In this seminar (2 SWS plus 1 SWS colloquium), students will acquire essential knowledge about methods and sources and electronic databases and research tools 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 topics of our discipline, such as of gender, emic-etic distinctions, (digital) archival and field work, and machine-translation and AI. We will cover the three different foci of our M.A. program: without language skills, with prior language skills/ interdisciplinary focus and with prior language skills/philological focus. In the colloquium, as a preparation for the individual research and writing of the M.A. thesis, students will reflect about, analyze, and practice different approaches in academic writing styles together.
- Trainer/in: Dagmar Schwerk