is by training a historian with special interest in the intellectual and cultural history of colonial India. Prof (Dr) Sen took his undergraduate and graduate degrees in history from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi and thereafter went on to do research under Prof. Sumit Sarkar, again at the University of Delhi. After a brief career in the civil services, he served the Universities of Delhi and Visva Bharati (as Tagore Professor at Rabindra Bhavan) and is currently professor of modern Indian history at the Department of History & Culture at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Prof. Sen was Agatha Harrison Fellow at the University of Oxford, Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, and at the Centre for Contemporary Studies, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi. Until mid 2016 he was the Heinrich Zimmer Chair at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University.
Research Areas
Hinduism and the intellectual and cultural history of Modern India.
Research Interests
The intellectual and cultural history of colonial India and biographical studies on eminent Indian historical figures.
Selected Publications
- Chaitanya. A life and legacy (Oxford University Press. 2019).
- An Idealist in India. Selected Writings and Speeches of Sister Nivedita (Primus Books, 2016).
- Rammohun Roy: A Critical Biography (Viking, 2012).
- Explorations in Modern Bengal (c. 1800-1900): Essays on Religion, History and Culture, (Primus Books, 2010).
- Hindu Revivalism in Bengal, 1872-1905: Some Essays in Interpretation (OUP India, 2001).
Chapters and Articles
- “Theorising Bengal Vaishnavism. Bipinchandra Pal and New Perspectives on Religious Life and Culture”, in: Ferdinando Sardella & Lucian Wong eds., The Legacy of Vaishnavim in Colonial Bengal, Routledge, London & New York ( 2020).
- “Hinduism under Interpretative Stress. A View from Nineteenth Century Bengal”, in: Sabyasachi Bhattacahrya ed., A Comprehensive History of Modern Bengal. 1700-1950 Vol. 2, Primus Publications, Delhi ( 2019).
- “A Hindu Conservative Negotiates Modernity. Chandranath Basu (1844-1910) and Reflections on the Self and Culture in Colonial Bengal”, in: Rafael Klober & Manu Ludwig eds., Her Story. Historical Schlarship between South Asia and Europe. Festscrift in honour of Gita Dharampal Frick, Cross Asia Books, Heidelberg (2018).
- “Debates within Colonial Hinduism”, in: Brian A. Hatcher ed., Hinduism in the Modern World, Routledge, New York & London (2015).
- “Hindu Reform Movements in British India”, in: Gita Dharampal-Frick et al. eds., Key Concepts in Modern Indian Studies, Oxford University Press, New Delhi (2015).
Dr Ferdinando Sardella
Biography:
Dr Ferdinando Sardella completed his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Gothenburg in 2010 about the life and thought of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, a modern Hindu revivalist and founder, in 1918 in Calcutta, of what became known as the Gaudiya Math and Mission. The monograph received the Donner Institute Prize at Åbo Akademi University in Finland and was published by Oxford University Press. He completed a postdoctoral program at Uppsala University (2011-2014) and is a research fellow at the OCHS. He has conducted field work in India for a total period of two years and is associated with the Centre for the Study of Society and Religion at Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
Research Area/s:
His field of research includes Hinduism, South Asian Studies, Bengal Studies, yoga, New Religious Movements and the History and Sociology of Religion.
He is working at present with a mapping of Hinduism in Europe with Prof. Knut Jacobsen from the University of Bergen. Together they organised an international conference in April 2017 called “Hinduism in Europe”. This research will result in two edited volumes with contributions from researchers from several countries in Europe, which will be published by Brill in the series “Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia” (2020). He also worked on another edited volume, with Lucian Wong from the University of Oxford, with the preliminary title The Legacy of Vaishnavism in Colonial Bengal, which will be published in the Routledge Hindu Studies Series (2020).
