Indology (and other matters)

at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Prof. Dr. Robert J. Zydenbos

http://lmu.zydenbos.net (July 28th, 2021)

(Klicken Sie hier für die deutschsprachige Version dieser Seite.)

Please expect that also in the winter term 2021/22, due to the persisting virus crisis, most if not all of the courses offered in the Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie will take place online.

These web pages contain information that is made available by Prof. Dr. Robert J. Zydenbos, professor of Indology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. His website at the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum is http://zydenbos.userweb.mwn.de, where several items among the contents here are linked.

The items of information on these pages are personal communications and recommendations; they are not official statements of the LMU.

Let us remember Samuel Paty (1973-2020)¹, a teacher who taught his pupils about freedom of thought and expression²

Contents:

• Courses offered by Prof. Zydenbos in the current summer term 2021

URL for the overview of the courses:

Older lists of courses:

• Courses offered by Prof. Zydenbos in the past winter term 2020 / 21
• Courses offered by Prof. Zydenbos in the past summer term 2020
• Courses offered by Prof. Zydenbos in the past winter term 2019 / 20
• Courses offered by Prof. Zydenbos in the past summer term 2019

Information for students:

• Information about the course “Introductory Kannada”, and as a PDF file here

URL for ‘Introductory Kannada’:

• Information about the course “Kannada für Anfänger” (i.e., Introductory Kannada, in German), and as a PDF file here, for students of Buddhist and South Asian Studies as well as M.A. students of “Cultural and Cognitive Linguistics”

URL for ‘Kannada I’ (German):

• Hinweise für den Gebrauch von Computern im Studium: Textverarbeitung (Tips for the use of computers in studies: word processing, in German) (dated: 13.09.2019)

• Hinweise für den Gebrauch von Computern im Studium: E-Mail-Verkehr (Tips for the use of computers in studies: the use of email, in German) (dated: 29.10.2020)

• Hinweise für den Gebrauch von Computern im Studium: Computerressourcen für Studierende an der LMU, und Computerwahl (Tips for the use of computers in studies: computer resources for students at the LMU, and the choice of a computer, in German) (dated: 25.03.2018)

Further information about the use of computers in Indology:

• Information about how to write Kannada on Apple Mac OSX computers (in German) (update: 18.08.2018)

• Information about how to write Kannada on Windows™ computers (in German)

• Information about how to write Kannada on Linux computers (in German)

• Information about how to write Indological diacritical signs on Apple macOS computers (in German)

Broadcasts about India in Bavarian Radio

For a selection of podcasts about topics concerning India (in German) see the webpage Sendungen im Bayerischen Rundfunk zu Indien.

– A small sample of the languages at our institute: what they look like

The languages on this sign can all be learnt at our institute: from top to bottom Kannada, Hindi, Tibetan (except for English: the university has a separate department of English for that). Besides these, also Sanskrit and Urdu are taught at our institute. The sign stands in Karnataka at the side of the highway from Mysore to Madikeri, at the corner where a sideroad leads south towards Bylakuppe, the largest Tibetan settlement in India.

After you have spent a while at our institute, you too will be able to read all that (photograph © R.J. Zydenbos, 2013).