اطلاعات درس

Dear students, 

In this seminar (2 SWS plus 1 SWS colloquium), students will acquire essential knowledge about methods and sources/databases in the study and research of Buddhism and the contemplative traditions in India and Tibet. We will address historical-philological, text-critical, (global) religious studies, and regional studies approaches and discuss selected critical aspects, such as of gender, emic-etic distinctions, and archival and field work to cover the diversity of the three different foci of our M.A. program (without language skills/with language skills, interdisciplinary/with language skills, philological focus). In addition, as a preparation for the individual research and writing of the M.A. thesis, approaches in scholarly academic writing will be discussed and practiced together.