Selected Publications:
Monographs
- Sardella, Ferdinando. Modern Hindu Personalism: the History, Life and Thought of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press (2013). (342 sidor)
Edited volumes
- Sardella, Ferdinando, Daniel Enstedt and Göran Larsson (red.). Religionens varp och trasor/Warp and Rags of Religion: en festskrift till Åke Sander. Göteborg: LIR skrifter, Göteborgs universitet (2016) (214 s.)
- Sardella, Ferdinando och Ruby Sain (eds.). The Sociology of Religion in India: Past, Present and Future. New Delhi: Abhijeet Publications (2013). (237 s.)
Chapters and articles
- Sardella, Ferdinando. “Bhaktisiddhanta and ISKCON” in Torkel Brekke (ed.), The Oxford History of Hinduism: Modern Hinduism. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2019-06-27) s. 72-89.
- Sardella, Ferdinando. “Konstruktiv religionskritik och hinduism” in Olof Franck och Mikael Stenmark (eds.), Konstruktiv religionskritik. Stockholm: Sanoma utbildning (2019), s. 13-48.
- Sardella, Ferdinando. “Ādhunika Bāṃlār Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavatattva” (”Gaudiya Vaishnava Views in Modern Bengal”, in Bengali) in Bhabanagara: International Journal of Bengal Studies, vol. 4, february 2016, s. 507-518.
- Sardella, Ferdinando, “The Concept of ‘Transcendence’ in Modern Western Philosophy and in Twentieth Century Hindu Thought”, Argument, Biannual Philosophical Journal (2016).
- Sardella, Ferdinando. “Phenomenology and Yoga in Åke Sander’s Early and Late Works”, in Daniel Enstedt, Göran Larsson & Ferdinando Sardella (eds.), Religionens varp och trasor/Warp and Rags of Religion: en festskrift till Åke Sander. Göteborg: LIR skrifter, Göteborgs universitet (2016).
- Sardella Ferdinando, “Hinduism“, in Aaron J. Ghiloni (red.), World Religions and Their Missions. New York: Peter Lang (2015), s. 153-181.
- Sardella Ferdinando. “Colonial Bengal and Bhaktivinoda through the Lens of Bhaktisiddhanta”, Journal of Vaishnava Studies, 23.1 (2014), s. 189-204.
- Sardella, Ferdinando, ”Himalaya mellan Bollywood och yoga” in Eva Hellman (red.), Religion och berg, Skellefteå: Artos & Norma (2014), s. 217-228.
- Sardella, Ferdinando. “Hälsoterapi eller tro? Yoga i teori och praktik” in Göran Ståhle and Jessica Moberg (eds.), Helig hälsa: helandemetoder i det mångreligiösa Sverige. Stockholm: Dialogos (2013), s. 130-144.
- Sardella, Ferdinando. “Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati” in Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Knut Jakobsen, Helene Basu, Angelika Malinar, Vasudha Narayanan (eds.), Leiden: Brill (2013). Vol. V, s. 415-421.
- Sardella, Ferdinando. “The Hindu Turn towards Nondualism: The Case of Swami Vivekananda” in Ferdinando Sardella och Ruby Sain (eds.), The Sociology of Religion in India: Past, Present and Future, New Delhi: Abhijeet Publications (2013), s. 166-187.
- Sardella, Ferdinando & Abhishek Ghosh. “Text Migration: The Translation and Modern Reception of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa” in The Bhāgavata Purāṇa: Sacred Text and Living Tradition, Ravi Gupta and Kenneth Valpey (eds.), New York: Columbia University Press (2013), s. 221-248.
- Sardella, Ferdinando, “Hinduism in Sweden” in Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Knut Jakobsen, Helene Basu, Angelika Malinar, Vasudha Narayanan (eds.), Leiden: Brill, (2013). Vol. V, s. 312-316.
- Sardella, Ferdinando. “Religious Experiments in Colonial Calcutta: Modern Hinduism and bhakti among the Indian Middle Class” in Religion and the Body. Tore Ahlbäck and Björn Dahla (red.), Åbo: Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History (2011), s. 364-380.
