The Faculty of Oriental Studies is home to a large and enthusiastic community of students and scholars working on the history, literatures, languages, politics, religions and cultures of South and Inner Asia, Our interests cover a very wide geographical range, from India and Pakistan to Sri Lanka, from the Himalayan regions of Tibet to Nepal, and range over time periods from the classical to the very modern. What we all share in common is the belief that the study of the histories, cultures and literatures of these regions are developed best through the medium of their own languages, modern vernacular as well as classical. We offer a wide range of graduate and undergraduate courses in these fields, which can be tailored to suit individual interests.

The Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies is a Recognised Independent Centre of Oxford University.

The principal aim of the Centre is the study of Hindu culture, religion, languages, literature, philosophy, history, arts and society, in all periods and in all parts of the world. All Hindu traditions are included.

A project of the Society for the Wider Understanding of the Buddhist Tradition

The Buddhist tradition is central to any understanding of human culture, social history and contemporary reality. As Asia rises and western interest grows, its importance is increasingly recognised. In the modern academy, it has been relatively little studied and understood.

Sanskrit can be studied at Edinburgh either as a full MA Honours degree or a joint MA Honours degree with Greek, Latin or Linguistics. In addition, both Sanskrit and the two general courses offered by the department (Indian Civilisation 1 and Indian Religion and Philosophy 2) can be included in curricula for the MA General degree, while courses are alo provided in Hinduism and Buddhism at Honours level for the Religious Studies degree. In addition, the department manages and contributes to a modern- oriented course, South Asian Studies 2. Avestan, Pali and Prakrit are taught in third and fourth year as components of the single Sanskrit honours degree.

Asian Studies was founded at the University of Manitoba in 1988. We offer both undergraduate Major and Minor degrees in Asian Studies. The Centre offers language instruction in Mandarin, Japanese, Hindu-Urdu and Sanskrit. As a rapidly growing unit we are able to provide students a good variety of courses for the study of Asia. No longer is Asia an exotic, far-away locale; it is part of our everyday world and it will be a major force in the future of all of us.

The Department of Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures, formerly called "Modern Indology", is devoted to the study of South Asia. "South Asia" denotes the Indian subcontinent, i.e. the area that was historically known as "India", and is today home to over 1.5 billion people, i.e. one fifth of the world's population. India is by far the largest country in South Asia, followed by Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldive Islands. Afghanistan is also at times counted as a part of South Asia and has recently acknowledged its belonging to this region. South Asia comprises a great variety of different cultures, ethnic groups and religions, and one of its most remarkable characteristics is its diversity of languages.

The Philipps University of Marburg was founded in 1527 and although Sanskrit was taught in 1845 full-time Indology in the true sense of the term has been active since 1853.

Sanskrit was started in Marburg in 1845 by Johannes Gildemeister (1812-1890) when he was appointed Professor of Protestant Theology and Oriental Languages. Gildemeister was a versatile scholar equally at home in Semitic and Sanskrit studies. He is especially remembered for his 1841 edition of Kālidāsa's Meghadūta and Śṛṅgāratilaka, with a Latin glossary, and his reference book for old Sanskrit prints.

Since WS 2007/08 Indology and Tamil Studies can be studied as a part of the new Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) undergraduate program Kulturen und Gesellschaften Asiens (KUGA). Since WS 2008/09 the Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies offers the Master of Arts (M.A.) graduate program Indien-Studien.

The Institute of Indian Studies of the University of Groningen was founded in 1953 by Professor Dr Jacob Ensink (1921), who had succeeded Johanna E. van Lohuizen-de Leeuw as lecturer in 1951. Ensink held the chair of Sanskrit, which was newly established in the Faculty of Arts in 1962, until 1983. Ensink passed away at the age of 84 on 19 September 2005.

