This announcement may look a bit out of place here, since we may assume that all the readers on this list can already read Sanskrit, but perhaps this announcement can be passed on to others. Due to popular demand, I am repeating something I did many years ago: my course "Sanskrit for Philosophers". This time online.

This is a course for people who do not intend to become full-fledged Sanskrit scholars but who are interested in certain types of non-belletristic Sanskrit texts. The basic idea is that philosophical (scholarly, technical, etc.) Sanskrit is a subset of Sanskrit; this means that one need not master Sanskrit fully in order to read such philosophical writing. With just 2 hours of teaching a week, I had students in the past read parts of Śaṅkara’s commentary on the Bhagavadgītā on their own within 5 months.

Further details can be found in the attached PDF file. Applications until Sep. 15. Admission is limited.

Robert Zydenbos

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Prof. Dr. Robert J. Zydenbos / ಪ್ರೊ. ಡಾ. ರೊಬೆರ್ತ್ ಜೆಯ್ದೆನ್ಬೊಸ್
Institute of Indology and Tibetology
Department of Asian Studies
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (University of Munich – LMU)
Germany