- Sardella, Ferdinando. “Shifts in Burmese Buddhism: the Practice Lineage of S. N. Goenka”, Journal of Sociology, Kolkata: Jadavpur University, vol. 3, nr. 3, (March 2010), ISSN 0976 – 5212, s. 1-14.
- Sardella, Ferdinando. “Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati: A Personalist View of Nature”, Journal of Vaishnava Studies, 18.2 (2010), s. 43-66.
- Sardella, Ferdinando. ”Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (1874-1937)”, Journal of Vaishnava Studies, 15.2 (2008), 95-122.
- Sardella, Ferdinando. ”Hinduism i Sverige”, in Religion i Sverige, Ingvar Svanberg och David Westerlund (eds.), Stockholm: Dialogos (2008).
- Sardella, Ferdinando. ”Krishnarörelsen” in Religion i Sverige, Ingvar Svanberg och David Westerlund (eds.), Stockholm: Dialogos (2008).
- Sardella, Ferdinando. ”Krishnaskolan, mellan öst och vast”, in Religiösa friskolor i Sverige: historiska och nutida perspektiv, Jenny Berglund and Göran Larsson, (eds.), Lund: Studentlitteratur (2007), s. 76-93).
- Sardella, Ferdinando. “Neither man nor God—Perspectives on the guru in the Hare Krishna Movement in Sweden” in FINYAR, year 2, s. 76-93 (2005).
- Sardella, Ferdinando. ”Prinsessa och asket. Samtida tolkningar av Mirabai” in Cakra: Journal for Indian Religions, Lunds universitet, Center för teologi och religionsvetenskap, nr. 1, s. 36-49 (2004).
Dr Neeraja Poddar
Biography:
Neeraja Poddar is The Ira Brind and Stacey Spector Associate Curator of South Asian Art at Philadelphia Museum of Art, and a Research Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University. She was the Andrew W. Mellon—Anne d’Harnoncourt Postdoctoral Fellow in South Asian Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and is now Curator at The City Palace Museum, Udaipur.
Poddar co-curated the reinstallation of the South Asian galleries at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She also worked on a book project related to illustrated manuscripts of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa as well as a catalogue of The City Palace Museum, Udaipur’s silver collection.
Research Area/s:
South Asian illustrated manuscripts and early modern Indian painting.
Research Interests:
Historiography, the materiality of books, the relationships between text and image and the transmission and circulation of narratives. As well as the painting traditions of Nepal with particular emphasis on Vaiṣṇava imagery.
Selected Publications:
- Epic Tales from Ancient India: Paintings from The San Diego Museum of Art (San Diego Museum of Art, 2017).
- Bismillah Khan: The Shehnai Maestro (Rupa Publications, 2004).
Chapters and Articles
- “In the Age of Non-Mechanical Reproduction: Manuscript Variation in Early Modern South Asia”, Manuscript Studies 4/1, 1.18 (2019).
- “‘Reframing’ the Bhāgavata: Preservation and Reuse in South Asian Illustrated Manuscripts”, The Journal of Hindu Studies 11/2, 116–132 (2018).
- “Krishna goes to War: Translating the Bhāgavata’s Battle Scenes,” International Journal of Hindu Studies 22/1, 105-122 (2018).
Dr Kiyokazu Okita
Biography:
Dr. Kiyokazu Okita is Associate Professor of Hindu Studies at Faculty of Liberal Arts and at Graduate Program in Global Studies, Sophia University, Tokyo. He is also a research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. He is the author of Hindu Theology in Early Modern South Asia (Oxford University Press, 2014) as well as the editor of The Building of Vṛndāvana (Brill, 2024. Co-edited with Dr. Rembert Lutjeharms). He has published articles in various academic journals such as Journal of Indian Philosophy, International Journal of Hindu Studies, and Journal of Vaishnava Studies. In his current research project, The Aesthetic Theories of Devotion in Late Medieval South Asia funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion Science (2023-27), Okita traces a history of devotional aesthetic sentiment (bhakti-rasa) that emerged after the tenth century.
