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  • Buddhist Studies
    • Research areas
      • The logico-epistemological tradition of Buddhism
      • Sanskrit texts from Tibet
      • Madhyamaka
    • Third party funded
      • Rationalising Tantra in Late Indian Buddhism: Ratnākaraśānti on maṇḍala Rituals and Tantric Spiritual Practices
      • Controversies about the Buddhist Path to Liberation across India, China and Tibet: Kamalaśīla’s Vajracchedikāṭīkā and the Bsam yas Debate
      • The first edition of the Pramāṇasamuccayaṭīkā’s Apoha chapter in Sanskrit
      • Rationality, meditation and liberation in Indian Buddhism: Kamalaśīla's scriptural commentaries in context
      • The Madhyamakāvatārabhāṣya. Unveiling the sixth bhūmi
    • Concluded
      • Dialectics, Logic and Philosophy in Indian Buddhism
      • The Nobles’ Truths in Indian Buddhist epistemology
      • Networks of Buddhist monasteries in Central Asia
      • Debate and rational argumentation in South Asian Buddhism
      • Buddhist literature in context: India, Tibet, China
      • Indian Buddhist epistemology and the path to liberation
      • Upāyahṛdaya
      • Bhāviveka's Prajñāpradīpamūlamadhyamakavṛtti
      • Ratnakīrti's Apohasiddhi
      • Twenty short Mahāyānasūtras
      • The perception of yogis
      • Jñānaśrīmitra's Kṣaṇabhaṅgādhyāya
      • Śaṅkaranandana's summary of the refutation of God
      • Ratnakīrti's Vyāptinirṇaya
      • Jñānaśrīmitra's Vyāpticarcā
  • Indology
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      • Tantric dictionary
      • Veṅkaṭanātha
        • Veṅkaṭanātha's Theology
        • Veṅkaṭanātha and the tradition of Pāñcarātra
        • Veṅkaṭanātha's Seśvaramīmāṃsā
    • Third party funded
      • Truth, knowledge, and metaphysics in traditions of Vedānta
      • Universals in Indian Philosophy of Language
      • Mapping piety, politics and power in early medieval Nepal
    • Concluded
      • Gāyatrī: Mantra and mother of the Vedas
      • Religion and reason in Vedānta traditions of medieval India: A South Indian critique of rational theology
      • Deontic logic
      • Veṅkaṭanātha's Seśvaramīmāṃsā
      • Perspectivism and intertextuality in Vidyānandin’s works
      • Meaning of the sentence in Indian philosophy
      • The Shivalinga cult on the eve of the tantric age
      • A Śaiva interpretation of the Buddhist theory of exclusion (apoha)
      • Fragments of Indian philosophy I
      • Language and action in early Brahmanical philosophy
      • Textual reuse in Indian philosophy
      • Philosophy and medicine in early classical India
      • Religion and philosophy in Brahmanic orthodoxy: Kumārila's Ślokavārttika
      • History of the Rāmānuja school
      • Erich Frauwallner and National Socialism
      • Fragments of the Nyāya school of philosophy
      • Forum for Asian philosophy
      • Rules of debate and grounds for defeat in ancient India
      • Dictionary of Indian epistemology and logic
  • East Asian Studies
    • Research areas
      • Chinese Buddhist philosophy
      • Historical development of Shinto
      • Research history of Shinto
    • Third party funded
      • The Ethics of Empty Beliefs: Chinese Buddhist Philosophy in the ‘Period of Disunity’
      • The Future Buddha’s Past Lives – On the Maitreyaparipṛcchā
      • Hanryō shintō
    • Concluded
      • Shinto-uke
      • Views of the afterlife
      • Life-cycle patterns in early modern Japan
      • Media culture in early modern Japan
      • Old age in the Japanese medieval period
  • Tibetan Studies
    • Research areas
      • Scholastic traditions in Tibetan Buddhism
        • Early Tibetan Madhyamaka
        • Epistemology, logic, and theory of argumentation in Tibet
      • Inscriptions in Tibet
      • Tibetan origin narratives
    • Third party funded
      • The dawn of Tibetan Buddhist scholasticism (11th–13th c.) (TibSchol)
      • The Jātaka inscriptions at Zha lu Monastery
      • Buddhist narratives and "Tibetan" ethnogenesis
    • Concluded
      • The burial mounds of Central Tibet
      • Phya pa Chos kyi seng ge's philosophy of mind
      • Historical and religious inscriptions in Western Tibet
      • Early bKa’ gdams pa scholasticism
      • RNgog lo tsa ba Blo ldan shes rab's biography
  • Interdisciplinary
    • Deontic logic
    • Global Eurasia
    • VISCOM
      • Aristocratic Families, Empire and Buddhism
      • The Sakya Monastic Network of Southern Central Tibet
      • Tantric Communities in Context
      • Communities of Scholastic Learning
      • Genealogical Communities: Kinship, Politics, and Ethnicity
    • Hermeneutics of religion
  • Research
  • Buddhist Studies
    • Third party funded
    • Research areas
    • Third party funded
    • Concluded

Third party funded

  • Rationalising Tantra in Late Indian Buddhism: Ratnākaraśānti on maṇḍala Rituals and Tantric Spiritual Practices
  • Controversies about the Buddhist Path to Liberation across India, China and Tibet: Kamalaśīla’s Vajracchedikāṭīkā and the Bsam yas Debate
  • The first edition of the Pramāṇasamuccayaṭīkā’s Apoha chapter in Sanskrit
  • Rationality, meditation and liberation in Indian Buddhism: Kamalaśīla's scriptural commentaries in context
  • The Madhyamakāvatārabhāṣya. Unveiling the sixth bhūmi
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Institute for the Cultural
and Intellectual History of Asia
Austrian Academy of Sciences

Dominikanerbastei 16
1010 Vienna, Austria

office.ikga(at)oeaw.ac.at

INSTITUTE FOR THE CULTURAL
AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF ASIA

The Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia of the Austrian Academy of Sciences is dedicated to long-term research on Asian cultures. 

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