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Read more about event Mantras between Language, Ritual, and Materiality
Mon 06.07. 6 days
Mantras between Language, Ritual, and Materiality
EurAsia Summer Academy: Vienna Summer School on the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia

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Read more about event Principal Researcher with tenure option in Premodern Japanese Studies
18.03.2026
Principal Researcher with tenure option in Premodern Japanese Studies
The Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (IKGA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), Austria’s leading non-university research and science institution, is offering a full- time postdoc position as Principal Researcher with tenure option in Premodern Japanese Studies with a focus on Buddhism.
Read more about event Postdoc opening: Himalayan Connectivities
19.02.2026
Postdoc opening: Himalayan Connectivities
The Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (IKGA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), Austria’s leading non-university research and science institution, is offering a full-time postdoc position with a focus on “Himalayan Connectivities” for a candidate with an Indological background.
Read more about event Gerhard Oberhammer 1929–2025
23.12.2025
Gerhard Oberhammer 1929–2025
Mit tiefer Trauer geben wir bekannt, dass unser ehemaliger Direktor emer. o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gerhard Oberhammer am 22. Dezember 2025 in Innsbruck verstorben ist. Unsere Gedanken sind bei seiner Familie und seinen Freunden. || It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of our former director emer. o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gerhard Oberhammer in Innsbruck (Austria) on 22 December 2025. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.

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IKGA colloquium

Read more about event Yan Ma: Establishing the Buddha's verbal authority: Kamalaśīla's epistemological argument from Pramāṇabhūta to the fourfold veracity
Tue 12.05.
Yan Ma: Establishing the Buddha's verbal authority: Kamalaśīla's epistemological argument from Pramāṇabhūta to the fourfold veracity
Institutskolloquium (hybrid)
Read more about event Channa Li: From translation to scholasticism: Knowledge-making in Dunhuang Buddhism (8th–11th c.) – A project proposed to reconstruct the Dunhuang Buddhist intellectual history between 8-11th centuries
Tue 09.06.
Channa Li: From translation to scholasticism: Knowledge-making in Dunhuang Buddhism (8th–11th c.) – A project proposed to reconstruct the Dunhuang Buddhist intellectual history between 8-11th centuries
Institutskolloquium (hybrid)

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STTAR 27. Beijing, Vienna: Beijing, Vienna: China Tibetology Publishing House and Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2026 | Fredrik Liland, Jens Erland Braarvig, Kazunobu Matsuda, Jens Wilhelm Borgland (eds.)

Bodhisatvapiṭaka

BKGA 112. Vienna: VÖAW, 2025 | Lambert Schmithausen & Jonathan A. Silk (eds.)

Tilmann Vetter : Studies on Indian philosophy and on Buddhism

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Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens

Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens

Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens

Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens

Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens

Events

Mantras between Language, Ritual, and Materiality

News

Principal Researcher with tenure option in Premodern Japanese Studies

Postdoc opening: Himalayan Connectivities

Gerhard Oberhammer 1929–2025

IKGA colloquium

Yan Ma: Establishing the Buddha's verbal authority: Kamalaśīla's epistemological argument from Pramāṇabhūta to the fourfold veracity

Channa Li: From translation to scholasticism: Knowledge-making in Dunhuang Buddhism (8th–11th c.) – A project proposed to reconstruct the Dunhuang Buddhist intellectual history between 8-11th centuries

New publications

Bodhisatvapiṭaka

Tilmann Vetter : Studies on Indian philosophy and on Buddhism

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