Edited volume:
- 2024, (Co-edited with Rembert Lutjeharms) The Building of Vṛndāvana: Architecture, Theology, and Practice in an Early Modern Pilgrimage Town, Brill’s Indological Library, Vol. 57 (Leiden: Brill)
Journal articles:
- 2021, “A Genealogy of Divine Paramour: Rūpa Gosvāmī’ Ujjvalanīlamaṇi in the History of Sanskrit Dramaturgy and Literary Criticism”, Journal of Vaishnava Studies, 30: 1, 225-244.
- 2021, “The Theology of the Caitanya Vaiṣṇava Sampradāya: Six Distinctive Features”, Journal of Vaishnava Studies, 29: 2, 5-24.
- 2021, “Śleṣa Readings on Bhāgavatapurāṇa 1.1.1: Śrīnātha Cakravartī’s Caitanyamatamañjuṣā Commentary”, The Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies, 69: 3, 979-985.
- 2020, “Rejecting Monism: Dvaita Vedānta’s Engagement with the Bhāgavatapurāṇa”, Journal of Indian Philosophy, 48: 3, 447-465.
- 2020, “The Authorship of the Commentary on Vopadeva’s Harilīlā”, The Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies, 68: 3, 1107-1113.
- 2019, “Bitextuality in Bhāgavata Purāṇa X.29”, The Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies, 66: 3, 1043-1048.
- 2018, “Ethics and Aesthetics in Early Modern South Asia: A Controversy surrounding the Bhāgavata Purāṇa Book X”, International Journal of Hindu Studies, Special Issue, Translating the Bhāgavata Purāṇa, ed. by Anand Mishra and Monika Horstmann, 22: 1, 25-43.
Book chapters:
- 2020, “Divine Transgression: Devotion and Ethics in Bengali Vaiṣṇavism”, The Legacy of Vaisnavism in Colonial Bengal ed. by Lucian Wong and Ferdinando Sardella (Oxford: Routledge), pp. 212-232.
- 2019, “Singing in Protest: Early Modern Hindu-Muslim Encounters in Bengali Hagiographies of Chaitanya”, Bhakti and Power: Debating India’s Religion of the Heart ed. by John Stratton Hawley, Swapna Sharma, and Christian Lee Novetzke (Seattle: The University of Washington Press), pp. 159-170.
Dr Ionut Moise
Biography
Tutor in Comparative Philosophy in relation to the Aarhus University – OCHS visiting student programme at Oxford, my current research interests are Indian and Classical Greek philosophy (metaphysics), scholastic philosophy (Duns Scotus), Continental Philosophy (Gilles Deleuze), Existentialism (Albert Camus), Comparative Religion and Theology, Theory of Science, and Sanskrit philology.
I did my doctorate in Indian Philosophy (Vaiśeṣika) at the University of Oxford (2012-2018) which lead to the publication of my first monograph: ‘Salvation in Indian Philosophy’ (Routledge 2019) which offers a comprehensive outline on the ‘doctrine of salvation’ (niḥśreyasa) in Vaiśeṣika system, a succinct overview of comparable classical theories of salvation in other related Indian philosophical systems as well as brief references to Hellenistic doctrines of salvation collected from Christian Patristics and Gnostic sources.
While I esteem the importance and necessity of philology and textual criticism in philosophy, my method, however, is synchronic. More recently I have developed, in the vein of Wilhelm Halbfass (Indologist and philosopher), an innovative course of Comparative Philosophy which I teach at OCHS, Oxford. This represents the very material of my next book project.