Earlier, Sanskrit had been accommodated to one of the chairs in the Faculty of Arts. The first to teach Sanskrit in Groningen was Barend Sijmons (1881), professor of comparative linguistics and germanic languages. From 1889 to 1903 Sanskrit was taught by Jacob Samuel Speyer, professor of Latin. During his Groningen professorship Speyer published his translation of the Jatakamala and his famous Vedische und Sanskrit Syntax in the Grundriss der Indo-arischen Philologie.
In 1996 the J. Gonda Foundation of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) endowed the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the University of Groningen with the present chair, which is committed to The History of Hinduism in the Sanskrit Tradition and Indian Philosophy. It is held by Dr Hans T. Bakker (1948).
Indian Studies in Groningen is committed to three faculties. Courses of Sanskrit, Sanskrit literature and Indian cultural history are given in the Faculty of Arts. Courses of the history of Indian philosophy are given in the Faculty of Philosophy, while Indian religion courses (Hinduism and Buddhism) are given in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies.

The Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages offers a broad selection of courses related to the history of culture, the history of religion, theatre, as well as regional studies focusing on Asia, the Middle East, and Africa - and the languages of these regions. Additionally, the Department offers a range of interdisciplinary courses as well as a program in continuing education.

The subjects offered are divided into academic programs, particularly culture studies and the history of ideas, religious studies, Asian and African studies and languages.

The Bachelor of Arts in Indology aims at giving students a basic command of the Sanskrit and Pali languages as well as basic theoretical knowledge of important aspects of Indian society, history, culture and languages. The student is required to be familiar with methodological aspects of the academic study of Indian society, history, culture and language. The student must independently be able to seek knowledge about India and to communicate it to the public.

The courses offered at the Department of Oriental Languages and Civilisations aim at a wide knowledge of the Indian civilisation, including the extensions of that civilisation outside the Indian subcontinent, mainly in Tibet and in the Far-East. The teaching is primarily based on philological study of original texts, presupposing a knowledge of the languages in which these texts were composed. The texts are situated in their context by analysing their historical, social, cultural, religious, philosophical or literary aspects. They focus on systems of thought, religious traditions and sciences of the Indian subcontinent, as well as on Indian Buddhism and its developments elsewhere in Asia (mainly Tibetan, Chinese or Japanese Buddhism). The Department encourages interdisciplinarity and collaborates actively with the Interfaculty Department of the History and Study of Religions (DIHSR).

The Research Institute for the Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) is the first institution to be designated as an Inter-University Institution in humanities and social sciences in Japan. The mission of Inter-University Institutions is to promote multi-disciplinary research by means of providing research materials and facilities for scholars who belong to various universities and institutions of the country.

Indology has the longest history among the departments at the Institute of Oriental Philology. Lectures in Sanskrit had been started here already in the sixties in XIX century and soon in 1893 a regular chair for Sanskrit had been established. The modern Department of Indology offers professional education in civilisations, cultures and languages of South Asia, and particularly so in the linguistic areas of Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu (soon also in Tamil and Malayalam) which transcend political boundaries of modern India. A wide and variegated range of subjects pertaining to and expressed in those languages fall within the scope of our education and research programmes: literary and religious traditions, the world of manuscripts written on palm leaves as well as modern topics in literary criticism, textual and linguistic studies , systems of ancient knowledge, history as well as contemporary social and economic problems of South Asia, patterns of regional culture, architecture, theatre and performing arts of India. The staff of the Department coordinates and contributes to several international research projects and cooperation schemes. We publish Cracow Indological Studies.

The tradition of teaching and scholarship on South Asian topics, known as Indology, at University of Warsaw began in 1918 when Sanskrit became one of the subjects in the University curricula. The formal beginnings of the Department, however, should be linked to Prof. Stanisław Schayer, the founding father not only of the Institute of Oriental Studies but also of its Indological Seminar (1932). Its activities, suspended so soon after the outbreak of the Second World War, were resumed only in 1953 and Prof. Eugeniusz Słuszkiewicz appointed as its Head. At present, the Chair counts as the leading centre for South Asian studies in Poland.