Ce carnet est le site de communication et de diffusion du projet DHARMA : The Domestication of “Hindu” Asceticism and the Religious Making of South and Southeast Asia (ERC 809994). Son objet est de diffuser l’information concernant le projet (activités scientifiques, découvertes, etc.). Ce carnet s’adresse tant à la communité scientifique qu’au grand public.
Samana Gururaja joined the project ERC DHARMA as a member of the TF-B in December, 2021. She is a specialist of Kannada inscriptions. To know more about Samana Gururaja, please click on her profile page.
Amandine Wattelier-Bricout joined the project in January 2022 as a member of the TF-B team! In the ERC DHARMA framework, her study of the corpus from Orissa dedicated to the Somavaṁśin dynasty focuses inter alia on four main issues: First she observes how the Somavaṁśin kings represent themselves as...
Task-force B in Berlin hold an online lecture to welcome our new member, Dr. Samana Gururaja (Kannada epigraphy), to be held on Wednesday, 5th January, 2022, at 16:00 CET. The topic of her talk will be: "Whose Stories are Told? Analysing the occurrence and absence of matriliny in Early Medieval Sout...
From 26 to 28 January 2022, the Conference "Documenter et décrire les langues d'Asie : Histoire et Epistémiologie" organised by the SHESL (Société d’Histoire et d’Epistémologie des Sciences du Langage) will be held at the auditorium of the INALCO. On Friday 28 January at 9:30am, Arlo Griffiths will...
As part of its anniversary, the EFEO is highlighting on its website the collaborative projects in which it is a partner. Arlo Griffiths, PI of the ERC DHARMA, presents the project:As part of its anniversary, the EFEO is highlighting on its website the collaborative projects in which it is a partner....
From 12th to 17th September 2022, the 34th Deutscher Orientalistentag will be held in Berlin: https://dot2022.de/call-for-papers/ . The ERC DHARMA project organises a panel in the section "Indologie und Südasienkunde". The topic of the panel is "Self-Representation and Presentation of Others in Epig...
The next IIAS symposium on 'The Indian Ocean and Epigraphy' will be held online on 10 December 2021. Arlo Griffiths will present an overview of selected epigraphic passages on the theme 'Baṇigrāma and Varga Kilalān: Foreign Trade and Foreign Taxpayers in 11th Century East Java'. To attend the sympos...
On the occasion of the celebration of the EFEO's 120th anniversary on Friday 3 December 2021, Arlo Griffiths and Dominic Goodall will present the ERC DHARMA Project and the work done at the EFEO branch in Pondicherry. Please find the programme below :
Annette Schmiedchen gave a lecture on the DHARMA project's vihāra-related research in South and Southeast Asia for an online lecture series about 'Different Perspectives on Monasteries in India' organised online by the Japanese Vihāra Project (one of our collaboration partners) on 13th / 14th Novemb...
Synergy with SHIVADHARMA and beyond : First workshop in presence after long Florinda de Simini, Coline Lefrancq, Annette Schmiedchen, and Lucas den Boer of the ERC DHARMA and ERC SHIVADHARMA projects interacted with the Vienna-based Shahi project and others in a workshop organised by the University...
The upcoming workshop on "Le terrain en Asie du Sud en contexte difficile : tour d’horizon des méthodologies développées par les chercheuses et chercheurs en sciences humaines et sociales" organised by Valérie Gillet and Coline Lefrancq will take place on 10 November 2021 at La Maison de l'Asie (Par...
At the Siem Reap EFEO Center (Cambodia), between March and June 2021, Dominique Soutif and Chloé Chollet worked together within the framework of the CIK programme (see https://cik.efeo.fr/). Several tasks were to be carried out to complete and correct the inscription inventory as well as the digital...
During the 2-week Third Annual Workshop in Indian Epigraphy, hosted by the University of Toronto and held from 14th through 25th June, members of the DHARMA team, notably of Task-Force B, were among the organisers and participants. The workshop was a great success with some 50-60 participants hailin...
Arlo Griffiths and Daniel Bálogh will present the project ERC DHARMA at the next London Digital Classicist Seminar (Digital Classicist: wip wip2021) on Friday 11 June 2021 (6 pm CET). Their presentation, entitled "Project DHARMA: Pushing South and Southeast Asian Textual Sources into the Digital Wor...
Emmanuel Francis, cPI of the project ERC DHARMA, will present the digital projects (the projet ERC DHARMA and the ANR TST) on Tamil inscriptions and manuscripts on Thursday 27 May (5 pm - 6:30 pm CET) The presentation will be broadcast on the BULAC Youtube channel :Lumière sur des projets numériques...
From June 14th to June 26th (every Monday, Wednesday and Friday), the Third Annual Workshop in Indian Epigraphy will take place, covering inscriptions from the fourth to the eleventh centuries. To register please send a 2-3 sentence expression of interest detailing your Sanskrit training and your in...
Due to the pandemic, the communication within the whole consortium is less fluent and the team's cohesion is less effective. Setting out from this premise, the Project ERC DHARMA organises 4 task-forces meetings between the end of April and the beginning of June. The main goal is to reinvigorate the...
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,Department of Asian and African Studies of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, is hiring a Reseach Fellow on Epigraphy and Art of Karnataka for the edition, the translation, and the interpretation of the Kannada inscriptions of the Calukya dynasty of Kal...
Aditia Gunawan, a member of the Dharma project, Ph.D. candidate at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE-PSL) Paris, organized an Old Sundanese reading class by Zoom, entitled in Sundanese Tadarus Sunda Kuno ‘Old Sundanese Reading’. Tadarus is a Sundanese term derived from Arabic, which means a...
On the April 8th, Annette Schmiedchen (Task-force B's PI), will participate in the conference organised by the Humboldt University of Berlin. Annette Schmiedchen will present her work on the ": Buddhist Endowments by Śaiva Kings – Religious Patronage of the Maitrakas in Western India (6th-8th Cent.)...
Illustration credit: Tintin Lontoc On April 7th and 9th, Arlo Griffiths (Task-force C PI) will participate in the online conference "Returning to the Region: Philippine History and the Contingencies of Southeast Asia", organised by the University of Cambridge and the Yale-NUS College. Arlo Griffiths...
On March 17th, Annette Schmiedchen (Task-force B's PI) will participate in the conference organised by the Martin-Luther University of Halle Wittenberg (Germany) and the Kakenhi (Japan). Annette Schmiedchen will present her work on the "Vihāra, mahāvihāra, and vihāramaṇḍala. The Terminology for Budd...
Inked estampage of a page of the Maliyapūṇḍi grant of Amma II. See the end of the article for details. This little article is about an interesting discovery of some really unusual verse forms in epigraphic records. Before I can tell you about that, though, it will be best to do a quick recap on the...
Members of Task-Force C (Dominic Goodall, Kunthea Chhom, Chhunteng Hun and Chloé Chollet) along with Prof. Diwakar Acharya (University of Oxford) and Dr. Nina Mirnig (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna) meet online on Wednesday mornings to study Sanskrit inscriptions originating from Nepal (especi...