Selected Publications
- (book) Salvation in Indian Philosophy. Perfection and Simplicity for Vaiśeṣika. 2019. Routledge Hindu Studies Series: https://www.brownsbfs.co.uk/Product/Moise-Ionut/Salvation-in-Indian-Philosophy–Perfection-and-Simplicity-for-Vaisesika/9780367420239
- (book) Vaiśeṣikasūtra. A Translation (with Ganesh U. Thite) 2021. Routledge Hindu Studies Series: https://www.routledge.com/Vaiseikasutra-A-Translation/Moise-Thite/p/book/9780367770822
- (research article) ‘The interplay between ‘abhyudaya’ and ‘niḥśreyasa’ in Vaiśeṣika system.’ Journal of Hindu Studies, Oxford University Press (Jun. 2019)
- (research article) ‘The Static and the Dynamic in Vaiśeṣika’s Eschatology’. Romanian Journal for Indian Studies. Cluj Centre for Indian Studies. 2/ 2018
- (Encyclopaedia entry) ‘Vedānta’ In Wiley Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Philosophy of Religion. Eds. Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro, Oxford, Jan 2021.
- (Encyclopaedia entry) ‘Hinduism, Philosophy of’ In Wiley Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Philosophy of Religion. Eds. Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro, Oxford, Jan 2021.
- (chapter) ‘Yoga in Vaiśeṣika darśana’, In ‘Proceedings in Yoga in Theory and Practice’ (Conference, January 2016). B.K. Dalai (Ed.), Pune: CASS, S.P. Pune University. (printed volume)
- (chapter) ‘Criticism and change in Vaiśeṣika’s commentarial tradition’ In Critics and Criticism in Indian traditions (Conference, February 2016), B.K. Dalai (Ed.), Pune: CASS, S.P. Pune University (printed volume)
Dr James Madaio
Biography
James Madaio is a research fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague and at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. He is Editor of the Journal of Hindu Studies (Oxford University Press) and Regional Editor (Indic traditions) of Bloomsbury Academic’s Introductions to World Philosophies book series. His monograph, Advaita Vedānta and the Story of Liberation: Vidyāraṇya’s Narrative Philosophy, is under contract with Oxford University Press. He is also an editor of two forthcoming volumes: The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Non-duality in Indian Thought (co-edited with Jonathan Duquette) and Provincializing Pluralism: Difference and Diversity in South Asian Traditions (co-edited with Brian Black). He received his PhD from the University of Manchester and was a postdoctoral fellow at New Europe College (Bucharest) and an affiliated researcher at the Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute (Chennai). He was previously a lecturer at the University of Maryland, the University of Manchester, and Charles University. He is currently Adjunct Faculty at the Consciousness Studies programme at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore and is the recent recipient of a multiyear research grant from the Czech Science Foundation.
Research Interests
Advaita Vedānta; historiography and genealogy of modern advaita-related movements; Indic theories of self, pedagogy, and hermeneutics; Cross-cultural philosophy and dialogue; Transnational South Asian traditions and the Global Occult
Selected Publications
Chapters and Articles
- ‘The Narrative Shape of Orthopraxy: Storytelling, dharma, and the path to liberation in Advaita Vedānta’. The Journal of Hindu Studies (2021), 14.3, pp. 326–377
- “Transparent smoke in the pure sky of consciousness: emotions and liberation-while-living in the Jīvanmuktiviveka”,in: Maria Heim, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Roy Tzohar eds., The Bloomsbury Handbook of Classical Indian Emotions, Bloomsbury, London (2021).
- “Neglected Advaitas: The Genealogy of Swami Vivekananda’s Cosmopolitan Theology”, in: Rita Sherma ed., Vivekananda: His Life, Legacy and Relevance, Lexington Books, Lanham (2021).
- “Vernacular Hinduisms: Texts, Traditions, and Transformation” (co-authored with James S. Bradbury), The Journal of Hindu Studies13:2 (2020).
- “Transformative dialogue in the Yogavāsiṣṭha”, in: Brian Black & Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad eds., In Dialogue with Classical Indian Traditions: Encounter Transformation, and Interpretation, Routledge, London (2019).
