Ukraine fights also for us

Indology (and other matters)

at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Prof. Dr. Robert J. Zydenbos

http://lmu.zydenbos.net (April 29th, 2024)

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

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 word убийца means ‘murderer’.

Please note: there are also decent and brave Russians, like Marina Ovsyannikova¹.

General remarks about Indology

General questions from students about Indology will not be answered, if the reader has not at least read this text² about the subject. Very recommendable is the article (in German) by Prof. Dr. Roland Steiner, Indologie?.³

Since October 1, 2023, I am retired from active service at the Institute for Indology and Tibetology. At present no new courses have been planned (yet).

Information for students:

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

• Information about the course “Sanskrit for Philosophers”, also as a PDF document.

• Reading list (German): basics of Indian worldviews (27.02.2022; list originally made on 20.10.2010 for a class in that winter term)

• 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”

• Literaturliste: Grundlagen indischer Weltanschauungen (Reading list: basics of Indian worldviews [in German], 27.02.2022; Liste vom 20.10.2010 zu einer damaligen Lehrveranstaltung)

• 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:

(The following three links about writing Kannada on various software platforms need updating, but do contain some useful information.)

• Information about how to write Kannada on Apple Mac OSX computers (in German) (update: 22.10.2021)

• Information about how to write Kannada on Windows™ computers (in German) (update: 19.10.2017)

• Information about how to write Kannada on Linux computers (in German) (update: 21.03.2018)

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

Broadcasts about India on Bavarian Radio

For an incomplete 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).