Academic Sanskrit Studies around the World

India

http://www.sanskrit.nic.in/sans.htm

Sanskrit Universities

 

Academy of Sanskrit Research
Located in Melkote

French Institute, Pondicherry

General Listing of Indian Universities
Links to various Indian universities

IGNCA
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts

Institute of Asian Studies
Located in Chennai

Department of Sanskrit and Prakrit Languages
Pune University

Centre of Advanced Study in Sanskrit, Pune


North America

El Colegio de Mexico

Center for Asian and African Studies

Brown University

Classics Department

 

Columbia University

Dept of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures

 

Concordia University, Canada
Classics Department

 

Cornell University

South Asia Program

 

Emory University

Language Center

 

John Hopkins University

Language Teaching Center

Harvard University
Sanskrit and Indian Studies

Indiana University
India Studies

 

McGill University, Canada
Religious Studies Department

 

McMaster University, Canada
Religious Studies Department

 

Ohio State University

 

Rutgers University

South Asian Studies Program

 

SUNY at Stony Brook, NY

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

 

University of Alabama

Critical Languages Center

 

University of British Columbia, Canada

Centre for India and South Asian Research

University of Calgary, Canada
Philosophy Department

University of California at Santa Barbara

Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies

University of California at Berkeley
South and Southeast Asian Studies

University of Chicago
Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations

University of Colorado at Boulder (In conjunction with Naropa University)

Department of Religious Studies

 

University of Florida

Center for the study of Hindu Traditions

 

University of Hawaii

Center for South Asian Studies

 

University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne

Department of Linguistics

 

University of Iowa

Department of Asian Languages and Literature

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Asian Languages and Cultures

University of Pennsylvania
Department of South Asia Studies

University of Pittsburgh
Indo-Pacific Council

University of Saskatchewan
Religious Studies

University of South Florida
Religious Studies

University of Texas at Austin
Asian Studies

University of Toronto

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

University of Virginia
Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

University of Wisconsin at Madison
Languages and Cultures of Asia

Washington and Lee University

East Asian Studies Program

 

Yale University

Department of Linguistics

 


Australia

Australian National University (in conjunction with Sydney University)
South Asia Centre

La Trobe University
Asian Studies

University of Queensland

Centre for Buddhist Studies

 

University of Sydney
Indian Studies


Europe

 Austria

Vienna University
Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde Universitt Wien (ISTB)
Institut für Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens

Belgium

Gent University

Louvain University

Oriental Institute

Denmark

University of Copenhagen
Asian Studies

Finland

University of Helsinki

Institute for Asian and African Studies

France

Université Paris (Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Université de Lyon

Université de Lille

Université de Provence

Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes

EHESS

 

Germany

German Indology Website

Berlin (Freie Universität)
Indian Studies

Bonn University
Indian Studies

Freiburg University
Oriental Studies

Göttingen University
Indian and Buddhist Studies

Halle University
Indological Studies

Hamburg University
Indian and Tibetan Studies

Heidelberg University
Classical Indian Studies

Kiel University

Köln University
Indology and Tamil Studies

Leipzig University
Indology

Mainz University
Indology

Marburg University
Indology

München University
Indology

Münster University
Indology

Tübingen University
Indian Studies/ Comparative Religion

Würzburg University
Indology

Great Britain

Cambridge University
Oriental Studies

Edinburgh University
Asian Studies

London University
Oriental & African Studies

Oxford University
Oriental Studies

Italy

University of Bologna
Oriental Studies

University of Rome
Oriental Studies

State University, Milan

Catholic University, Milan

University of Venice

University of Bologna

University of Pisa

University of Rome

University of Naples

University of Cagliari

University of Florence

University of Palermo

University of Turin

The Netherlands

Groningen University
Institute for the Institute of Indian Studies

Leiden University
Kern Institute, Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies

Norway

Oslo University
Oriental Studies

Russia

Moscow State University
Institute of Asian and African Studies

Sweden

Stockholm University
Indology

Uppsala University

Switzerland

Lausanne University
Indian Studies

Zürich University
Indian Studies


Middle/Near-East Asia

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Institute of Asian and African Studies

 

Tel-Aviv University, Israel

East Asian Studies Department

 

Indian School, Oman

Department of Sanskrit


Far-East Asia

Beijing University

Center for Indian Studies

Kyoto University, Japan
Department of Indology

And over 40 more universities across Japan…

Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Mahidol University, Thailand

Buddhist Studies, Department of Humanities

 

Silpakorn University, Thailand

Sanskrit Study Centre

 

Thammasat University, Thailand

India Studies Centre

 

 


Summer Courses

Summer Sanskrit courses are currently offered at:

University of Chicago (Second Year Sanskrit)

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for South Asia (SASLSI: First Year Sanskrit)

American Institute of Indian Studies
Sanskrit in Pune, India


Tools and Materials for Home-Study

The American Sanskrit Institute
A non-academic institution offering weekend and residential immersion courses

California Institute of Integral Studies
Lectures, workshops, and trainings by the many Eastern and Western teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Devanagari Script
Learn the Devanagari script used for writing Hindi and Sanskrit.

Hindu University of America

Intelligent Internet Ready Languages
iLEAP
Version 2 uses Indian languages to exchange e-mail and fax messages, present web pages, and perform desktop publishing.

Mailing List to Learn Sanskrit  
A mailing list called "sanskrit" to assist in the learning of Sanskrit through simple sentences.

Samskrita Bharati
Speak Sanskrit Movement.

Samskrt.com
Web-based Sanskrit learning site.

Sanskrit Declensions (Site in German)

Sanskrit Documents

Sanskrit Grammarian
Declension site run by Gérard Huet.

Sanskrit Library
Maintained by Peter M. Scharf, Brown University.

Sanskrit on the Radio
Within its Hindi Programme Deutsche Welle opens fortnightly a very special window: the Sanskrit-Programme.

Sanskrit Tutor
Sanskrit Tutor is based on the Level 1 Sanskrit course taught by Dr. Sarasvati Mohan of the Sanskrit Academy.

Sanskrit Word Declensions
This is a set of qdatr files used for forming Sanskrit word declensions.

The Titus Project


(Adapted and expanded from Dr. Gudrun Buhnemann’s website at University of Wisconsin-Madison)


This page has been mentioned in Times of India, Hindustan Times and several other Indian newspapers. It has also been added to Sanskrit page at Wikipedia.


Home