- “Liberation and Hindu Studies”, The Journal of Hindu Studies 12/1, 1–11 (2019).
- “The Instability of Non-dual Knowing: Post-gnosis sādhana in Vidyāraṇya’s Advaita Vedānta”, Journal of Dharma Studies1/1, 11-30 (2018).
- “Rethinking Neo-Vedānta: Swami Vivekananda and the Selective Historiography of Advaita Vedānta”, Religions 8/6 (2017).
- “The Shinto Religion”, in: Suheil Bushrui, et al., The Spiritual Heritage of the Human Race: An Introduction to the World’s Religions, Oneworld Publications, Oxford (2010).
- “The Religious Traditions of Ancient Greece”, in: Suheil Bushrui, et al., The Spiritual Heritage of the Human Race: An Introduction to the World’s Religions, Oneworld Publications, Oxford (2010).
Dr Silvia Schwarz Linder
Biography:
PhD in South Asian Studies (University of Vienna), Silvia has lectured in the past at the Leopold-
Franzens-Universität in Innsbruck and at the University Ca’ Foscari in Venice. She was Research Associate at the Institut für Indologie und Zentralasienwissenschaften of the University of Leipzig,
and is currently Research Fellow at the OCHS.
Research Area/s:
Her interests focus on the Tantric religious traditions of the Śrīvidyā and of the Pāñcarātra,
specifically on the philosophical and theological doctrines expressed in the relevant South Indian
Sanskrit textual traditions. She has also translated into Italian texts from the Sanskrit narrative and
devotional literature, for editions aimed at a general readership.
Selected Publications:
Her publications include:
- The Philosophical and Theological Teachings of the Pādmasahitā, Verlag der Österreichischen
Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 2014. - Goddess Traditions in India / Theological Poems and Philosophical Tales in the Tripurārahasya,
Routledge Hindu Studies Series, Routledge, London and New York 2022. - “The 108 Names of the Goddess Tripurā in the Māhātmyakha a of the Tripurārahasya”, in T.
Goudriaan (ed.), The Sanskrit Tradition on Tantrism (Panels of the VII World Sanskrit Conference,
vol. I), E. J. Brill, Leiden 1990, 85-95. - “The Lady of the Island of Jewels and the Polarity of her Peaceful and Warring Aspects”, in A.
Michaels, C. Vogelsanger, A. Wilke (eds.), Wild Goddesses in India and Nepal, Studia Religiosa
Helvetica Jahrbuch, vol. 2 , Peter Lang, Bern 1996, 105-122. - “The Relevance of rūpa and mūrti for the Doctrine of God in the Pādmasahitā”, Journal of
Hindu Studies, Vol. 8, Nr. 2, Oxford 2015, 233-244.
– “Is Yogic Suicide Useless? The Practice of utkrānti in Some Tantric VaiLMava and Śaiva
Sources”, Journal of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 48, Nr. 3, 2020, 427-445.
Dr Natalia Lidova
Biography:
Dr Natalia Lidova is one of the leading Russian scholars within the field of Sanskrit literature and Hindu culture. She has worked as a Visiting Professor at Delhi University, J.N.U., Benaras Sanskrit University, Poona University and Calcutta University.
Selected publications:
- Yajna and puja. A comparison of the ritual archetypes. – Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay, vol.74, 2000, p.127-138;
- The Vedic Sources of Hindu Creation Myth. – prakrti.The Integral Vision. General Editor K.Vatsyayan. New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts, 1995;
- Drama and Ritual of Early Hinduism. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1994 (Second edition, 1996);
- Amrtamanthana.Vedic Ritual and Epic Myth. – IX World Sanskrit Conference. Abstracts, Melbourne, 1993;
- Ritual Sources of Sanskrit Drama. – Indian Traditions through the Ages. New Delhi, 1990;
- Rangadevatapujana in the Natyasastra and the Agamic Rituals. – VIII World Sanskrit Conference. Abstracts, Vienna, 1990.