Gnostic Spiritual Exercises in the Sāṃkhyakārikā
- Date: July 7th, Friday, 2023, 16:00 – 17:00
- Location: Room 303, SNUAC (Bldg. 101)
Presenter: Prof. Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette (Manipal Academy of Higher Education)
Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette obtained his PhD (2018) in Indian Philosophies from the Institute for Indology and Tibetology of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, in Munich, Germany, where he was a member of the Distant Worlds: Munich Graduate School for Ancient Studies, in the division researching on ‘coexistence’.
In 2019 he was invited as a Fellow Researcher in Leiden, Holland, after receiving a Gonda Fellowship, following which he moved on to Ghent, in Belgium, where he was awarded a prestigious FWO Post-Doctoral Research Grant.
He recently published his last book, titled “Dialogue and Doxography in Indian Philosophy: Points of View in Buddhist, Jaina, and Advaita Vedānta Traditions” (Routledge, London & New York, 2020).