JAN WESTERHOFF
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SOME LECTURE RECORDINGS

2020 Annual lecture of the British Society for the History of Philosophy  on Solipsism in Ancient Indian Philosophy. [link]

A set of lectures based on "The Non-Existence fo the Real World" from 2019. [link]

A set of five lectures based on "The Golden Age of Buddhist Philosophy in India" from 2019. [link]

Interview on Nāgārjuna for Peter Adamson’s podcast History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps from 2017. [link]

Introductory remarks for the symposium on "The New Madhyamaka", Oxford, 2015. [link]

"What kind of philosophical theory is Madhyamaka?", 2014 Majewski lecture, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. [link]

A contribution to the symposium on "Contemporary Perspectives on Buddhist Ethics", Columbia University, 2011. [link]
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A contribution to "Madhyamaka & Methodology: A Symposium on Buddhist Theory and Method", Smith College, 2010. [link]
  • [This symposium addressed the question of how to read and interpret Buddhist Madhyamaka texts, extending a conversation begun in two seminal articles — one by C. W. “Sandy” Huntington, Jr. and the other by Jay Garfield.]
"Madhyamaka and ontological categories", lecture at the 2009 Shivdasani conference, Somerville College, Oxford. [link]


RATNAKĪRTI READING CLASS

The Sanskrit reading class on Ratnakīrti’s Santānāntaraduṣaṇa will be taking place in Trinity 2023. We will meet every Tuesday during term time from 16.15 to 17.15 in the Faith Boardman Room at Lady Margaret Hall. The first meeting will be on Tuesday, 25th April 2023.

Electronic copies of the relevant files are available here.


SANSKRIT-TIBETAN READING CLASS

The Sanskrit-Tibetan reading class on Candrakīrti's Madhyamakāvatāra will resume in Michaelmas term 2023. 

Some useful online resources for this class include:

Tibetan and Sanskrit of Candrakīrti's text at Bibliotheca Polyglotta

Apte's Sanskrit Dictionary [link]

Monier-Williams Sanskrit Dictionary [link]

Edgerton's Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary [link]

Tibetan Translation Tool [link]

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