J. Gonda Fonds – Postdoc Fellowship

J. Gonda Fonds – Postdoc Fellowship

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Researchers at postdoctoral level can apply for a Gonda Fellowship at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS).

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Subject areas

Indology, research in the field of Sanskrit, other classical Indian languages, Indian literature and Indian cultural history.

Who is it for?

Indologists at postdoctoral level

About the J. Gonda Foundation

The J. Gonda Foundation is part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and supports the scholarly study of Sanskrit, other classical Indian languages and literature, and Indian cultural history. The Foundation’s assets consist of the estate of Indologist Jan Gonda, who was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Gonda Lectures
2019-2011

2019

James Fitzgerald: The Mahābhārata: The Epic of the Greater Good

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2018

Madhav Deshpande: From Pāṇini to Patañjali and Beyond: Development of religious motifs in Sanskrit grammar

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2017

Harunaga Isaacson: Speaking (and Writing) of Secrets: The Esoteric in Classical Sanskrit Traditions (geen pdf)

2016

Hans Bakker: Monuments of Hope, Gloom, and Glory in the Age of the Hunnic Wars

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2015

Richard Salomon: Siddham across Asia: How the Buddha learned his ABC

2014

Phyllis Granoff: A Space for Tolerance: Responses to Other Religious Groups in Medieval Indian Literature

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2013

D. Shulman: Muttusvāmi Dīkṣitar and the Invention of Modern Carnatic Music (published lecture)

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2012

Robert L. Brown: Carrying Buddhism. The role of metal icons in the spread and development of Buddhism (published lecture)

2011

Harry Falk: Commagene and the cult of Mithras Underestimated factors in Kushan royal self-esteem 

2010-2001

2010

Stephanie Jamison: I Make New the Song Born of Old ‘. A Rig Veda for the New Millennium’

2009

Gérard Fussman: Revisiting the history of Ancient India: the need for a new vision

2008

Sanjay Subrahmanyam: Revisiting Talikota (1565): A battle, its context, and its echoes

2007

Susan Huntington: Art as Tekst, Art as Document: Understanding Buddhism through Art (published lecture)

2006

Alexis Sanderson: Saivism and Brahmanism in the Early Medieval Period

2005

Monika Horstmann: Visions of Kingship in the Twilight of Mughal Rule (published lecture)

2004

S. PollockThe ends of man at the end of premodernity

2003

Ernst Steinkellner: Tale of Leaves: On Sanskrit Manuscripts in Tibet, their Past and their Future

2002

Deborah Klimburg-SalterThrough the prism of history: The art of Kashmir as seen from Tibet

2001

J.P. Olivelle: Food for thought. Dietary rules and social organization in ancient India Ninth Gonda lecture (published lecture)

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2000-1993

2000

S. McGregor: The Formation of Modern Hindi as Demonstrated in Early ‘Hindi’ Dictionaries

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1999

J. Stargardt,: Tracing Thoughts through Things. The Oldest Pali Texts and the Early Buddhist Archaeology of India and Burma

1998

Johannes Bronkhorst: Why is there philosophy in India?

1997

R.F. GombrichKindness and Compassion as Means to Nirvana

1996

Heinrich von Stietencron: Hindu Religious traditions and the Concept of ‘Religion’: Consequences of Cross-Cultural Research

1995

Gananath Obeyesekere: Buddhist karma and Amerindian rebirth: an anthropologist’s reflection on comparative religious ethics

1994

Richard W. Lariviere: Protestants, Orientalists and Brahmanas: reconstructing Indian social histor y

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1993

Wendy Doniger: Masquerading Mothers and False Fathers in Ancient Indian Mythology

Gonda Indological Studies and Groningen Oriental Studies
Gonda Indological Studies

• Theatre and its other. Abhinavagupta on Dance and Dramatic Acting, Gonda Indoligical Studies, Volume: 23, Open Access, Brill 2022
• Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions. Essays in Honour of Alexis G.J.S. Sanderson, Gonda Indological Studies, Volume: 22, Open Access, Brill 2020
• Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape. Narrative, Place, and the Śaiva Imaginary in Early Medieval North India, Elizabeth Cecil, Gonda Indological Studies, Volume: 21, Open Access, Brill 2020
• Holy Ground: Where Art and Text Meet. Studies in the Cultural History of India, Hans Bakker, Gonda Indological Studies, Volume: 20, Open Access, Brill 2019
• Vedic Cosmology and Ethics. Selected Studies, Henk Bodewitz, Gonda Indological Studies, Volume: 19, Open Access, Brill 2019
• Universal Śaivism. The Appeasement of All Gods and Powers in the Śāntyadhyāya of the Śivadharmaśāstra, Peter Bisschop, Gonda Indological Studies, Volume: 18, Open Access, Brill 2018

Groningen Oriental Studies

• The Skandapurāṇa Volume V, Adhyāyas 96 – 112. The Varāha Cycle and the Andhaka Cycle Continued, Peter Bisschop en Yuko Yukochi, Groningen Oriental Studies, Supplement, Volume 6, Brill 2021
• The Skandapurāṇa Volume IV, Adhyāyas 70–95. Start of the Skanda and Andhaka Cycles, Peter Bisschop en Yuko Yukochi, Groningen Oriental Studies, Supplement, Volume 5, Brill 2018