Since 1992, the Foundation has financed projects, fellowships and publications of scientific writings and reissues of existing works. In addition, it organizes the Gonda Lecture every year, which is also published.
Since 1992, the Foundation has financed projects, fellowships and publications of scientific writings and reissues of existing works. In addition, it organizes the Gonda Lecture every year, which is also published.
2023
Charlotte Schmid: The Aśokan Breakthrough
2022
Dominic Goodall: Kālidāsa’s Kingship among the Khmers
2022
Upinder Singh: Inscribing power on the realm: Royal ideology and religious policy in India c. 200 BCE-300 CE
2019
James Fitzgerald: The Mahābhārata: The Epic of the Greater Good
2018
Madhav Deshpande: From Pāṇini to Patañjali and Beyond: Development of religious motifs in Sanskrit grammar
2017
Harunaga Isaacson: Speaking (and Writing) of Secrets: The Esoteric in Classical Sanskrit Traditions (geen pdf)
2016
Hans Bakker: Monuments of Hope, Gloom, and Glory in the Age of the Hunnic Wars
2015
Richard Salomon: Siddham across Asia: How the Buddha learned his ABC
2014
Phyllis Granoff: A Space for Tolerance: Responses to Other Religious Groups in Medieval Indian Literature
2013
D. Shulman: Muttusvāmi Dīkṣitar and the Invention of Modern Carnatic Music (published lecture)
2012
Robert L. Brown: Carrying Buddhism. The role of metal icons in the spread and development of Buddhism (published lecture)
2011
Harry Falk: Commagene and the cult of Mithras Underestimated factors in Kushan royal self-esteem
2010
Stephanie Jamison: I Make New the Song Born of Old '. A Rig Veda for the New Millennium'
2009
Gérard Fussman: Revisiting the history of Ancient India: the need for a new vision
2008
Sanjay Subrahmanyam: Revisiting Talikota (1565): A battle, its context, and its echoes
2007
Susan L. Huntington: Lay Ritual in the Early Buddhist Art of India (former title Art as Text, Art as Document: Understanding Buddhism through Art)
2006
Alexis Sanderson: Saivism and Brahmanism in the Early Medieval Period
2005
Monika Horstmann: Visions of Kingship in the Twilight of Mughal Rule (published lecture)
2004
S. Pollock: The ends of man at the end of premodernity
2003
Ernst Steinkellner: Tale of Leaves: On Sanskrit Manuscripts in Tibet, their Past and their Future
2002
Deborah Klimburg-SalterThrough the prism of history: The art of Kashmir as seen from Tibet
2001
J.P. Olivelle: Food for thought. Dietary rules and social organization in ancient India Ninth Gonda lecture (published lecture)
2000
S. McGregor: The Formation of Modern Hindi as Demonstrated in Early 'Hindi' Dictionaries
1999
J. Stargardt,: Tracing Thoughts through Things. The Oldest Pali Texts and the Early Buddhist Archaeology of India and Burma
1998
Johannes Bronkhorst: Why is there philosophy in India?
1997
R.F. GombrichKindness and Compassion as Means to Nirvana
1996
Heinrich von Stietencron: Hindu Religious traditions and the Concept of 'Religion': Consequences of Cross-Cultural Research
1995
Gananath Obeyesekere: Buddhist karma and Amerindian rebirth: an anthropologist's reflection on comparative religious ethics
1994
Richard W. Lariviere: Protestants, Orientalists and Brahmanas: reconstructing Indian social history
1993
Wendy Doniger: Masquerading Mothers and False Fathers in Ancient Indian Mythology
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